Without any doubt, the International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) - which was created in 1992 - is considered as one of the most ambitious program of the International Labour Organization.
The program’s main goal has been to eliminate the worst forms of child labour at all until 2016.
The roadmap adopted in The Hague Global Child Labour Conference (2010) somehow refined the aim into 'substantially increasing global efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labour by 2016. Then, the III. Global Conference on Child Labour (2013) faced the realities, saying: 'The global number of child labourers has dropped from 246 million to 168 million over the last decade. But even the latest improved rate of decline is not enough to achieve the goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016.' One year before the original 'deadline' it is not without reason to overview the current situation - this time from a special angle: what is about child labour in the so-called developed countries.
According to the public opinion child labour is deemed to be one of the Third World’s issues
far away from the everyday life of developed countries. By contrast, this article takes an
attempt to show how the elimination of child labour is going on in the developed world.
First of all, we introduce the relevant international legal sources of the abolition of child
labour. In addition, the article presents the IPEC agenda and its ambitions.
Subsequently, we intend to go on to describe the current situation concerning child labour in
the developed countries. This article considers the 28 member states of the European Union
and the members of OECD as developed countries.
Finally, we conclude the article with suggestions: how it would be possible to reduce and
eliminate child labour in the developed world.
To be continued.
A previous version of the whole study can be found here
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