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On 28-30 July 2012, Washington hosted the first International Conference on Child Labour in Agriculture. Some 160 participants, representing governments, inter-governmental organizations, trade unions and farmers organizations, cooperatives, non-governmental organizations and corporations from more than 50 countries took part in the three-day conference, organized by the Global March Against Child Labour,...

Sidi Bouzid is a Governorate in the central-west of Tunisia. It has a mostly rural population and agriculture is the basis of the local economy. With one of the highest unemployment and drop-out rates of the country, the governorate is also home to a high poverty rate (almost 20%). It became...

FAO and ILO have long cooperated on labour-related issues in fisheries and aquaculture. A growing area of collaboration is child labour. Children make up a large proportion of the labour force in fisheries. Children work as crew on fishing boats, as fish sorters, in fish processing factories, in fish marketing...

No child should ever be exposed to pesticides. Unfortunately, many parents who work in crop production are not aware of the hazard that pesticides pose to their children or alternatives to their use. The 30 participants of the training workshops organized in Sikasso and Niono in Mali early in June...