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2017
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Child Labour in Emergencies: Introducing the New Interagency Toolkit
03 February 2017
The Toolkit, produced by the Child Labour Task Force, co-chaired by Plan International and the ILO, was launched in November 2016 during the Annual Meeting of the Alliance in Geneva.
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ILO’s Decent Work Programne makes progress in Uzbekistan
01 February 2017
Amid encouraging labour rights trends in Uzbekistan, the ILO has broadened its commitment to improve decent work and social justice in the country.
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New ILO Project Presented at Tripartite Committee Meeting in Tajikistan
25 January 2017
On 25 January 2017, the National Tripartite Committee for Decent Work met to hear a presentation of a new ILO Technical Cooperation Project “Combating Child Labour in Human Trafficking in Central Asia”, financed by the Government of Federal Republic of Germany.
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Lebanon seeks to adopt code of conduct and coordination mechanism to address working street children
13 January 2017
Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces, non-governmental organizations, Ministries of Labour and of Social Affairs organizations have developed a draft code of conduct and coordination mechanism to facilitate better coordination and methodologies to remove working street children from the streets and rehabilitate them in line with internationally-recognized best practices.
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Child labour
Philippines bolsters fight against child labour
12 January 2017
The Philippines ushers in the New Year with programmes to intensify its fight against child labour. These initiatives include a first comprehensive project on child labour with set up of helpdesks, a new project on child labour in gold mining, and a new child labour module in the conditional cash transfer programme.
2016
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A passion, mission - organizing waste pickers.
21 December 2016
During “The Potential of Cooperatives & the Role of Waste Pickers in the Recycling Sector” workshop in Ankara, Turkey, on 20-21 December 2016, ILO COOP spoke to Manuel Mateu an Engineer from the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE) in Argentina, about his work as an organiser of waste pickers.
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First Ever Peer Review on child labour in the Commonwealth of independent States to start in Kyrgyzstan
11 November 2016
The number of children involved in child labour in Kyrgyzstan fell from 32.9 per cent in 2007 to 27.8 per cent in 2014.
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Second anniversary of the Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean free of Child Labour
21 October 2016
The regional initiative, with its 27 member countries, will help to achieve Target 8.7 of the SDGs
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Back to school: Remedial classes for working children begin in Kyrgyzstan
08 October 2016
Three formal remedial classes for children with breaks in their education, school drop-outs and child labourers have started at the secondary school No. 94 in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek.
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Building a powerful alliance to end human exploitation
29 September 2016
ILO and Ford Foundation co-hosted the launch event of Alliance 8.7, a multi-stakeholder initiative on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Target 8.7