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A study on forced labor, human trafficking, and related practices in the Peruvian Amazon logging industry

A study on forced labor and human trafficking in the illegal gold mining industry of the Madre de Dios region of Peru

A guide for workers organizations to assist members in identifying, combatting, and preventing forced labor in Peru

A guide to assist public workers in understanding, identifying, and combatting forced labor in Peru.

A training document for criminal justice officials to provide tools for understanding, preventing, and responding to forced labor in Peru.

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

A report detailing good practices emanating from the ECOWAS I and ECOWAS II projects.

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.

The first section of this document presents a synoptic background of the state’s profile, the development process and the rationale for a State Action Plan. The State Action Plan provides the roadmap for the implementation of the National Policy on the Elimination of Child Labour in Oyo State through a variety of implementation strategies such as awareness raising and resource mobilization. The second section of the document describes the policy environment, existing gaps and recommended interventions. The section also highlights the achievements, gaps and recommended actions to be taken. Section three describes the intervention strategies and M&E framework while section four contains information on the Implementation of the State Action Plan.

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.