HC Deb 21 July 1998 vol 316 cc451-2W
Mr. Cox

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development if she will list the Governments with whom she has discussed the use of child labour in their countries during the last 12 months. [51243]

Mr. Foulkes

In the course of her participation in the Oslo Conference on child labour in November 1997 and the Forum for the Global March Against Child Labour in Geneva last month, my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State addressed representatives of the governments of many of the developing countries where child labour is a serious problem. Our officials are discussing with a number of them ways in which we can work together to help eradicate child labour. Currently our work on these issues involves the following countries:

  • India
  • Pakistan
  • Bangladesh
  • Nepal
  • Thailand
  • Cambodia
  • Laos
  • Vietnam
  • China
  • Kenya
  • South Africa
  • Tanzania
  • Zambia.