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Conference on project to end child labour

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs held a conference on April 23 to gather ideas for a project to better prevent child labour in 2019-2020.
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HCM City (VNA) – The International LabourOrganisation (ILO) and the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Labour, Invalids andSocial Affairs held a conference on April 23 to gather ideas for a project to betterprevent child labour in 2019-2020.

According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Labour,Invalids and Social Affairs, 1,490 children in the city are benefiting from theproject, most of them child workers.

The project provides various services to the children andtheir parents, applying measures to prevent child sexual abuse and childlabour. However, the number of children benefiting from the project remainsmodest.

Chung Hung Ban, deputy head of the department’s Office forChildren Protection, Care and Gender Equality, explained that supporting childworkers is difficult due to the uncooperative attitude of their employers aswell as obstacles in their residential status.

A survey by the ILO of child workers in Vietnam showed 34percent of the children work more than 42 hours per week, while 23 percent ofthem have no idea of how to deal with employers’ violations of labour laws.

Bui Van Dung from the ILO said excessive working time affectsthe physical and mental health of children, while limiting their chances tostudy and seek stable jobs. Dung added that many surveyed children wantedsupport for tuition, studying equipment, vocational training, job seeking,insurance and psychological consultations.

He recommended that in the last period of the project (fromnow to June, 2020), it should strengthen communications on criteria to definechild labour, measures to recognise child workers and groups needing support,while raising awareness of labour regulations.-VNA
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