Give Girls A Chance: Tackling Child Labour, a Key to the Future.
- Document number
- 2282
- Date
- 2009
- Title
- Give Girls A Chance: Tackling Child Labour, a Key to the Future.
- Author/publisher
- International Labour Organization (ILO)
- Availability
- View/save PDF version of this document
- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- International Labour Organization/International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (ILO/IPEC), Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography,
- Summary
- The report draws attention to the international legal framework as it relates to child labour and children's rights, and specifically to the situation of girls. It identifies the reasons why it is so important that the issues facing girls engaged in child labour be urgently addressed: the hidden nature of many forms of girls' work; the special vulnerability of girls who face multiple disadvantages; the "double burden" of having to combine household chores and economic activity; and the huge indirect impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on child labour in general and on girls in particular. Chapter 1 also reminds us that almost two-thirds of the world's illiterate population is female. It draws attention to the value of investing in girls' education, and to the resulting benefits that accrue both to individuals and to society at large.
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