1999 Convention concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour

Worst Forms of Child Labor Convention / C182

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International Labour Organization (ILO)

Director-General of the International Labour Office

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19/11/2000

“Article 10

1. This Convention shall be binding only upon those Members of the International Labour Organization whose ratifications have been registered with the Director-General of the International Labour Office.
2.  It shall come into force 12 months after the date on which the ratifications of two Members have been registered with the Director-General.
3.  Thereafter, this Convention shall come into force for any Member 12 months after the date on which its ratification has been registered. “

“Article 11

1. A Member which has ratified this Convention may denounce it after the expiration of ten years from the date on which the Convention first comes into force, by an act communicated to the Director-General of the International Labour Office for registration. Such denunciation shall not take effect until one year after the date on which it is registered.
2. Each Member which has ratified this Convention and which does not, within the year following the expiration of the period of ten years mentioned in the preceding paragraph, exercise the right of denunciation provided for in this Article, will be bound for another period of ten years and, thereafter, may denounce this Convention at the expiration of each period of ten years under the terms provided for in this Article.”

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1930 Forced Labour Convention

1956 United Nations Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery, the Slave Trade and Institutions and Practices Similar to Slavery

1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child

1999 Worst Forms of Child Labour Recommendation

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