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This report shares out the results from a rapid assessment on the child labor situation in mining and small scale quarries areas of Ogun and Oyo states of Nigeria in order to inform the extent of project interventions required in the area.

A presentation defining the elements and functions of Child Labor Monitoring Systems. The presentation also includes several examples of Child Labor Monitoring Systems.

This presentation highlights information about the ECOWAS project, challenges faced by the project, and information on the  collaboration between NSC and the project.

To Conquer The World: Since 2002, the International Labor Organization (ILO) declared June 12 as the International Day Against Child Labor. With a view to the commemoration of this date, the Somos Tesoro project has created the campaign "To conquer the world", in order to remind children and adolescents and their parents that in order to succeed in life, minors need to learn to know themselves, to express themselves, to create, to share and enjoy.

Awareness Campaign Begins for the Eradication of Child Mining Labor: The Alliance for Responsible Mining, within the framework of the Somos Tesoro project begins the communications campaign on social networks to raise awareness about child labor. We want to encourage anyone who wants to position themselves, especially mining companies, to spread the message of collective will to eradicate child mining labor.

A comic strip produced with the purpose of raising awareness of forced labor situations in the mining sector in Peru.

What Does Somos Tesoro Leave Us? : Before Somos Tesoro arrived, we had a very different life, says Mercedes Cárdenas, a woman leader of the Guantó village, in Gámeza, Boyacá. “We each lived on her side. Today we are a group, we are five women, and we created our community garden, which has given us a lot for sustenance”. Now, in the process of closing the project in Boyacá, Mercedes feels confident in the future of her group and her garden: "Somos Tesoro leaves us with the strengthening of the family to build our future." 

Guide for Mining Free of Child Labor: This guide, which contains everything that a Colombian artisanal and small-scale miner or miner should know about child labor, has been written by the sociologist Ander Arcos Alonso, from ARM, in collaboration with the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the Ministry Labor , Action Fund and the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF).

An article announcing the release, after four years of work by the Somos Tesoro project and Fondo Acción (with the support of the Ministry of Labor, the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF) and the International Labor Organization), of the Comprehensive Territorial Management Route for the Prevention and Reduction of Mining Child Labor.  This was one of the most important results of the Somos Tesoro project in its public policy component.

An article about three former child laborers living in the municipality of El Bagre, in the department of Antioquia, focusing on the challenges they face working in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector.