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Child labor is a type of complex and multi-causal violence that has a transversal negative impact on the development of girls, boys and adolescents. This form of violence collaterally violates the right to education, health, protection and integral development. In some cases, it also affects the right to live as a family, causing severe physical and emotional illnesses with short and long-term implications, which reduce the quality of life and the expectation of survival in girls and boys.

Research indicates important and irreversible negative effects on health, such as lung diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), silicosis, lung cancer, fractures, sprains, bone deformations, infectious diseases, dermatitis, parasitosis, dehydration, different types of cancer and poisoning, among others, derived from the work they do and the conditions to which they are exposed. Among the psychological effects are stress, low levels of self-esteem, hopelessness, suicidal tendencies, among others (UNHCR, 2019).

At the international level, an effort is being made so that child labor, as a type of severe violence against girls, boys and adolescents, is considered in urgent government actions to address it. National and local governments, international organizations, organized civil society and activists seek to make this problem visible and not let it pass: “Normal is not normal.”

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Official Name of Signatory

Sistema Municipal para el Desarrollo Integral de la Familia de Atizapán de Zaragoza

Delegation

Mexico

Website of the Signatory

Name of the person presenting the Good Practice

Rodrigo Sánchez de la Peña

Position/Job Title of person presenting the Good Practice

Director General

Aim of the Good Practice

Detect, address and reduce child labor and begging in the Municipality

Target Group of the Good Practice

Girls, Boys and Teenagers, as well as their Primary Caregivers

Annual Monitoring Report

2024

Implementation period

2002 to date

Consistency over time

Aligned with SDGs 8.7, 16.2 and 17, as well as the National Strategy 25 to 25 in its Protection domain point 19. Public Policy that seeks to eradicate the worst forms of child and adolescent labor exploitation, as well as forced begging. It seeks to recover education in those girls, boys and adolescents who have stopped attending schools and thereby reduce poverty, dropouts, human trafficking, among others.

Evaluation of the Good Practice

National Award "Child Friendly City 2024", EDOMEXSTI Distinction 2022 and 2023, Global Democracy Award (Organizations) 2022, National Award for Good Municipal Government 2022, 3rd. place in the IAPEM Municipal Management Award

Key stakeholders and partnerships

22 departments of the Municipal government collaborate in this project, we have the Municipal Committee for the eradication of child labor, we have joined an alliance with Pure Earth México, Save the Children México, World Vision México, SOS Children's Villages and currently we made the Agreement for the First Intermunicipal Route to eradicate Child Labor in the Municipalities of Tlalnepantla, Nicolás Romero, Cuautitlán Izcalli and Atizapán de Zaragoza.

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Future Goal 1

Replication of this Public Policy in more Municipalities of the Country

Future Goal 2

That there is no child without studying

Future Goal 3

Passage of local laws to prevent child labor