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This document provides an overview of some of the child labor related findings from a Ghana Living Standards Survey, as well as information regarding the situation of child labor, existing regulations,  as well as efforts and interventions made to address child labor in Ghana. The document also provides information on the launch of a Platform of  ECOWAS Parliamentarians against Child Labour.
 

This report presents findings on occupational safety and health conditions in Liberia's agriculture sector based on a rapid assessment conducted in Margibi, Montserrado and Nimba Counties in June and July 2015.

The overall objective of this research is to assess the compliance of tea factories and tea cooperatives with the national and international occupational health and safety (OSH) standards focusing on particularities of young workers. The research findings aim to inform national OSH guidelines in the tea sector in Rwanda.

A report presenting the results of a study of rates and patterns of child labor in the agricultural sector in Morocco.  Commissioned by the ILO and the Moroccan Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

A profile of a young girl named Martha who looks for scrap metal in mining waste sites to help support her family.

This resource manual is intended to support all those wishing to take action against child labor in domestic work and to protect young domestic workers of legal working age. It is designed, in particular, to strengthen the capacity of trade unions and workers' groups, community-based organizations and NGOs to advocate for an end to exploitation and abuse of children in domestic work, and to provide good practice guidance on the best ways of directly assisting these children.

This report presents an estimate of the people at risk of forced labor and the risk factors associated with the problem; and presents the results of the field research, which collected qualitative information from key informants and visits to certain farms or plantations. The report also presents the magnitude and characteristics of child labor, through the analysis of official information and field verification and description of the palm and cocoa production processes that incorporate children and adolescents in these activities. This study is the product of a consultancy commissioned from COMUNIDEC by the International Labor Office, and is linked to the expected results of the project "Building effective policies against child labor in Ecuador and Panama" (RLA 104) and the activities of El Plan Global de Acción Financiera.

This report is a prevalence study on child labor in Rwanda’s tea growing areas. The primary objective of the study was to estimate the prevalence of working children and hazardous work in tea production and to better understand child labor dynamics, focusing on tea-growing  areas  of  the  country. This study also serves as a baseline context for the Rwanda Education Alternatives for Children in Tea-growing Areas project (REACH-T) and is the first large scale survey aimed at estimating child labor rates in the tea-growing areas in Rwanda.

National Action Plan on eliminating child labor issued by the Government of Cameroon.

A module regarding the topic of preventing and reducing children's exposure to pesticides. The objectives of this module are to help participants identify how children are exposed to pesticides, describe to participants the negative health effects of pesticides and why children are more exposed, and to help participants identify how they can reduce children's exposure to pesticides in their community.