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Southern province acts to minimising children labour

The Binh Duong southern industrial hub has devised a working plan to implement its programme on preventing and minimising child labour for the 2017-2020 period.
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BinhDuong (VNA) – The Binh Duong southern industrial hub has devised aworking plan to implement its programme on preventing and minimising childlabour for the 2017-2020 period.

The ultimategoal of the programme is to discover and take timely measures to intervene and assistvulnerable children and illegal child labourers in accessing opportunities fordevelopment.

Theprogramme works towards the specific goal of enhancing awareness of administrationsat all levels, relevant sectors and organisations, employers, community,parents and children about policies and laws relating to child labour.

BinhDuong aims to provide training to all communal-level officials in charge of childcare and protection work, and strengthen the inter-sectoral working groups inthis field.

Theprovince will work to provide 65 percent of households with working childrenwith knowledge and occupational skills to get stable livelihood and ensure 65percent of employers who use child labourers will receive training in childlabour laws.

Accordingto the provincial People’s Committee, Binh Duong currently has more than425,000 children, of whom 7,000 children are from severely disadvantaged backgroundsand more than 3,600 children are at risk of falling into similar conditions.-VNA
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