Effective Legislation Essential to Ending Child Labour " IPU, Please at least send an Telegraphic Message to the rulers of developing countries to let their people live in freedom and ensure their basic rights are respected, otherwise their downfall is written on the wall but in that scenario..these ruling elites will have to run away into their European and US heavens to live in exile"KAC – Greater efforts are needed to implement existing legislation and norms on child labour at national levels if the practice is to end, said IPU on World Day Against Child Labour on 12th June. Calling on parliaments and MPs, to be more involved on the issue, IPU argues that any strategy to end child labour and child trafficking has to include all actors, including the authorities, parliament, civil society, private sector, the public and the international community. The Organization has highlighted the need for agreements such as the International Labour Organization’s (ILO) 138 and 182 conventions on the minimum age and on the worst forms of child labour to be integrated into national legislation. More could also be achieved by putting in place coherent regional legislative responses to child labour and trafficking and ensuring their implementation. In West Africa, where countries such as Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire and Togo are taking national action, IPU has been working with the ECOWAS parliament on taking a more regional approach. A joint statement in 2012 included the proposition to work on a regional law to end child labour and trafficking.
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