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INTERNATIONAL ACTIVISTS IN LONDON
TO SEEK AN END TO CHILD LABOUR
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In the week of 20 November, child labour
experts from Africa, South Asia and Latin America will be gathering
in London to plan a strategy to ensure a new international law on
child labour will be implemented.
The International Labour Organisation's Worst Forms of Child Labour
Convention was adopted unanimously in June. Until now, only the Seychelles
has signed the new Convention, which seeks to protect children who
are working in hazardous or dangerous conditions.
The child labour experts represent local organisations concerned with
working children in Brazil, Costa Rica, India, Kenya and Togo and
will meet with London-based human rights organisation Anti-Slavery
International to ensure their governments ratify and implement this
new Convention.
The meeting also coincides with the 10th anniversary of the Convention
on the Rights of the Child on 20 November
On 14 June, 1999 the International Labour Organisation adopted the
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention. Its defines the worst form
of child labour as: all forms of child slavery; the forced and compulsory
recruitment of children for use in armed conflict; use of children
for pornographic activities; procuring or offering children for illicit
activities and work likely to harm a childšs health, safety and morals.
The Convention requires member countries to work with local organisations
in the development of programmes, which will eliminate the worst forms
of child labour and implement the ILOšs convention.
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The experts from India, Kenya and Togo are available for interview
on 22, 23 and 26 November.
All speak English as well as their mother tongue.
For further information, or to arrange interviews, contact the Anti-Slavery
Press Office: Beth Herzfeld on
Tel:020 7501 8937
or Mary Matheson on
Tel:020 7501 8934
E-mail: m.matheson@antislavery.org
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| 18 November 1999 |
PR/11/99 |
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