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Bahrain - Child Labor

Indicators

The following indicators should be considered when conducting assessments of compliance (click on links for details):

Legal Framework

Government Performance

Overall Outcomes

Associated Factors

Sources

International Sources

ILO

Yearly data of Total and Economically active population, Employment, Unemployment, Hours of Work, Wages, Labour Cost, Consumer Price Indices, Occupational Injuries, Strikes and Lockouts: 1969-2002

This source provides estimates and projections for the economically active population by age ranges, including 10-14 and 15-19, disaggregated by gender. Information on methodology can be obtained in Sources and Methods: Labour Statistics (4th edition, 1996) athttp://laborsta.ilo.org/applv8/data/ssm10/smst10.pdf

This database supplies information on national labor administrations.

This source provides quantitative data on a set of 20 core labor market indicators.

KILM 1 provides data on labor force participation rates by gender and age group. KILM 2 provides data on employment-to-population ratio. KILM 3 provides data on wage and salaried workers and self-employed workers (by gender). KILM 4 provides data on the proportion of workers (by gender) in agriculture, industry, and services. KILM 5 provides data on part-time workers (by gender). KILM 6 provides data on the number of persons working more than 40 hours a week as a percentage of total employment. KILM 7 provides data on urban informal sector employment (number of people employed by gender and percentage of urban employment by gender). KILM 8 provides data on the number of unemployed workers by gender and the unemployment rate for males/females. KILM 14 provides data on educational attainment of population 25 years and older, including tertiary education. KILM 15 provides data on nominal and real manufacturing wage indices for male/female. KILM 18 includes data on poverty and income distr

Reports to the ILO Governing Body may contain information on country requests and participation in technical assistance projects.

International Labor Organization

Information on ratification status, Article 22 reports and comments from the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations.

This database contains information from governments, employers' and workers' organizations, that have a role to play under the Follow-up to the ILO Declaration and Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.

As part of the Follow-up to the Declaration, the ILO Director-General submits a Global Report on one of the four categories of fundamental principles and rights at work to the tripartite International Labour Conference each June.

Database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation maintained by the ILO's International Labour Standards Department. Records in NATLEX provide abstracts of legislation and relevant citation information, and they are indexed by keywords and by subject classifications. Each record in NATLEX appears in only one of the three ILO official languages (English/French/Spanish).

ILOLEX is a trilingual database containing ILO Conventions and Recommendations, ratification information, comments of the Committee of Experts and the Committee on Freedom of Association, representations, complaints, interpretations, General Surveys, and numerous related documents.

Social Watch

Provide qualitative information related to poverty, equality, and education.

UN Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF)

Statistical tables provide quantitative data related to poverty and economic development, gender, and education.

UN Development Program (UNDP)

Human development indicators provide quantitative data related to poverty, gender development, and education. Ratifications of core labor standard conventions are also provided. See also indicators on millenium development goals and technical notes.

UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

The Institute for Statistics collects quantiative information on education (access and participation, resources, literacy and attainment). See also metadata for source notes and definitions.

UNICEF

Statistics section provides a snapshot of economic and social indicators (from the State of the World's Children Reports).

United Nations

Includes State Party Reports and the Conclusions and Observations of UN Committees relating to the CCPR, CEDAW, CERD, CESCR, CMW, CRC.

World Bank

This database provides country specific information related to education.

This database provides gender-related information on health, labor force participation, and educational attainment by country and region.

National Sources

Bahrain Government Homepage

Bahrain-In-Figures briefly summarize quick facts and figures about Bahrain based on the Statistical Yearbook. This publication is produced annually since 1981.

Demographic, economic, and social characteristics, including work force participation rates and educational statistics by gender and general vital statistics.

Legal framework for Bahrain available in Arabic only.

Government, Bahrain

Potentially useful information.

Ministry of Education, Bahrain

Statistics include enrolment data, number of students per age, and teacher-pupil ratio.

Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Bahrain

Go to statistics section. Annual reports on labour market and training statistics are available. Data on employment and education (including vocational) are available.

Go to laws and regulations section. Labor laws include annexes on the regulation of employment of foreigners, regulation of employment of national workers, regulation of the employment of vocationally rehabilitated disabled persons, vocational training, employment of juveniles and women, wages, hours of work and holidays, conditions of work, compensation for employment injuries and occupational disease, Conciliation and Arbitration in Collective Labour Disputes, labour organisation, and labour inspection.

Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, Bahrain

Provides links to statistics, laws and regulations.

U.S. Government Sources

U.S. Department of Labor

The report describes the efforts of nearly 150 countries and territories to meet their international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labor.

U.S. State Department

Section 6 covers Workers' Rights, including "Status of Child Labor Practices and Minimum Age for Employment" and "Acceptable Conditions of Work

The annual trafficking report includes those countries determined to have a significant number of victims of severe forms of trafficking. The narratives provide an overview of the trafficking situation in the country and the government's efforts to combat trafficking. The narratives do not include extensive details, comprehensive information about the countries or their governments, or the extent of anti-trafficking activities undertaken by non-governmental entities.

Nongovernmental Organizations

Child Rights Information Network

The information network compiles information regarding the Convention on the Rights of the Child and child rights according to theme and country. Themes include child rights, armed conflict, disability, discrimination, education, health, HIV/AIDS, juvenile justice, macroeconomics, media, sexual exploitation, UN special session on children, and violence against children

Childwatch International Research Network

This NGO website compiles links to child research data and information on key institutions by region

Human Rights Watch

These reports detail the problem of child soldiers and make recommendations for solutions.

Country reports examine the most pressing human rights issues in each country. These differ for each country, as do the frequency of the reports for each country.

International Confederation of Free Trade Unions

Brief country-specific reports on issues of compliance with internationally recognized core labor standards.

The 2003 edition of the Annual Survey details violations of trade union rights in 133 countries during the year 2002. These violations range from provisions in national legislation which restrict legitimate trade union activity, through outright bans on freedom of association, to intimidation, wrongful detention, torture and murder of trade unionists.

Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

This database contains approximately 2,500 units of measurement on workers rights, extracted from approximately 100 public and confidential source documents including guidelines and questionnaires used by monitoring organizations, multinational corporations, and trade associations; public reports by governmental bodies and non-government organizations; public corporate reports; and others. Database provides indicators and source lists, but no specific data.

Social Accountability International

SA8000, a voluntary workplace standard patterned on those of the International Organization of Standardization was created in 1997 by the Council on Economic Priorities (a U.S. NGO), and is administered by another NGO, Social Accountability International (SAI).

Solidar

Updates include news snippets on trade and labor standards, with special attention to the role of the European Union in the WTO

Academic and Other Research

Gleditsch, N.P., Wallensteen, P., Eriksson, M., Sollenberg, M., and Strand, H.

The Conflict Data project at Uppsala University has collected data on all conflicts with more than 25 battle-deaths, internal and external, from the end of the Cold War.

Martin Rama and Raquel Artecona

The cross-country database presented in this paper represents an attempt to organize labor market information from a wide variety of sources in a ready-to-use format.

Understanding Children's Work

Child labor survey information by country, age and topic. Links to data or contact information to acquire data are provided.

Data are accessible by country for children's activities, health information, and working hours

Various reports are available on child-labor related topics



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