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Resolution 3: on Child Labor

The 1st Elective Congress notes:

Considering the objectives of our Constitution 2.16 “To work with affiliates, governments, and other organizations to facilitate the education of the children of waste pickers and to improve access to childcare to ensure child labor is abolished”.

Therefore, it is resolved:

1. Adopt as its own the Convention 182 of the International Labor Organization “on the prohibition and immediate action for the elimination of the worst forms of child labor” (1999).
2. Promote strategies among all its affiliates for the eradication and prevention of child labor, supporting education and socio-community care projects. We believe that recycling is part of the popular economy, and therefore, we are one of the working sectors with the most vulnerable rights, but our main objective is the respect and recognition of our human and labor rights. Therefore, it is important to approach child labor from the point of view of care and support, and not from that of condemnation.
3. Develop an international policy of support networks to promote and strengthen projects focused on the care, recreation and education of waste pickers’ children around the world. These spaces are extremely important to avoid taking our children to work as a care strategy.
4. Combating child labour in landfills and dumpsites; By creating measures for their integration into children’s homes for orphans and their school attendance.

Proposed by: FACCyR (Argentina) and EGIG BTP (Guinea).

Seconded by: 1st Elective Congress delegates.