Solicitud directa (CEACR) - Adopción: 2025, Publicación: 114ª reunión CIT (2026)

Convenio sobre las peores formas de trabajo infantil, 1999 (núm. 182) - Barbados (Ratificación : 2000)

Article 5 of the Convention. Monitoring mechanisms. Collaboration between inspection services and law enforcement officials. The Committee notes with regret the absence of information in the Government’s report regarding the measures taken to strengthen cooperation between national agencies responsible for the prevention and elimination of the worst forms of child labour.

The Committee notes from the information available on the ILO website the development of the Decent Work Country Programme (DWCP) of Barbados 2025–2030, which, under Priority 3, includes the objective of increasing institutional capacities and structures for effective labour administration and social dialogue. The Committee further notes that outcome 3.3 of the DWCP 2025–2030 also includes the improvement of enforcement mechanisms.

The Committee notes from the information available on the ILO website, the re-establishment, in 2024, of the National Child Labour Committee as a tripartite body responsible for intersectoral coordination and strategic planning for the prevention and elimination of child labour. The Committee requests the Government to provide information on the measures taken to improve the cooperation between national agencies to prevent and eliminate the worst forms of child labour, including within the framework of the implementation of the DWCP 2025–2030, or through other measures, and the results achieved. The Committee also requests the Government to provide detailed information on the activities carried out by the labour administration, the law enforcement agencies, the National Task Force, and the National Child Labour Committee in relation to their cooperation to eliminate the worst forms of child labour, as well as on the results achieved.

Article 7(2). Effective and time-bound measures. Clause (b). Direct assistance for the removal of children from the worst forms of child labour and for their rehabilitation and social integration. Victims of trafficking. Following its previous comments, the Committee notes with regret that the Government has not provided information on the application in practice of sections 11, 18, and 21 of the Trafficking in Persons Prevention Act, 2016-9. The Committee once again requests the Government to provide information on the application in practice of sections 11, 18, and 21 of the Trafficking in Persons Prevention Act 2016-9, particularly regarding any child victims of trafficking who have received restitution from perpetrators and assistance for their rehabilitation and social integration.