Cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright information -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- Executive summary -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I. A dynamic global picture -- New global estimates on the nature and extent of child labour -- Progress in child labour statistics -- Main findings -- Methodology and underlying data -- Child labour standards and their ratification -- Historical background -- Remaining challenges -- Historical background -- Remaining challenges -- PART II. Important achievements on the road to 2016 -- IPEC: Twenty years in the making -- The 2006 Global Action Plan -- ILO action -- Supporting national efforts -- Data, knowledge and capacity building -- Sharing and translating knowledge into policy advice -- South-South cooperation -- Deepening and strengthening the worldwide movement -- ILO report on the worldwide movement -- Advocacy -- Enhancing the role of the social partners -- Untitled -- Corporate social responsibility -- Global framework agreements -- Alliance with the world cooperative movement -- Violence against children: The United Nations study -- Education for All: The child labour connection -- New international partnerships -- World Day against Child Labour -- Child labour and the United Nations -- Global conference on child labour 2010 -- Responding to the global economic and employment crisis -- Further integration of child labour into ILO policies -- Child labour and youth employment linkages -- Special action for girls -- The 2008 target -- Focus on Africa -- 2005 as a crucial year: The gap between promises and performance -- ILO action since 2006 -- Knowledge development -- Summing up -- PART III. Turning challenges into opportunities -- What is happening to education? -- The politics of eliminating child labour: A critical dimension.

More strategically focused efforts needed in challenging times -- National ownership and scaling up -- Time-bound Programmes -- Conditional cash transfers -- Challenges and opportunities in education -- Child labour and youth employment -- Agriculture: A challenge for action against child labour -- Neglected worst forms and the excluded: Important gaps remain -- Forced and bonded labour -- Child domestic workers -- Children affected by armed conflict -- Illicit activities -- The impact of HIV/AIDS on child labour -- Children on the move: Migration as an emerging concern -- Children with disabilities and other special educational needs -- Role and commitment of the social partners -- Corporate social responsibility -- The promise of United Nations reform -- Re-energizing the worldwide movement -- What kind of leadership role for the ILO? -- Course corrections -- Important partners: Working with UNICEF and international NGOs -- The potential of BRIC as child labour companions -- Advocacy -- Knowledge gaps and strategy -- Knowledge gaps -- Knowledge strategy -- Measuring national efforts and progress -- Ratification prospects -- Regional strategies -- Honouring commitments to Africa -- South Asia: A large child labour population -- The Americas: Good but uneven progress -- Arab states -- Europe and Central Asia -- Achievements at stake: Impact of the global financial and economic crisis on child labour -- Policy responses -- Next steps -- International trade measures on child labour -- The economic impact of climate change: Making the child labour case -- PART IV. Accelerating progress towards 2016 -- Two scenarios -- Past agendas -- Strategic considerations for reaching the 2016 target -- Key steps for getting to 2016: Building global momentum -- Specific action for the ILO -- Intellectual leadership -- Support to the worldwide movement.

Strengthening a trade union and business alliance against child labour -- Regional issues and priorities.