1 See Departments of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995.
Department of Labor Appropriations Act, P.L. 103-333, 108 Stat. 2539 (September
30, 1994).
2 See Department of Labor, Health and
Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1994.
Department of Labor Appropriations Act, P.L. 103-112, 107 Stat. 1082 (October
21, 1993).
3 The following countries were visited:
Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Portugal, South
Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, and Zimbabwe.
4 International Child Labor Hearing, U.S.
Department of Labor, May 5, 1995, Washington, D.C. See 60 Fed. Reg.
17089 (1995).
5 The following governments submitted letters
or reports to the Department: Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic,
Honduras, Kuwait, The Netherlands, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, United
Arab Emirates, and Zimbabwe.
6 International Child Labor Hearing,
U.S. Department of Labor (May 5, 1995)(Statement of the United Nations
Children's Fund)[hereinafter Testimony of UNICEF].
7 At the time this report was published, the
following countries had an IPEC program and signed Memorandums of Understanding
(MOUs) with the ILO: Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nepal,
Pakistan, Philippines, Tanzania, Thailand, and Turkey.
The following countries have requested to participate in the IPEC program,
but have not yet signed MOUs: Argentina, Bolivia, Cameroon, Central America
(subregional project), Colombia, Ecuador, Egypt, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela.
The following countries have requested to participate in the IPEC program,
however, MOUs are not yet signed and donors have not been secured: Benin,
Burkina Faso, Chad, Ethiopia, Guinea, Madagascar, Senegal, Uganda, and Zimbabwe.
8 Programs funded by the Bureau of
International Affairs (ILAB), U.S. Department of Labor, in FY1995, include: 1)
monitoring the removal of children from the garment industry in Bangladesh and
placing them in schools; 2) supporting programs in Northern Thailand to prevent
children from being lured into exploitative child labor and child prostitution;
3) financing a national statistical survey on child labor in the Philippines;
and 4) sponsoring an African regional workshop to formulate measures and
activities to improve working conditions of children on plantations. ILAB and
the ILO are considering proposals aimed at reducing bonded child labor in India,
and child labor in the footwear industry in Brazil.
9 Testimony of UNICEF.
10 Testimony of UNICEF.
11 See Delhi Declaration: Item 5.8
- Elimination of Child Labour, Annexure A (Delhi: Final Documents, Fifth
Conference of Labour Ministers of Non-Aligned and other Developing Countries,
1995) A-4. For the full text of the resolution, see Appendix E.
12 The countries profiled in the Department's
1994 report are: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Colombia, Côte D'Ivoire,
Egypt, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Lesotho, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Pakistan,
Philippines, Portugal, Tanzania, Thailand, and Zimbabwe.
13 The United States Government will provide a
portion of the funds through its contribution to the ILO's IPEC program.
14 See American Embassy-Dhaka,
unclassified telegram no. 3197, July 5, 1995.
15 See FBIS report dated June 27, 1995
containing translated text [on file] [hereinafter FBIS report]. The task force
will consist of five ministries: Labor, Justice, Agriculture, Industry and
Commerce, and Environment, Water Resources and Legal Amazon.
16 FBIS report.
17 American Embassy-Bogota, unclassified
telegram no. 7553, June 1, 1995 [hereinafter Bogota 7553].
18 Bogota 7553.
