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To mark the World Day Against Child Labour, HREA suggests selected learning materials :

Fields of Hope: Educational Activities on Child Labor. Teacher's Guide
This guide includes eight lessons intended for ages 12-15. The lessons are intended to enhance students' knowledge and understanding of child labor issues internationally.

Hazardous Child Labor
One of four modules developed by the Child Labor Research Initiative of the University of Iowa Center for Human Rights (Iowa, USA), this module contains five lesson plans suitable for students in 5th grade all the way up to high school level. Each lesson is highly flexible and adaptable. Teachers can teach a lesson within 1-2 class periods to introduce the subject or fully integrate the materials into the classrooms throughout the year.

"How to Protect Human Rights?" Lesson Plan: Children's Rights in the UN System of Human Rights Protection
This packet familiarises the user with the human rights protection mechanisms that exist within the United Nations. Included in this packet are an instructors' text, fundamental UN human rights documents, a videotape and lesson plans for presenting the UN human rights system.

Study Guide on the Rights of Children & Youth
This guide introduces the main issues, international standards and protection mechanisms to protect and promote the human rights of children and youth.

Teaching for Human Rights: Grades 5-10
This manual is based upon unique program of curriculum development and research in Australia. It provides specific suggestions, proven in practice, of what to do and why for upper primary and secondary teachers who want to foster children's feelings of self-esteem and social tolerance.

International treaties on child labour and the right to education:

- Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)

- Simplified version of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

- ILO Convention (No. 138) concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment (1973)

- ILO Convention (No. 182) concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor (1999)

Useful links

Child Labour (ILO)

Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) - Child Labour

International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)

Right to Education Project - Child Labour

Links to other organisations involved in advocacy and protection against child labour

Picture: African girl selling peanuts by roadside (source: Roman Bonnefoy)