Children from four continents brought their six-month global march against child labour to a climax in Geneva today when they entered the hall where the International Labour Organisation is holding its annual conference.

Delegates gave more than three-hundred of the children, who have been with the march since the start, a standing ovation The ILO conference will discuss a new convention aimed at combatting the worst forms of child exploitation.

The BBC correspondent in Geneva says a previous convention in 1973 was only ratified by about sixty countries and is now seen by the ILO as too sweeping.