SOCIAL PROTECTION MEASURES KEY IN FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOUR, SAYS NEW UN REPORT

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SOCIAL PROTECTION MEASURES KEY IN FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOUR, SAYS NEW
UN REPORTNew York, Apr 29 2013 1:00PMThe implementation of social
protection measures can play a key role in rescuing minors from
occupational bondage, a new report by the United Nations International
Labour Organization (ILO) has found.

According to the <i>World Report on Child Labour</i>, varying types of
social protection measures such as cash transfer schemes, social
health protection and providing income security in old age, can help
reduce the number of children around the world who are forced to work.
The ILO estimates that the phenomenon has trapped 215 million
children worldwide.

"This report contributes to a better understanding of the underlying
economic and social vulnerabilities that generate child labour,"
<"http://www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/media-centre/press-releases/WCMS_211472/lang--en/index.htm">said
Constance Thomas, the Director of the ILO's International Programme on
the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) which authored the report.

The report notes for example that Brazil's Bolsa Familia cash transfer
programme, which provides families with a monthly allowance to send
their children to school, has played a prime role in reducing child
labour in both rural and urban areas across the Latin American nation.
Likewise, the introduction of a scholarship programme in Cambodia,
which also involves cash transfers, has reduced child labour there by
10 per cent.

In African countries such as Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa,
Tanzania, and Zimbabwe, where 50 to 60 per cent of orphans live with
their grandparents, income security in old age plays an equally
significant role in diminishing the presence of child labour.

The ILO has estimated that more than 5 billion people, or around 75
per cent of the global population, do not have effective access to
comprehensive social protection. The figures largely contribute to the
vast numbers of child labourers around the world, including the 115
million involved in the worst forms of child labour, such as debt
bondage and prostitution, and the 15.5 million involved in domestic
work.

As part of Government efforts to fight child labour, the report
stresses that the extension of social protection, in line with the UN
agency's <i>Recommendation on social protection floors</i> delineated
in 2011, should form a key part of national strategies to tackle the
scourge.

In particular, the floors would guarantee basic income in the form of
social transfers in cash or kind, such as pensions, child benefits,
employment guarantees and services for the unemployed and working
poor, while providing universal access to essential affordable social
services in health, water and sanitation, education, food, housing,
and other services defined according to national priorities.

"Investing in social protection through nationally-defined social
protection floors is a crucial part of the response in the fight
against child labour, which also includes access to decent jobs for
adults and education for children," concludes Ms. Thomas.Apr 29 2013
1:00PM
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