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Hazardous Child Labour in Latin America (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
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Hazardous Child Labour in Latin America (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
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In order to bridge the lack of information on child labour and to
stimulate policy interventions the IREWOC Foundation (International
Research on Working Children) has undertaken action-based research
in the field of the worst forms of child labour in Latin America.
In 2006 and 2007 a comparative study on the Worst Forms of Child
Labour was carried out in 7 different economic sectors in Bolivia,
Guatemala and Peru focussing on the hazardous worst forms. The
central research objectives were as follows: * to map the working
and living situations of children who are working in specific
economic sectors and what the consequences of this work are for
their physical and emotional wellbeing. * to investigate the
reasons why these children are working in these worst forms
sectors. The research results were expected to give important
insights into the currently polarised debate between those who
state child labour is above all related to cultural considerations
and those who state that economic reasons are fundamental to the
phenomena of child labour. * to map the existing policy initiatives
for child labourers in the worst forms and to identify the best
practices. In the face of challenges imposed by achieving the
Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the UN, specific
attention was paid to educational initiatives. Is education a
useful tool in combating child labour, and vice versa, is child
labour a significant obstacle to achieving universal primary
education? Although the evidence from the various cases discussed
in the book illustrate positive trends in terms of the worst forms
of child labor, thousands of children were still found to be
engaged in activities that form a direct threat to their physical,
mental and moral health and jeopardize their education. This book
proposes several practical recommendations for possible
interventions.
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