anti-slavery international and child labour

Anti-Slavery International is not a funding body, but works with organisations around the world which work specifically in the field of child labour.

Anti-Slavery International has worked on child labour since the early 1900s. We have been systematically working on child labour issues since the 1970s, mainly in research and international advocacy. Relevant ILO and UN standards underpin all Anti-Slavery International's work on child labour. We work collaboratively with other NGOs, inter-governmental bodies and trade unions, and focus on the worst forms of child labour and slavery-like practices.

Anti-Slavery International currently works in partnership with local partners on:

• Developing specific expertise on the subject of children in domestic service. This has involved: publishing hard evidence about the situation of child domestic workers in several countries; developing good practice tools on research and advocacy for use by NGOs and others at national and local levels; consolidating and building an international network of NGOs sharing information and expertise about child domestic work issues; and identifying and promoting good practice in programme interventions, particularly those which best protect child domestic workers from abuse and exploitation.
  
  
• Campaigning for the adoption and implementation of legislation in Gulf States prohibiting under 18s being trafficked and used as camel jockeys, and the prosecution of those involved.
  
  
• Increasing understanding and raising awareness of other issues, including children in the cocoa industry, forced child begging, and the health and psychosocial effects of the worst forms of child labour, particularly children in domestic service.

Anti-Slavery International also founded a Sub-Group on Child Labour of the Geneva-based NGO Group for the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and remains an active member.

Recent Anti-Slavery International publications on child labour include:

• Child Domestic Workers: A handbook on good practice in programme interventions
• Code of Conduct: Sub-regional project on eradicating child domestic work and child trafficking in West and Central Africa
• The Cocoa Industry in West Africa: A history of exploitation
• Child Domestic Workers: Finding a voice, a handbook on advocacy
• Child Domestic Workers: A handbook for research and action
• Do You Know About the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention?
• The Impact of Discrimination on Working Children and on the Phenomenon of Child Labour
• International Action Against Child Labour: Guide to monitoring and complaints procedures
• Report on an international workshop on child domestic workers
• Programme Consultation Meeting on the Protection of Domestic Workers Against the Threat of Forced Labour and Trafficking: Discussion paper
• Begging for Change: Research findings and recommendations on forced child begging in Albania/Greece, India and Senegal
• Forced Child Begging: A toolkit for researchers
• Forced Child Begging: Tools for an introductory training course on qualitative research methods