International Labour Organization (ILO)

Family and Child Welfare 3 (3+0)

Lesson 44 : Role of International Agencies in Child Welfare Development

International Labour Organization (ILO)

The International Labour Organization aims at promoting social justice and peace. It has also focused

Action has included expanding support of non-formal education programmes, encouraging governments to implement comprehensive standards on the minimum age of admission to employment, making an extensive study on working children in Argentina, Greece, India, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru and Thailand, designing two projects on "Maternal Employment ' and the Basic Needs of Children" and "Children at World: Profiles from developing countries" and studying new programme orientations based on the 1965 recommendations on women with family responsibilities, maternity, protection legislation and its impact on children, migrant children's special needs of vocational training and apprenticeship schemes, and national measures to improve the conditions of work and life of children.

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