Child labour
Trafficked children and children working under conditions characterised
as worst form of child labour, such as child soldiers, prostitutes and
street children are not covered in standard household surveys. Fafo is
working on developing methodologies to approach these groups, both with
quantitative and qualitative methodology to provide data on their situation.
Trafficking
Fafo has carried out several projects related to trafficking in women
and children in various countries, i.e. Ukraine, the Balkans, the Baltic
States and Norway. Both qualita-tive and quantitative methodological approaches
have been applied.
Domestic child workers
Fafo has carried out specific studies on child domestic workers, a main
work arena for young girls worldwide. The phenomenon is studied using
both quantitative and qualitative methodology.
Child labour in formal and informal sector
Fafo has available data from the different Living Condition Surveys that
enable an establishment of a database on children working in formal and
informal sector.
In context
Child labour in context: Fafo usually collects child labour data as part
of multi topic surveys. This gives the analyst a unique opportunity to
grasp how child labour is linked up to social factors.
Conventions
Child trafficking is today recognised as a serious violation
of children's rights. Rights leading back to the 1956 UN Convention on
the abolition of slavery, slave trading and trading and institutions similar
to slavery. During the last 15 years there have been established three
new legal pillars that affirms the right of the child:
a) The 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
(CRC), where article 32 recognises the child's right "to be protected
from economic exploitation";
b) The 1999 Convention 182 of the ILO, which in article
3 (a) recognises child trafficking as the worst form of child labour (C182
comes in addition to Convention 138 on Child Labour);
c) The UN General Assembly, Resolution 54/129 of 15
November 2000 to prevent, suppress and punish trafficking in persons,
particularly women and children (The Palermo Protocol).
ILO
Convention 182
ILO
Convention 138
The 1989 UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Palermo
protocol
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