Worst forms of child labour
Worst forms of child labour are prohibited forms of child labour including slavery-like practices, trafficking, forced recruitment, illicit activities, and hazardous work. Applying Worst forms of child labour requires a stated affected people, rights, value-chain tier, geography, remedy, and distribution of benefits or harms.
In simple terms
In practical use, Worst forms of child labour are prohibited forms of child labour including slavery-like practices, trafficking, forced recruitment, illicit activities, and hazardous work. For Worst forms of child labour, assessment should identify the driver, exposure, affected people or assets, likelihood, consequence, and available response within a declared affected people, rights, value-chain tier, geography, remedy, and distribution of benefits or harms. Worst forms of child labour connects with Child labour and Sustainable procurement; each can affect its application without sharing its definition. The candidate link between Worst forms of child labour and Conflict minerals remains a separate expansion question supported here by International Labour Organization.
Why it matters
Worst forms of child labour matters because decisions about it determine which workers or communities are visible, what rights or harms are assessed, and where prevention or remedy is assigned. A defensible use of Worst forms of child labour therefore exposes its boundary, method, evidence, responsible actor, and uncertainty before a conclusion is accepted. That discipline keeps Child labour and Sustainable procurement from being treated as proof of Worst forms of child labour when their criteria, scope, or results differ.
Example
A procurement and human-rights team evaluates Worst forms of child labour for a defined decision and records the relevant affected people, rights, value-chain tier, geography, remedy, and distribution of benefits or harms. For Worst forms of child labour, the team uses cited material from International Labour Organization to identify the exposure, affected people or assets, and available response, documenting the period, data, assumptions, and comparison with Child labour. It treats Sustainable procurement and Conflict minerals as separate questions rather than proxies for Worst forms of child labour.
How it differs
Child labour
Worst forms of child labour is a issue or risk; Child labour has a different function. Evidence for Child labour does not establish Worst forms of child labour unless both sets of applicable criteria are met.