Direct Request (CEACR) - adopted 2022, published 111st ILC session (2023)

Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No. 182) - Israel (Ratification: 2005)

Application of the Convention in practice. Following its previous comments, the Committee notes from the Government’s report that in 2021, 33 investigations were carried out, and four indictments and two convictions were secured under the Penal Code concerning offences related to exploiting minors for prostitution and child pornography. The Committee also takes note of the Government’s information in its report under the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29) that a new law banning prostitution and which provides for increased penalties for the offences related to the purchase of sexual services from minors has been enacted in 2019.