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Abstract :
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The latest ILO global estimates for the year 2012 indicate that both the share and absolute
numbers of adolescents aged 15−17 years in hazardous work is considerable, with 47.5 million
adolescents aged 15 to 17 years in hazardous work, accounting for 13 percent of this age group.
These stark numbers underscore the urgent need to address hazardous work among
adolescents. Hazardous work during this crucial period of young persons’ lives poses immediate
threats to health and safety and can create huge barriers that impede a young person from
transiting successfully to adulthood and working life. The policy implications are equally clear:
national policies should be directed towards removing youth from hazardous jobs or towards
removing the hazardous conditions encountered by youth in the workplace. Alongside these
efforts, removed youth and other educationally-disadvantaged youth should be afforded second
chance learning opportunities to improve their future prospects of securing jobs meeting basic
decent work criteria.
This Report assesses the degree to which adolescents are exposed to hazardous conditions in the
workplace, the nature of the hazards they face, and the sectors and occupations in which hazardous
conditions are most common. Differences between male and female adolescents are looked at each of
these areas, in order to provide some initial insight into the gender dimensions of adolescent
hazardous work. It makes use of surveys from the ILO Statistical Information and Monitoring
Programme on Child Labour (SIMPOC), national labour force surveys, School- to- Work Transition
(SWT) surveys and other data sources from a set of developing countries.
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Country :
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Niger, Sri Lanka, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Uruguay, Lao PDR, Ecuador, India, Vietnam, Honduras, Nicaragua, Jamaica, Zambia, Brazil, Togo, Cambodia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Moldova, Central African Republic, Yemen, Nigeria, Egypt, Guinea, Bhutan, Nepal, El Salvador, Kyrgyz Republic, Samoa, Jordan, Pakistan, Bolivia, Uganda, Senegal
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