Child Labour and Children's Rights

Key Resources

UN Data

A compilation of United Nations and agency statistics.

PAIS Index

Provides citations and abstracts to articles and other documents in the area of public affairs and policy.

Includes current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications.

Labordoc

The ILO's database containing references and access to full text.

World report on child labour

Annual publication from the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour. Child labour and social protection policies and research.

This guide brings together a wide range of resources related to child labour, children's rights and the international organization and government policies related to these topics.

Statistics

Statistics on child labour (UCW)
Child labour statistics (IPEC)
Child labour statistics database (ILO)
Global child labour trends (ILO)
OECD Family database
Social Development Data - includes child labor (World Bank)
State of the world's children (Unicef)
YouthSTATS (UCW) a global database on youth labour market indicators
Statistical Briefing Book: Youth Justice, statistics and data on juvenile justice and victimization

Canada

"A Canada fit for children" Canada's plan of action in response to the May 2002 United Nations Special Session on Children (HRSDC, April 2004)
Canada Labour Code and Canada Labour Standards Regulations - federally regulated employment conditions
Child and youth rights (Public Health Agency of Canada)
Children: The Silenced Citizens: effective implementation of Canada's international obligations with respect to the rights of childre; final report of the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights, April 2007 (Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights)
Federal labour standards and equity
Research publications of the Library of Parliament on Family, children and youth

United States

Child Labor a selected bibliography of materials in the Wirtz Labor Library Collection. (Dept. of Labor. Youth and Labor Information)
Child Labor Coalition
Child Labor Public Education Project (University of Iowa Labor Center and Center for Human Rights)
Child labor regulations, orders and statements of interpretation (Federal Register, May 20, 2010)
Child labor requirements in non-agricultural occupations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (Child labor bulletin 101, rev. Feb. 2013 (Youth employment provisions for non-agricultural occupations)
Children's Rights: international and national laws and practices with links to individual country reports (Law Library of Congress)
Combating Exploitive Child Labor Through Education in Bolivia, Cambodia, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia, Morocco, the Philippines, Togo, and Uganda (2007) research project funding outline with background information about each country. (Dept. of Labor. Youth and Labor Information)
Federal child labor laws
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (youth justice and safety)
Publications online including "Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor" (annual report from 2001 on) (Dept. of Labor. Bureau of International Labor Affairs)
Reducing Child Labor and Forced Labour toolkit (Dept. of Labor. Bureau of International Labor Affairs)
State child labor laws

International

Atlas of human rights: mapping violations of freedom around the globe
Case law database relating to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRIN)
Child Lives map (Pulitzer Center)
Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
Global March against Child Labour
Human Rights Watch Children's Rights
International Conference on Child Labour and Child Exploitation, Cairns, Australia, 2008
International Initiative to End Child Labor (IIECL) International child labor news bulletin
International Labour Organization
- ILO Research guides
- ILO topics: Child labour
- International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
- Marking progress against child labour: global estimates and trends 2000-2012
- NATLEX country legislation relating to child labour laws
- World report on child labour
Joining forces against child labour: inter-agency report for the Hague Conference (ILO, World Bank and UNICEF)
LRA Crisis Tracker: invisible children
Media Voices for Children Internet news agency for children's rights
RECOMMENDATION 1336 (1997)1 on combating child labour exploitation as a matter of priority (Council of Europe. Parliamentary Assembly)
Understanding Children's Work (UCW) The International Labour Organisation (ILO), UNICEF and the World Bank initiated the inter-agency research project in December 2000.
- Child labour interactive map
- Research papers
UNICEF
United Nations
- Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Alternative Reports are made available on the CRIN library: Documents relating to the CRC (Convention on the Rights of the Child)