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Economic and Administrative Aspects of Small Mining: In this booklet we will suggest a methodology to plan and project your mining company into the future, we will explain how to make the decision to invest in a mining company and how to calculate what you must produce to at least cover your operating costs and expenses.

This report contains the results of a survey on child labor in Ukraine. The purpose of the survey is to expand the knowledge base and improve data on child labor in Ukraine as a part of the national strategy of the elimination of child labour, especially its worst forms.

An article about the work of teams from the Alliance for Responsible Mining and Pact, partners in the Somos Tesoro project, providing trainings on the financial management of household resources to miners in the mountains of Tópaga, Boyacá.

An article reporting on a poetry competition, "cradling working hands, through dreamy stanzas", initiated by the EcoArt collective (with support from the Fundación Mi Sangre and the Somos Tesoro Project).  This was one of a number of initiatives to address child labor in the area.

An article about adolescent and younger participants in film and audio festivals held by Somos Tesoro.

A public policy plan regarding the prevention and eradication of child labor and the protection of adolescent workers.  The document, in its structure, is presented in five chapters. The first refers to the background of the construction of public policy around child labor in Colombia. The second, performs a situational analysis at a descriptive level, to understand the phenomenon and its impact on the comprehensive development of children and adolescents, as well as the strengths and efforts of state action to identify its scope, gaps , characteristics and particularities that affect this population. On the other hand, the statistical view of the subject, challenges and challenges that Colombia has in the face of child labor and the social debt with adolescents is presented. The third chapter describes the policy framework, which includes both the legal platform to address the issue, as well as the conceptual framework, which exposes the definitions, characteristics, and relationships with child labor, under the guiding framework of approaches. The fourth refers to the technical references to understand the rights of children and adolescents, within the framework of comprehensive protection. Finally, the fifth chapter presents the management framework of the policy, in which its objective and guiding axes are defined, and in them the management that must be carried out by the agents of the National Family Welfare System - SNBF, at the national, departmental, district and municipal to make the guarantee and effective enjoyment of the rights of children and adolescents and the strengthening of the family a reality, within the framework of comprehensive protection.

A technical bulletin reporting on the prevalence and patterns in child labor in Colombia between October and December 2016.

A news article about the need for livelihood support programs in Nepal and the launch of the Bridge Project to support efforts to end forced and bonded labor practices in Nepal.

A collection of three new articles about the launch of the Bridge Project in Nepal to support efforts to address forced and bonded labor in Nepal. The collection includes articles from the following media platforms: The Rising Nepal; Republica; and the Himalayan News Service.

This document provides the methodological guidelines for a survey of measurement of forced labor risks for adequate monitoring of the actions that have been carried out for the BRIDGE project. This stems from a need to generate quantitative information on the levels of knowledge of the concept and situation of forced labor in Peru and levels of risk and working conditions of vulnerable populations subject to forced labor.