Bureau of International Labor Affairs (ILAB)

Appendix A: Selected Child Labor Measures Adopted by Governments

Country List	C. 182	C. 138	IPEC Member	Nat'l Plan for Children	Nat'l Child Labor Action Plan	Child Labor Sector Plan
Afghanistan
Albania	X	X	X	X		X
Algeria	X	X
Angola	X	X				X
Antigua and Barbuda	X	X
Argentina	X	X	X		X	X
Armenia				X		X
Bahrain	X
Bangladesh	X		X	X		X
Barbados	X	X	X
Belize	X	X	X	X
Benin	X	X	X	X		X
Bhutan	N/A	N/A	N/A
Bolivia	X	X	X		X	X
Bosnia and Herzegovina	X	X		X
Botswana	X	X
Brazil	X	X	X	X	X	X
Bulgaria	X	X	X	X	X	X
Burkina Faso	X	X	X	X		X
Burundi	X	X	X
Cambodia		X	X			X
Cameroon	X	X	X			X
Cape Verde	X
Central African Republic	X	X				X
Chad	X			X
Chile	X	X	X	X	X	X
Colombia		X	X	X	X
Comoros	X	X
Congo, Dem. Republic of the	X	X	X
Congo, Republic of	X	X	X
Costa Rica	X	X	X	X	X
Cote d'Ivoire	X	X	X
Croatia	X	X		X
Djibouti
Dominica	X	X
Dominican Republic	X	X	X
Ecuador	X	X	X	X	X	X
Egypt	X	X	X	X	X
El Salvador	X	X	X		X
Equatorial Guinea	X	X
Eritrea		X		X	X
Ethiopia	X	X	X
Fiji	X	X	X
Gabon	X		X
The Gambia	X	X
Georgia	X	X	X			X
Ghana	X		X	X	X	X
Grenada	X	X
Guatemala	X	X	X		X	X
Guinea	X	X	X
Guinea-Bissau					X
Guyana	X	X	X			X
Haiti			X
Honduras	X	X	X		X
India			X	X		X
Indonesia	X	X	X	X	X	X
Iraq	X	X
Jamaica	X	X	X
Jordan	X	X	X
Kazakhstan	X	X	X	X
Kenya	X	X	X
Kiribati
Kyrgyzstan	X	X	X	X		X
Lebanon	X	X	X	X
Lesotho	X	X
Macedonia	X	X		X		X
Madagascar	X	X	X		X
Malawi	X	X	X	X	X
Mali	X	X	X			X
Mauritania	X	X
Mauritius	X	X				X
Moldova	X	X	X			X
Mongolia	X	X	X	X
Morocco	X	X	X		X	X
Mozambique	X	X			X
Namibia	X	X	X
Nepal	X	X	X		X	X
Nicaragua	X	X	X	X	X	X
Niger	X	X	X
Nigeria	X	X	X		X
Oman	X
Pakistan	X		X		X	X
Panama	X	X	X	X		X
Papua New Guinea	X	X
Paraguay	X	X	X	X	X	X
Peru	X	X	X	X		X
Philippines	X	X	X	X	X	X
Romania	X	X	X	X	X	X
Russia	X	X	X	X
Rwanda	X	X	X
Saint Kitts and Nevis	X
Saint Lucia	X
Saint Vincent & Grenadines	X
Samoa	N/A	N/A		X
Sao Tome & Principe
Senegal	X	X	X		X	X
Seychelles	X	X
Sierra Leone				X
Solomon Islands				X
Somalia
South Africa	X	X	X	X		X
Sri Lanka	X	X	X			X
Suriname			X	X
Swaziland	X	X
Tanzania	X	X	X		X
Thailand	X	X	X		X	X
Togo	X	X	X	X	X
Tonga	N/A	N/A
Trinidad & Tobago	X	X	X	X
Tunisia	X	X		X
Turkey	X	X	X		X	X
Tuvalu	N/A	N/A
Uganda	X	X	X	X	X
Uruguay	X	X	X	X	X	X
Uzbekistan			X
Vanuatu
Venezuela		X	X	X
Yemen	X	X	X		X
Zambia	X	X	X
Zimbabwe	X	X	X

Sources: List of ratifications of ILO Conventions [cited December 2004]; available from http://webfusion.ilo.org/public/db/standards/normes/appl/index.cfm?lang=EN

IPEC action against child labour: Highlights 2004, October 2004, Geneva, 16 [cited December 2004]; available from http://www.ilo.org/public/english/standards/ipec/publ/download/implementation_2004_en.pdf

For more information on child labor action plans, please see individual country reports.

Countries with the N/A designation are not members of the ILO or the UN and thus are not party to the Conventions listed above.

While included in this report, information on the incidence and nature of child labor in the following territories is very limited, and child labor generally does not appear to be a large problem: Anguilla; British Indian Ocean Territory; British Virgin Islands; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Cook Islands; Falkland Islands; Gibraltar; Heard Island/McDonald Islands; Montserrat; Niue; Norfolk Island; Pitcairn Islands; Saint Helena; Tokelau; Turks and Caicos Islands; Wallis and Futuna; West Bank and Gaza; and Western Sahara. In addition, these territories are not members of either the ILO or the UN and thus are not party to the Conventions listed above. The West Bank and Gaza, however, is an associated member of ILO-IPEC.