Child labour is both a cause and a symptom of poverty. In its worst forms, it robs children of their health, their education and even their lives.
As long as poverty pushes some families to send their children to work, the next generation is condemned to the same fate. The ILO now has over a decade of experience of working with its constituents to understand the dynamics inside these households, raise awareness and show what can be done. Its efforts go beyond trying to stop children from working. The ILO promotes development by advocating adequate educational alternatives for girls and boys, access to income and security for their parents and stronger laws and enforcement mechanisms. In other words, eradicating child labour takes an integrated, gender-sensitive, family-centred strategy: children out of work and into school – parents into work and out of unemployment. This comprehensive approach is at the heart of the time-bound programme to eliminate child labour by a certain date. El Salvador, Nepal and the United Republic of Tanzania have launched such initiatives, and around ten more countries are preparing to make the same commitment to break the cycle of poverty and give our children hope.
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