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Campaign launches child labour action plan

The 'Stop Child Labour' campaign has launched an 18-point action plan to help businesses eradicate the use of child labour at any point in their chain of production. The document, called 'Out of work and into school', draws on advice from unions, employers, NGOs and officials from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to provide good practice experiences and insights. The authors say the aim of the action plan is to combat all forms of child labour and focus on the link with the right to education, as well as to develop a policy of engaging companies in a process of planned improvement of all areas of their supply chain instead of simply withdrawing orders if problems with child labour are discovered. The plan explicitly targets child labour with the broader goal of realising labour right, the report says. Read more Photo: © Nruboc | Dreamstime.com « back