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... The European Parliament adopted a resolution on child labour in mines in Madagascar...... and GUE/NGL groups. Parliament condemned the unacceptable use of child labour in all its forms, pointing.......  Parliament welcomed the fact that the eradication of child labour is one of the priorities of the new...... Commission and asked it to elaborate on how it intends to tackle child labour through EU policy, legislation...... the fight against child labour and exploitation, as an essential element of its political dialogue......, to take the lead in eradicating child labour and to take immediate and effective action to end child...... and child labour in all the EU’s Economic Partnership Agreements by means of binding and enforceable...... products and services related to child labour from entering EU markets. ...... labour in all its forms by 2025 at the latest. It recommended that the Commission put children's rights...... implementation strategy for the sustainable development agenda up to 2030 and to make the eradication of child...

... strong concerns about child labour in the growing and harvesting of cocoa beans. It strongly condemns...... the use of child labour on cocoa fields , and urges those states which have yet to ratify the UN...... of Child Labour, to ratify and implement these conventions swiftly. Furthermore, States should implement...... in terms of combating all forms of forced child labour and collaborate towards a sustainable cocoa supply...... chain free from child labour. Parliament calls on the Commission: ·         to ensure...... on, an effective traceability mechanism for goods produced by means of forced child labour .  It also...... relating to the use of forced child labour on cotton fields in Uzbekistan, and recommended that the EU...... that aim at eradicating child labour, improving the lives of children and adults on cocoa farms...... in combating the worst forms of child labour on West African cocoa farms. ...... responsibility, and to encourage the exchange of best practices between different economic sectors in which child...

... special focus on child labour. (Please see the summary of 06/06/2005.) Parliament also pointed out...... to attest that they have been produced without the use of child labour at any point in the production...... child labour'. Link between education, poverty and elimination of child labour: Parliament...... programmes combating less common forms of child labour such as domestic work and the selling of children...... of a ban on child labour in trade and suggested that child-labour free products be marked...... the violation of the core ILO conventions, including the use of child labour, in any part of the supply...... companies which persistently use child labour in any part of the production and supply chain and called...... contribute to the effective abolition of child labour. ...... reiterates its view that there is a mutually reinforcing relationship between a lack of education and child...... labour, making education the basic instrument for achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2015...

... by the Government of Uzbekistan to eradicate forced child labour, in practice, year after year an estimated number...... evidence of forced labour and in particular forced child labour as a systematic and organised practice...... the Council and the Commission to: strongly condemn the use of forced child labour in Uzbekistan...... of forced child labour practices; urge the Government of Uzbekistan to allow an ILO monitoring mission...... and to ensure that the practice of forced labour and forced child labour is effectively in the process of being......'s agricultural sector; ensure that pursuing the end to the practice of forced child labour in cotton...... on an effective traceability mechanism for the goods being produced through forced child labour; support...... the Parliament’s call to cotton traders and retailers to desist from buying cotton produced by forced child labour...... information on the situation in Uzbekistan, especially with regard to the eradication of forced child labour...... that the practice of forced labour and child labour is effectively in the process of being eradicated. Further...

... conflict, and ILO Convention 182 on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour. The Council...

... that the practice of forced labour and child labour is effectively in the process of being eradicated at national...... of child labour, achieving the almost total eradication of child labour . Members stated that, because...... paradigm by immediately terminating the continued use of forced labour and child labour in the cotton...... that the practice of forced labour and child labour is effectively in the process of being eradicated at national...... made in Uzbekistan since 2013, including the adoption of laws which prohibit the use of child labour......, achieving the almost total eradication of child labour . Given the efforts by the Government...... paradigm by immediately terminating the continued use of forced labour and child labour in the cotton...

... or compulsory labour; the effective abolition of child labour; and the elimination...... orientation; make the elimination of child labour and respect for children’s rights a priority...... in trade agreements; create measures to combat child labour in which the creation of decent jobs...... for an EU child labour hotline to be set up where citizens can report all companies that make use...... of child labour anywhere in the world; create social attachés in the new External Action Service...

..., - non-discrimination in employment, - prohibition of forced labour and slavery, - prohibition of child labour...... the unacceptable levels of child labour which have developed in some EU Member States. It cites estimates by child...... conditions. In the Parliament's view, combatting child labour should be the focus of a European initiative...