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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)…

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...

A short film by a participant in the My-PEC program's photojournalism program.

Let Them Shine: In the following pages we will share with you our work of seven years: how we got to the territories we currently work in, how we organize ourselves with the communities, what methodology we develop, how we implemented it, who participated in our activities and what transformations we testify. This is Somos Tesoro, a search for a safer and happier place for boys, girls and Colombian teenagers.

A video displaying the testimonials of beneficiaries of the Somos Tesoro project in Boyacá