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Commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. The ILO’s response

Document number
2027
Date
2009
Title
Commercial sexual exploitation of children and adolescents. The ILO’s response
Author/publisher
International Labour Organization (ILO)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Guidelines/Recommendations,
Keywords
Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Corporate social responsibility, Multi-stakeholder partnerships: Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems,
Summary
This brochure explains the ILO's role in fighting commercial sexual exploitation of all children under 18 years of age, a worst form of child labour specifically targeted for immediate elimination under ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182). It describes the principle characteristics of CSEC and the factors that make children vulnerable to it. The brochure also gives a concise review of how ILO Convention No. 182 can be a powerful tool against CSEC and the range of experience ILO-IPEC has acquired to fight CSEC and child trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation.
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