Child Labor
What is child labor?
See the ILO's definition and a selected bibliography of child labor.
ILO Child Labor Fact Sheets: Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.
ILO's Child Labour Stories.
Reports
- ILO's report on The Effective Abolition of Child Labor 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000
- The Department of Labor's 2005 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor: 2005 (USDOL, 2005)
- Global child labour trends 2000-2004 (ILO, 2006)
- The Apparel Industry and Codes of Conduct: A Solution to the International Child Labor Problem? (USDOL, 1996)
- Swept Under the Rug: Abuses against Domestic Workers Around the World (Human Rights Watch, 2006)
- A Future Without Child Labor: Global Report under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (ILO, 2002)
- Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNICEF, 1989)
- Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work: Value, Viability, Incidence and Importance as Elements for Economic Progress and Soical Justice (ILO, 2002)
Case Studies
- Indonesia: Always on Call: Abuse and Exploitation of Child Domestic Workers in Indonesia (Human Rights Watch, 2005)
- United States: Fingers to the Bone: The United States’ Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers (Human Rights Watch, 2000)
- India: Bonded Labour in India: Its Incidence and Pattern (ILO, 2006)
- Phillips: Phillips Extends Sustainability Expectation to Suppliers, Including Child Labor Ban (Institutional Shareowner, 2004)
- Cocoa Industry: Chocolate and Child Slavery: Unfulfilled Promises of the Cocoa Industry (ILRF, 2004)
- Firestone: Bridgestone/Firestone: Abusing workers and the environment in Liberia (Stop Firestone)
- Russia: Child Labour in the Russian Federation (ILO, 2002)
Monitoring Child Labor
- Benchmark and Summary of Non-Compliance Cases (Fair Labor Association, 2005)