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A report that discusses forced labor in the illegal gold mining industry in the district of Manseriche in the Loreto region of Peru and the working conditions of the local Awajún indigenous people. The report includes an extensive literature review on relevant topics, and analysis of industrial logistics, coloniality, and value extraction.

Pilares Corporation, South of Bolivar: We are a citizen group that works for a better future for children and adolescents in our territories. We are the union of several civil society organizations formed into a corporation, which currently work to raise awareness, identify, prevent and mitigate child labor and other unacceptable working conditions in our communities,

Pilares Project: This homepage of the Pilares Project website provides updates on the latest news about Pilares, contains links to videos and recent publications, and acts as a platform for further information on the project.

This annotated bibliography aims to identify and summarize evidence of the outcomes of labor-focused programs or studies implemented in Colombia from 2011 to 2021, not funded through the United States Department of Labor (USDOL). These programs or studies focus on the five priority sectors identified in the Colombian Action Plan Related to Labor Rights (Labor Action Plan or LAP) to address serious labor concerns in the context of the United States-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement (CPTA).1 These priority sectors include (1) ports, (2) flowers, (3) mining, (4) sugar cane, and (5) palm oil.

This report describes in the final evaluation of the ‘Combatting Child Labor in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Cobalt Industry’ (COTECCO) project. Fieldwork for this evaluation was conducted in April 2022. Sistemas Familia y Sociedad - Consultores Asociados EIRL Ltd. conducted this independent evaluation in collaboration with the project team and stakeholders, and prepared the evaluation report.

The objective of the project is to strengthen efforts by the Congolese government and other relevant stakeholders (at central and provincial level) in addressing child labor (CL) in the cobalt supply chain in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)…

An overview of the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) industry in the Philippines and its use of child labor with case study.

Pilares’ main objective is to build the capacity of local civil society organizations (CSOs) to better understand and address child labor and other unacceptable working conditions (OUWC). To achieve this goal, it uses the Collective Impact Model (CIM), through which organizations collaborate to solve complex problems...

Toolkit developed as part of Objective 3 of CAPSA Project, designed to assist Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in implementing adequate due diligence and responsible business conduct towards prevention and elimination or abolition of child labour. The toolkit provides SMEs with practical guidelines on how businesses can be involved in child labour and how they could contribute to its elimination.

A website -- available in Spanish and English -- that describes Somos Tesoro's project objective, the monitoring and evaluation plan, and data on the project objective indicators.