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This issue paper addresses the twin challenges of child labor and education exclusion among indigenous children. The paper demonstrates that indigenous children face a higher risk of child labor than other children, and are often significantly over-represented in hazardous work and the worst forms of child labor. These children also face limited access to education, with particular limitations found among indigenous girls. Factors influencing this situation include land dispossession, climate change, migration, and constraints on traditional indigenous livelihoods

The purpose of this report is to evaluate the effect of the EMPOWER project on adolescent girls’ and women’s skill acquisition, participation in acceptable work and employment, and other related outcomes. The evaluation uses quantitative pre-post and descriptive analyses to describe outcomes and measure changes over time, complemented by qualitative analysis to contextualize findings.

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 qualitative research report presents data on factors leading to the prevalence of child labor in Timor-Leste. These factors include cultural norms, gender disparities, and poverty. The data also confirms that social assistance was often found to be insufficient to stop child labor. The report concludes with recommendations based on the findings of the report.

Transcript of an audio PSA for radio broadcast about the dangers and impacts of child labor. Part of an awareness-raising campaign by the FORMITRA project.

This report analyzes the effect that Argentina's Emergency Family Income (Ingreso  Familiar de Emergencia (IFE)) program had on the participation of adolescents in the labor market, specifically considering the IFE as a protection and prevention mechanism against adolescents' their early insertion in the labor market. 

A report examining the role that social protection policies -- especially those aimed at providing income security for households with children and adolescents -- can play in reducing rates of child labor.  

A report examining the role that social protection policies -- especially those aimed at providing income security for households with children and adolescents -- can play in reducing rates of child labor.  Examines regional differences in coverage by recent Universal Child Allowance policy.

This study seeks to understand, from a gender perspective, the ways that families' living conditions, the labor trajectories of adults, and the gendered division of labor in households influence the relationship to work formed by boys, girls, and adolescents (niños, niñas, y adolescentes (NNyA)), as well as  expectations regarding their future job opportunities. 
This study employs a critical analysis approach to child labor (TI) that recognizes that the social relations generated in certain contexts determine, on the one hand, how childhood is defined, and on the other, the conditions and perceptions about it. 
These dynamics are analyzed using case studies of households in the Metropolitan Area of ​​Buenos Aires in 2020, the first full year of the COVID-19 pandemic and a year in which the economy and employment were in crisis.

On International Democracy Day, we're highlighting the importance of recognizing and overcoming the barriers women face to equal political and social participation in Colombia…