5 0 Billion Euros: Europe's Child Labour Footprint in 2019

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28 1957), including “(b) as a method of mobilising and using labour for purposes of economic development.”

C. Sectors and geographies with child labour practices In terms of economic domains, 70.9% of child labourers globally were engaged in agricultural work (108 million). The remaining child labourers worked in services (17.2%), and the others in some form of industry (11.9%) (International Labour Office, 2017a). In terms of regional differences, the African continent is home to the highest number of child labourers, as well as the highest number of children performing hazardous work (see Figure 4). While Asia and the Pacific trail in second place, in absolute terms they do not have far fewer child labourers than Africa. Figure 4: Child Labour and Hazardous Work by Region, Percentage and Absolute Number (in Thousands) of Children, 5-17 Age Range, 2016

Note: Bubble size is proportionate to absolute number of children in child labour and hazardous work in each region. Source: Global estimates of child labour: Results and trends, 2012-2016, (International Labour Office, 2017a), URL

Agriculture and industry are domains that have supply chains also reaching the EU: IPEC+ estimated that between 5-15% of child labourers are estimated to be working in global supply chains (ILO, 2017).


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Annex III – Examples of TSD Chapters

4min
pages 150-152

Bibliography

38min
pages 153-181

XI. About Development International e.V

1min
page 143

X. About the Authors

1min
page 142

3. Child Labour Monitoring Systems

1min
page 110

2. IPEC

3min
pages 108-109

6. Suggested carrots and sticks

14min
pages 127-132

2. Switzerland

2min
page 119

2. The Netherlands

8min
pages 114-116

C. EU Investment Protection Agreements

2min
page 121

B. Mandatory corporate due diligence legislation

7min
pages 133-135

5. Use of other measures to justify exceptions

2min
page 126

D. U.S. support for trade partners

2min
page 104

Instrument

7min
pages 101-103

3. List of Goods, coordination of enforcement

10min
pages 89-92

4. U.S. Trade Policy

5min
pages 93-95

2. Support through dialogue and cooperation platforms

6min
pages 98-100

1. DHS mechanism

18min
pages 80-86

2. EO mechanisms

5min
pages 87-88

B. U.S. trade policy enforcement vis-à-vis child labour

2min
page 79

6. EU trade sanction instruments

3min
page 78

5. EU “essential elements” human rights clause

2min
page 77

4. EU-UK Free Trade Agreement

2min
page 76

1. Morbidity and mortality of hazardous labour

2min
page 59

2. Stringency of child labour provisions

5min
pages 73-74

Dimension 2: Quality of the education system

5min
pages 63-65

3. Local impact dimension of TSD chapters

2min
page 75

Dimension 3: Government capacity

5min
pages 66-67

2. How could unconditional trade bans and sanctions lower child welfare?

2min
page 57

G. Laissez-faire vs. intervention

2min
page 58

4. Forced/indentured child labour findings

5min
pages 45-50

E. Factors of child labour

8min
pages 51-53

3. Child labour footprint findings

9min
pages 36-44

2. USDOL’s “List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor”

2min
page 27

C. Sectors and geographies with child labour practices

2min
pages 28-29

I. Introduction

5min
pages 20-22

2. Example child labour commodities

6min
pages 33-35

Executive Summary

17min
pages 4-13

Acronyms

3min
pages 14-16

II. Research Objectives

4min
pages 23-24

Foreword by Saskia Bricmont

6min
pages 17-19
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