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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...