The report provides an overview of the child labor phenomenon in Uganda, its extent and nature, its determinants, and its consequences on health and education.

The current report provides an overview of the child labour phenomenon in Vietnam - its extent and nature, its determinants, and its consequences on health and education. The report also addresses the policy options for its elimination. The analysis considers the economics as well as the social...

Overcoming the twin challenges of child labour and youth unemployment will be critical to progress towards the Millennium Development Goals, as both can lead to social vulnerability and societal marginalisation, and both can permanently impair productive potential and therefore influence...

La présente étude, qui s’inscrit dans le cadre du Programme UCW au Mali, a pour but de fournir, d’une part, une vue d’ensemble du phénomène (son ampleur, ses caractéristiques, ses répercussions sur la santé et sur l’éducation des enfants) et, d’autre part, un panorama des...

La présente étude, qui s’inscrit dans le cadre du Programme UCW au Sénégal, a pour but de fournir, d’une part, une vue d’ensemble du phénomène (son ampleur, ses caractéristiques, ses répercussions sur la santé et sur l’éducation des enfants) et, d’autre part, un panorama des...

Child labour constitutes a key obstacle to achieving Education For All (EFA) and Millennium Development Goals in Mali and Zambia. It not only arms the welfare of individual children, but also slows broader national poverty reduction and development efforts. Children forced out of school and into...

El presente documento analiza la participación laboral de niños y niñas en Venezuela entre 1998 y 2007. El objetivo principal es establecer una aproximación cuantitativa de las formas de trabajo prohibidas en función de la legislación nacional y la normativa internacional. Las estimaciones...

Much has evolved in terms of our knowledge surrounding the child labour problem and effective strategies for addressing it since the last major conferences on child labour which were held in Amsterdam and Oslo in 1997. This report makes use of advances in research achieved through UCW and other...

This paper will provide a review of impact evaluations of policies up to 2007 relating to child labor prevention and protection. The aim of this review is to provide a summary of these impact evaluations in an attempt to draw some best practice lessons, but also to assess the state of art in...

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...