Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2010, published 100th ILC session (2011)

Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) - Argentina (Ratification: 2001)

Article 7(2) of the Convention. Effective and time-bound measures. Clauses (a) and (b). Preventing children from being engaged in the worst forms of child labour and removing them from such labour. Tourist activities. The Committee previously noted that a programme on responsible tourism and childhood had been introduced and that a brochure on responsible tourism produced to raise awareness among tourists. It also noted that a draft code of practice for tourism was being prepared. Noting the absence of information in the Government’s report on this point, the Committee requests the Government to provide information on the measures adopted and the results achieved in the context of the Programme on Responsible Tourism and Childhood.

Clause (d). Children particularly exposed to risks. Children of illegal migrant families. The Committee previously requested the Government to provide information on the time-bound measures taken to ensure the application of section 143 of Act No. 26.206 of 28 December 2006 on national education and section 7 of Act No. 25.871 of 21 January 2004 on migration to ensure that the children of illegal migrant families have access to education. Noting that the Government’s report does not contain information on this subject, the Committee requests the Government to take the necessary measures to protect the children of illegal migrant families against the worst forms of child labour, particularly by ensuring their access to the school system. It requests the Government to provide information in its next report on the measures taken in practice and the results achieved in this respect.

Part V of the report form. Application of the Convention in practice. Further to its previous comments, the Committee notes the findings of the survey undertaken in 2006 on the activities of boys, girls and young persons between the ages of 5 and 17 years in the Province of Córdoba, which were provided in the Government’s report under the Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No. 138). The Committee nevertheless observes that these statistics do not cover the worst forms of child labour and do not therefore provide information on the number of children engaged in the worst forms of child labour in Argentina. The Committee therefore requests the Government to take the necessary measures to ensure the availability of statistical data illustrating the nature, extent and trends of the worst forms of child labour, insofar as possible, disaggregated by sex and age.