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Article

20 Jul 2011

Author:
Alec Fyfe, ILO

[PDF] The worldwide movement against child labour: progress and future directions

This report...maps the evolution of the worldwide movement against child labour – how far we have come and the distance that we still need to travel if the goal of the effective elimination of child labour is to be attained...[and] is...particularly directed towards...governmental, inter-governmental and civil society actors engaged in combating child labour...The challenge in the coming years will be to revive the momentum of the worldwide movement around a common vision, goals and strategies...[particularly because] the ambitious goal of eliminating all the worst forms of child labour by 2016 will require accelerated progress...Employers’ and workers’ organizations have a particular challenge to better use their structures to integrate the strategic levels of the worldwide movement – local, national and global – and to form more effective alliances within civil society.