Letter on child marriage
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We are writing to express our serious concern that the ILO is excluding millions of girls from your calculations of child labour, and indeed from your calculations of the worst forms of child labour.
After learning about the ILO's work on this important issue, it is clear to us that girls who are illegally married under the laws of a given country should properly be considered child labourers under existing ILO definitions. When a marriage is illegal under national law, that means a child cannot legally consent to the marriage, nor willingly leave it. Any work they do in that illegal spouse’s household should therefore rightfully be considered child labour. Thus, child marriage is child labour.
But it is not only that these girls are forced to perform domestic work, often for long hours. They also face terrible injustices, such as neglect, repeated rape, lack of education, heightened risk of HIV and life-threatening complications during childbirth. The fact that these children are subjected to physical, psychological, and sexual abuse should only increase the urgency of the ILO to highlight and denounce the labour which these children are forced to perform. Instead, the ILO’s insistence on neglecting these millions of child labourers undermines the productive campaign against child labour to which the ILO is committed.
After learning about the ILO's work on this important issue, it is clear to us that girls who are illegally married under the laws of a given country should properly be considered child labourers under existing ILO definitions. When a marriage is illegal under national law, that means a child cannot legally consent to the marriage, nor willingly leave it. Any work they do in that illegal spouse’s household should therefore rightfully be considered child labour. Thus, child marriage is child labour.
But it is not only that these girls are forced to perform domestic work, often for long hours. They also face terrible injustices, such as neglect, repeated rape, lack of education, heightened risk of HIV and life-threatening complications during childbirth. The fact that these children are subjected to physical, psychological, and sexual abuse should only increase the urgency of the ILO to highlight and denounce the labour which these children are forced to perform. Instead, the ILO’s insistence on neglecting these millions of child labourers undermines the productive campaign against child labour to which the ILO is committed.
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