The International Labour Office’s (ILO) quadrennial Global Report on child labour warns that efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour are slowing down and calls for a “re-energized” global campaign to end the practice. According to Accelerating action against Child Labour, the global number of child labourers had declined from 222 million to 215 million, or 3 percent, over the period 2004-2008, representing a “slowing down of the global pace of reduction.”
Launched to coincide with The Hague Global Child Labour Conference held in The Netherlands from 10-11 May, the report expresses concern that the global economic crisis could “further brake” progress toward the goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016, a target set by the ILO’s 2006 Global Action Plan. (...)
The article:
http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article=2428
The Report:
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/documents/publication/wcms_126752.pdf
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