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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. |
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这里是VOA 特别英语发展报道。 |
Delegates from around the world have agreed on a new plan to end the worst kinds of child labor by two thousand sixteen. |
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来自世界各地的代表针对2016 年之前终止最严重的童工现象的计划达成一致。 |
More than four hundred fifty delegates from eighty countries approved the plan at the Global Child Labor Conference. |
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来自80个国家的450 多名代表通过了在全球童工会议上提出的计划。 |
It was held in The Hague, the Netherlands, last week. |
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该会议上周在荷兰的海牙举行。 |
A week earlier, the International Labor Organization released its third Global Report on Child Labor. |
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一周前,国际劳工组织发布了第三份全球童工问题报告。 |
The report said there are still two hundred fifteen million child laborers in the world. |
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该高爆称,全世界仍然有2.15亿名童工。 |
One hundred and fifteen million of them are working in some of the worst kinds of child labor. |
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其中1.15 亿名童工在非常糟糕的形势下工作。 |
These are often dangerous to their health and safety. |
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这对他们的健康和人身安全来说都是非常危险的。 |
The ILO notes that child labor is decreasing worldwide, but at a much slower rate than four years ago. |
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国际劳工组织指出,全世界的童工数量已经在逐渐减少,但是减少的速度却低于四年前。 |
The organization also warned that the global economic crisis could slow progress even more. |
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该组织还警告称,国际经济危机会使进展进一步受阻。 |
It called for an increase in global efforts in order to reach the goals for ending the worst forms of child labor. |
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该组织呼吁全球加强努力,达到终止最糟糕的童工形式的目标。 |
Representatives at the conference last week talked about what actions need to be taken. |
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上周,代表们在会议上探讨了应该采取的措施。 |
Patrick Quinn is with the ILO's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor. |
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Patrick Quinn 是国际劳工组织消除童工国际项目成员。 |
He says there is clear evidence of the kinds of policies and programming interventions that can be most effective in combating the problem. |
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他说,已有显著证据表明,一些政策和项目干预对打击童工问题是行之有效的。 |
"We know for example that if governments tackle the barriers that stop poor families accessing education, |
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“例如,我们知道,如果政府能够解决贫困家庭儿童难以获得教育的问题, |
if they tackle the fees which many poor families often have to pay for education, |
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如果他们能够解决贫困家庭必须支付高昂学费的问题, |
they can encourage children to attend school. So governments putting in place the right education policies. |
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他们可以鼓励孩子上学。所以,政府应该出台正确的教育政策。 |
In many parts of the world we've seen that if governments introduce social protection programs, |
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在世界上许多地区,我们看到,如果政府引进社会保护项目和措施, |
measures for example which give family benefits to families with children, |
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为有孩子的家庭提供家庭福利, |
particularly poorer families, this can have an important impact in enabling people to keep their children in school and out of the work force." |
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尤其是贫困家庭,这可以对孩子们继续读书,脱离工作场所起到显著作用。” |
Mister Quinn says efforts to combat the problem must also be increased at the community level. |
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Quinn 表示,应对该问忒的努力在社区水平也必须得到加强。 |
He said the ILO is working with local civic organizations to change opinions about child labor. |
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他说,国际劳工组织正在与当地市民组织合作,改变对童工的看法。 |
The ILO report notes that several areas of the world are making important progress. |
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国际劳工组织这份报告指出,世界上一些地区在该问题上已经取得了重大进展, |
They include Latin America, the Caribbean and south Asia. The least progress has been made in Africa. |
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包括拉丁美洲,加勒比和南亚。非洲取得的进展则是最少的。 |
Mister Quinn says world leaders will discuss the issue later this year at a meeting on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. |
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Quinn 表示,今年年末,在联合国千年发展目标会议上,世界领袖将针对该问题进行讨论。 |
He says there is a close link between these goals and combating child labor. |
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他说,千年发展目标的实现与消除童工之间存在非常密切的联系。 |
And that's the VOA Special English Development Report, written by June Simms. Transcripts, MP3s and podcasts of our programs are at www.24en.com. I'm Steve Ember. |
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这里是VOA 特别英语发展报道。 |