What are the areas needing attention?

UNICEF recommends the following:

  • Immediately end hazardous and exploitative child labour -- including bonded labour, commercial sexual exploitation and work that hampers the child's development
  • Provide free and compulsory education - ensuring that children attend primary education full time until completion
  • Expand legal protection - ensure consistency and implementation in mutually supportive ways
  • Register all children at birth -- to protect the child's right to have evidence of the child's age
  • Extend data collection/ monitoring -- gather and analyse globally comparable child labour data
  • Develop codes of conduct and procurement policies -- Corporations should adopt codes of conduct guaranteeing that neither they nor their subcontractors will employ children in conditions that violate their rights and then abide by those codes