Rachel Phillips Rigby, office of child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking, U.S. Department of Labour, Washington D.C., USA.
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Against this alarming background, the urgent need to address child labour specifically in agriculture and in its various sub-sectors was emphasized at the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour held in Argentina from 14-16 November and the resulting Buenos Aires Declaration on Child Labour, Forced Labour and Youth Employment.
The additional individual controls are: gender, education levels, marital status, number of children, labour force status, urban or rural residence, region of residence, an indicator for whether both parents are immigrants from different countries, and an indicator for whether they are from the same country.
These include: access to education and food; child labour and forced labour; physical and sexual violence; harmful traditional practices; early marriage; reproductive health rights; maternal mortality; cancers; menopause; and mental disorders.
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Child labour and forced labour were rife and wages regularly suppressed.
"There is nothing sustainable about palm oil that is produced using child labour and forced labour.
Slavery has been criminalised, as well as child labour, and "forcing a child to marry another person in exchange for a material benefit".
In addition, Mogherini's spokesperson explained that the commission and the European External Action Service were working to assist Thailand to deal with key labour shortcomings in the fishing sector, particularly in relation to child labour and forced labour.
