The following items are from Children & Parliament, Summer 1997. Children & Parliament is an abstracting service based on Hansard and produced by the National Children’s Bureau. It covers all parliamentary business affecting children and is available on subscription via the internet. TheChildren & Parliament website provides direct links to full text Hansard, government department sites, the sites of the Office for National Statistics, Ofsted, and other relevant organisations. For further details contact Lisa Payne, Editor,Children & Parliament, National Children’s Bureau, 8 Wakley Street, London EC1V 7QE (tel: +44(0)171 843 6000; fax: +44(0)171 278 9512). (The Hansard reference is given first followed by the date of Children & Parliament).

• The government intends to strengthen support for the International Labour Organisation’s efforts to end hazardous and exploitative child labour in developing countries and to promote universal primary education. The World Trade Organisation’s call for a human rights clause banning access to the most privileged terms of trade to countries where there is child labour (among other things) will also receive government support.

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