1. International Labour Organization (ILO)

2. ILO’s work on ASM Starting point:
Tripartite Meeting on Social and Labour Issues in Small-scale Mines, 1999

3. Specific tools Handbook: Safety & health in small-scale surface mines
Handbook has a brother, who speaks Mongolian

4. Child labour in ASM Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No.138)
Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No.182)
World Day against Child Labour 2005
Call for Action: Minors out of Mining!
Elimination of child labour in ASM by 2015
Target countries: Brazil, Burkina Faso, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador, Ghana, Mali, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Tanzania, and Togo

5. Ongoing work Signed call and ratified C.138 and C.182
high incidences of WFCL
long going ILO involvement (eg. Peru)
fewer children at risk
ongoing work (eg. Brazil)
Signed call and ratified C.182
special challenges in reducing child labour and regularizing the industry (eg. Côte d’Ivoire)
Countries that have not signed the call, but have requested IPEC assistance

6. Girls in mining - WP Working Paper based on research carried out
between April and December 2006
by the ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC)
in Ghana, Niger, Peru and Tanzania.

7. Main findings
The studies show that the involvement of girl child labour in mining is more frequent and far-reaching than was previously recognised.
Girls are involved in tasks related to the extraction, transportation and processing as well as in other mining-related jobs such as selling food and supplies to the miners.
Girls are more and more involved in hazardous occupations deeper into the interiors of the mine; at the same time they are, however, upheld to their traditional female responsibilities in the home.

8. Main findings (cont.)
The result is that girls in mining communities are forced to juggle their domestic tasks with other paid or non-paid work. Often, girls are performing just as hazardous tasks as boys, working longer hours, with a greater workload and often have a lesser chance of schooling, withdrawal or rehabilitation.
Trapped between these twin pressures, girls in small-scale mining communities are especially vulnerable as their schooling inevitably suffers and their physical and emotional well-being is under threat.

9. Work in Mongolia in ASM
The project is designed to support the country’s implementation of ILO Convention No.182
The project supports the national subprogramme to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in Mongolia with two strategic objectives:
Strengthening the enabling environment for national action against WFCL in Mongolia
Developing the integrated area based intervention model at the local level targeting boys and girls at risk or engaged in WFCL for prevention, withdrawal and rehabilitation that could be replicated at a larger scale.
ILO has been very involved in working with the industry in Mongolia
Mongolia should adopt law on ASM

10. Other work in mining (LSM)
International Labour Standards
Safety and Health in Mines Convention, 1995 (No.176); and
Recommendation No.183.
Guidance
Codes of practice (including COP on safety and health in underground coalmines); and
Guidelines (including Guidelines on HIV/AIDS for the mining sector).
ALSO Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989
ratification in 2001 of C.155 Occupational Safety and Health Convention, 1981 by Mongolia
ratification of C.176 to be done as next step
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