Which countries have yet to ratify In'l Child Labour Convt.s

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 12:51 am

Probably not the countries that you think.

Spoiler:

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/intera ... 35850.html

Poignant photos. Quite a few from Cambodia and SEA: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpict ... 52680.html

Sailorman · Post by **Sailorman** » Tue Jun 16, 2015 6:28 am

And Cambodia signed this? Obviously no one is enforcing it in Cambodia because young children are exploited all over the country.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 1:32 am

Sailorman wrote:And Cambodia signed this? Obviously no one is enforcing it in Cambodia because young children are exploited all over the country.

According to this report, despite the fact that the govt have ratified all ILO child labour laws, and that children's education in Cambodia is free, there is no minimum school-leaving age, or even compulsory schooling.
http://www.dol.gov/ilab/reports/child-l ... mbodia.htm

Compulsory Education Age No
Free Public Education Yes Article 31 of the Education Law of 2007 (31)

If so, this one of the few countries in the world where they are not even pretending to educate all children no matter what their background. I'm a bit shocked because I thought that it is, at least (supposedly), compulsory for Cambodian kids to attend primary school.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_leaving_age
(Wiki-link is a bit outdated, but gives you some idea about other countries.eg. School-leaving age in Bangladesh is given as 10, Cambodia as 0.)

vladimir · Post by **vladimir** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 7:41 am

It's a bit like Australia signing the UNHCR refugee statement.

Just for show.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 8:14 am

vladimir wrote:It's a bit like Australia signing the UNHCR refugee statement.

Just for show.

I guess so, but they're not alone.
(Cambodia I meant, but Australia too.)