Ressources

This new Policy Briefing Paper, jointly published by Time to Talk and Young Lives, explores policies and measures to incorporate working children’s views in policy interventions.

This article examines the impacts of two large-scale cash transfer programmes in Malawi and Zambia on child labour. Both programmes increased children’s exposure to work in agriculture that may be harmful to them, yet resulted in positive impacts on children’s school attendance and material well-being. The results demonstrate some of the complex effects of increasing incomes in agricultural areas.

This ICI review analyses current due diligence and transparency legislation through the lens of the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights (UNGPs).

The Child Labor Cocoa Coordinating Group Annual Report is released on behalf of the signatories to the Declaration of Joint Action to Support Implementation of the Harkin-Engel Protocol, which was signed in 2001 by the U.S. Department of Labor, the governments of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana and the National Confectioners Association, on behalf of the international chocolate and cocoa industry.

Le travail des enfants dans les zones de culture du cacao est dû à une interaction complexe de facteurs sociaux, économiques et culturels. Ceux-ci diffèrent considérablement entre les ménages, les communautés et les pays. En conséquence, il est difficile de quantifier le travail des enfants. Les enquêtes visant à quantifier le nombre d’enfants qui travaillent sont complexes à administrer et nécessitent de vastes échantillons.