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World Day Against Child Labour 2013
Ten million child labourers in domestic work
12 June 2013
To mark World Day Against Child Labour, the ILO publishes a report outlining the abuses suffered by millions of children working in family homes.
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World Day Against Child Labour
Malawi: Finding solutions for child domestic workers
12 June 2013
Millions of children around the world, mainly girls, are working in households other than their own, doing domestic work such as cleaning, ironing, cooking and looking after other children and the elderly. According to a new report on domestic work from the International Labour Organization, it's estimated at least two-thirds of these children are working under the legal minimum wage, or in conditions that are hazardous. Often, the working relationship between the child and their employer is ambiguous at best, exploitative at worst. But solutions are possible, even in a place where using children as domestic workers is a long tradition.
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ILO calls to end child labour in domestic work
12 June 2013
Marking World Day Against Child Labour, the ILO highlights the plight of children involved in domestic work in illegal conditions, because they are under age or because conditions of work are hazardous.
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World Day Against Child Labour 2013
From classroom to college – A champion for child workers
12 June 2013
When Farzana Hassan began teaching a handful of child labourers at an ILO project in Pakistan, she never imagined that, years later, she would have turned her classroom into a fully-fledged college for girls.
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"No" to child labour in domestic work
31 May 2013
The 2013 World Day against Child Labour (marked on June 12) is focusing on child labour in domestic work. Millions of children globally work as domestic labourers, mostly girls under 18. They are deprived of education, and endure harsh working conditions that leave them vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. However, an innovative ILO project in Indonesia aims to bring about a lasting end to this abuse.
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Labour standards
Paraguay ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention
09 May 2013
On 7 May 2013, the Government of Paraguay deposited with the International Labour Office the instrument of ratification of the Domestic Workers Convention, 2011 (No. 189). Paraguay is the seventh ILO member State and the third Latin American member State to ratify this instrument which, in accordance with its Article 21, paragraph 2 of the Convention, will enter into force on 5 September 2013, twelve months after the date on which it was ratified by two ILO member States.
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Labour standards
Bolivia ratifies the Domestic Workers Convention
18 April 2013
Bolivia is the sixth ILO member State and the second Latin American member State to ratify this instrument