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Child Labor

Resources for Healthcare Professionals on Child Labor

The Problem

Children engaged in the worst forms of child labor include those involved in slavery,  trafficking, forced labor, debt bondage and serfdom, or in work that is otherwise likely to harm their health, safety or morals.

The Resources

The resources in this section assist health professionals in understanding the diverse and potentially severe health impact of the worst forms of child labor.

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Should They Work or Should They Not? (Bahar, 2014)

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Is Domestic Work a Worst Form of Child Labour? (Gamlin; 2015)

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Social Norms and Family Child Labor: A Systematic Literature Review (Abdullah, 2022)

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Recognising and Healing Emotional Wounds of Child Labourers India and Nepal (Kaur; 2021)

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Human Rights and Health Disparities for Migrant Workers in UAE (Sonmez, 2011)

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Developing Global South Perspective Street Children Involvement Organized Crime (Sheppard, 2018)

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Global Estimates of Modern Slavery: Forced Labor and Forced Marriage (ILO, 2022)

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Challenges to Pre-migration Prevention of Human Trafficking, India (Pocock, 2020)

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Psychosocial impact of COVID on children (Ghosh, 2020)

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International labor trafficking: A neglected social origin of COVID-19 (Rojanaworarit, 2021)

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Human trafficking and labour exploitation (Kiss, 2019)

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Children at work, Modern Slavery India (Srivastava, 2019)

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Global Human Trafficking and Child Victimization (Greenbaum, 2017)

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A systematic literature review of the impacts of child labor on child’s health in low- and middle-income countries (Ibrahim, 2019)

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Child Labor, Gender, and Health (Leinberger, 2005)

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Child Labor in Global Tobacco Production: A Human Rights Approach to an Enduring Dilemma (Ramos, 2018)

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Child labour in low and middle income countries and its consequences for mental health (Sturrock, 2016)

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Child Labour in Arab Region (ILO, 2019)

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COVID-19 and Child Labour: A Time of Crisis, A Time to Act (ILO, 2020)

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The experience of violence against children in domestic servitude in Haiti (Gilbert, 2018)

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Ending Child Labor by 2025: Review Programs and Policies (ILO, 2019)

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Exposures Resulting in Safety and Health Concerns for Child Laborers in Less Developed Countries (Shendell, 2016)

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Findings on Worst Forms of Child Labor (US DOL, 2018)

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Global Estimates of Child Labor 2012 to 2016 (ILO, 2016)

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Hazardous Child Labor: Lead and Neurocognitive Development (Ide, 2005)

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The Health Impact of Child Labor in Developing Countries (Roggero, 2007)

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Labour trafficking: Challenges and opportunities from an occupational health perspective (Perez, 2017)

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Labour Trafficking among Men and Boys in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Pocock, 2016)

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Risk of mental health and nutritional problems for left-behind children of international labor migrants (Wickramage, 2015)

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Prevalence and risk factors for child labour and violence against children in Egypt using Bayesian geospatial modelling with multiple imputation (Khatab, 2019)

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Trends in child labor and the impact on health in adulthood in Brazil from 1998 to 2008 (Nishijima, 2015)