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An Alliance Against Child Labor - This excerpt from Criterio Magazine discusses the work of Desarrollo y Autogestión (DYA) with various public and private actors to generate educational health services, training workshops and care centers in vulnerable rural areas to work against child labor. 

A report detailing the findings of a qualitative study cataloguing and assessing existing skills-training programs for youth in Myanmar.

Fledglings, Idle People and Warriors: Perception Study on Child Labor in Mining Areas of Colombia: This qualitative study examines the perceptions that those directly involved have about child labor. By directly involved we refer to minors who work or they might be able to work and the adults responsible for their upbringing. This document contains five stories that show the narration of the participants in a fictional format. They are stories about the experiences of these families around child labor. They collect the description of their environment, their way of expressing themselves, their anecdotes, their expectations and desires from the observer's point of view.

The Jamaica National Youth Activity Survey (JYAS) 2016 is the product of a partnership between the Statistical Institute of Jamaica and the International Labour Organization (ILO). It is the first stand-alone survey of children’s activities conducted nationally. The main objective of the survey is to collect comprehensive information on children’s engagement in economic activities. The JYAS 2016 report provides quantitative, reliable and updated statistics on working children, child labour, and hazardous work performed by children in Jamaica. Detailed in this report is statistical information on the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of working children aged 5 to 17 years as well as related information on the households to which they belong. The report includes an analysis of fundamental child labour-related issues, such as children’s involvement in economic activity, types and characteristics of child labour and children’s working environment. It also contains findings about children’s non-economic activities, principally school attendance and engagement in household chores.

The Child Labour Survey 2015 carried out in Ethiopia collected information on the demographic characteristics of the population, including their education, health, employment, migration, and housing characteristics. The survey covered both the rural and urban areas of the country. It was conducted in 721 enumeration selected areas consisting of 21, 526 private households from 25 May to 23 July 2015. Basic information on all persons living in private households was solicited. The population targeted by the survey was the group of children aged 5 to 17 years.

This informational leaflet provides a list of phone numbers and institutions where individuals can seek help and assistance in regards to forced and child labor. The leaflet also provides a summative overview of what forced labor is, who the victims are, and who is vulnerable to forced labor.

This is the 3rd part of Peru's proposal plan that is part of the overall National Plan for the Fight Against Forced Labor. The proposal goes over the conceptual framework of forced labor elimination efforts, statistical information that is specific to the topic in Peru, and a strategic framework which identifies approaches and actions to take to further the fight against forced labor.

This report outlines the Ucayali Region's Plan to combat human trafficking within the framework of the National Policy Against Trafficking in Persons and its forms of exploitation. This plan outlines an analysis of these topics in the Ucayali region and a framework and action plan on how to fight forced labor and human trafficking through policy implementation and strengthening.

The ILO has designed this module to serve as a tool for developing the capabilities of justice operators, particularly in dealing with cases of forced labor, from the criminal legal perspective. In particular, it is intended for use by criminal judges, criminal prosecutors, police officers, and public defenders, and seeks to increase people's knowledge on the identification, investigation and punishment of these crimes.

This is a confidential questionnaire that asks respondents about household, educational, and demographic characteristics, among others, to assess respondent's risk of falling into forced labor.