CHILD LABOUR

i think ILO related convention are really helpful to have to understand the international regulation for prohibiting child labour. such as the Convention Concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour (No. 182) of 1999, provides protection against the sale and trafficking of children, the use, procuring or offering of a child for prostitution, for the production of pornography or for pornographic performances. Although child labour does not imply child prostitution and pornography Convention No. 182 includes child prostitution and pornography in the definition of the term “child labour” (Bakirci, 2007).

4.2.2 Other forms of exploitation and forced labour . Women and children are trafficked for the purpose of begging, street crime, shop lifting and drug transporting. Disabled and elderly men are also trafficked as beggers. The traffickers exploit them for their own financial gain.

The ILO Convention No. 182 provides that:

For the purposes of this Convention, the term the worst forms of child labour comprises inter alia the use, procuring or offering of a child for illicit activities, in particular for the production and trafficking of drugs as defined in the relevant international treaties (Art. 3 (c)).

Although child labour does not imply “the use, procuring or offering of a child for illicit activities, in particular for the production and trafficking of drugs”, Convention No. 182 includes them into the term “child labour”.

According to the ILO supervisory bodies “an activity does not need to be recognised officially as an ‘economic activity’ for it to fall potentially within the ambit of ‘forced labour”’. For example, a child or adult beggar under coercion will be considered as being in forced labour.

Although “work” or “labour” does not also imply begging or other criminal activities (such as street crime, shoplifting and drug transporting), the ILO Convention No. 182 and the ILO supervisory bodies includes them in the term “labour” (Bakirci, 2007) and identify them as among the forms of forced labour.