Technical Session 4 Child labour Endemic Countries: Challenges and Strategies.

Technical Session 4Child labour Endemic

Countries: Challenges and Strategies

• Link between poverty – informal economy and Child labour is world wide

• Important role of teachers (drop out of children) and teacher unions

• Poverty vs child labour and vice versa• Child labour is in all sectors• Child labour must be tackled in relation to

other themes like wages, etc. • Issue of wealth and income distribution as TU

strategy ?

Who is doing what when and towards whom ?

UN AgenciesRegions (Asean-EU-

…)National

governmentsRegional authoritiesLocal communities

Multinational companies National Companies Employers associations Micro economies

GUFNational federations- confederationsLocal unionsMembers

Individual objectives Society objectives

Good Governance

Corruption

No child labour

child labour

• Coordinate actions• Focus on collective agreements • Concrete actions – local community-

committee • Awareness – empowerment- change of

mentality vs change of behavior • Reward – punish

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