DUSHANBE, December 1, 2014, Asia-Plus – Tajikistan has approved the national program on the elimination of the worst forms of child labor designed for 2015-2020.
On October 31, 2014, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon signed a decree to implement the national program on the elimination of the worst forms of child labor in Tajikistan for 2015-2020.
According to the decree, Tajikistan’s Ministry of Labor, Migration and Employment of Population is empowered to coordinate actions towards the implementation of the national program on the elimination of the worst forms of child labor in the country
This document has been developed under technical and financial support of the International Labor Organization (ILO)’s International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC).
The International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (IPEC) is a program that the International Labor Organization has run since 1992. IPEC’s aim is to work towards the progressive elimination of child labor by strengthening national capacities to address child labor problems, and by creating a worldwide movement to combat it. IPEC’s priority target groups are children in worst forms of child labor such as slavery and practices similar to slavery, such as bonded child labor and children in hazardous working conditions and occupations. IPEC also focuses on children who are particularly vulnerable, i.e. very young working children (below 12 years of age), and working girl children.
