The issue of child abuse in developing countries is of utmost importance for designing policies directed to vulnerable children and aimed at combating the worst forms of child labour. Unfortunately there is limited empirical basis for formulating policies and programmes addressing violence...

The study begins by providing a profile of working children in Venezuela for the 2000 reference year. This snapshot of the situation of working children is then used to provide a basis for examining the impact on children’s work produced by the economic crisis which hit the country during the...

This report provides an overview of the child labour phenomenon in Angola, its extent, characteristics and determinants. It is based on the analysis of UNICEF Multiple Cluster Indicators Survey (MICS) 2001.