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Guide for the Application of Step 2 - Warning Signs - Definition and Categorization of Risk Criteria for Child Labor in Mining: This document presents a guide for the application of the "Comprehensive Territorial Management Route for the Prevention and Elimination of Mining Child Labor", a tool that will provide the relevant authorities a step by step guide to identify, target and detect the populations at greatest risk,  implement prevention strategies, and reduce child labor in informal mining in their municipalities.

Clip of interview with Cesar Giovanni Soledad (then-Project Coordinator with the ILO's CARING Gold Project) on ABS-CBN, a Philippine news and entertainment network. Soledad presents the argument that "the key to solving the problem of child labor in small-scale informal mining" is not stricter enforcement but formalization of the small-scale mining sector.

Mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative ) study on the causes, mechanism and consequences of early marriage in Ethiopia, focusing on Amhara National Regional State – one of the regions with the highest rate of early marriage. Study aims: investigate the psychosocial and health effects of early marriage, and inform the developmental, policy and intervention demands of the nation with evidence-based research to mitigate the problem of early marriage and its effects.

The 2015 National Child Labour Survey (NCLS) was a nationwide survey designed to collect data on demographic and socio-economic characteristics of working children aged 5-17 years.  The 2015 NCLS was supported by the International Labour Organization (ILO) through its Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work Branch (FUNDAMENTALS).  The 2015 NCLS was conducted by the National Statistical Office (NSO) in collaboration with Ministry of Labour, Youth and Manpower Development (MoLYMD) and Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development (MoAIWD).

Baseline study conducted in order to:
1) Estimate the prevalence of child labor in 4 target districts by sex and by age group, including the percentage of children working, the percentage of children in child labor and hazardous child labor (HCL) as well as the proportion of children at high risk (CAHR) of engaging in child labor;
2) Provide baseline values for project indicators,
3) Provide context-related information on: household/family characteristics for children in child labor, formal/non-formal education opportunities for children, employment opportunities for youth 15-17, and involvement of cocoa processing/buying companies and farmer unions/cooperatives.

This assessment was conducted to examine how the issue of child labor is represented in the Vietnamese mass media, and to make recommendations for how public awareness could be raised to galvanize public attention onto the issue. The overall aim of the assessment is to provide recommendations for the ENHANCE project’s mass media awareness campaign.

An article about the work of teams from the Alliance for Responsible Mining and Pact, partners in the Somos Tesoro project, providing trainings on the financial management of household resources to miners in the mountains of Tópaga, Boyacá.

This manual seeks to help justices of the peace have more information about the problem of forced labor in Peru and help them identify cases of forced labor so that they can implement the actions that correspond to them within the framework of their functions. Although justices of the peace are not empowered to resolve cases related to crimes, they have a crucial role insofar as their powers are limited to the field of prevention, awareness and inter-institutional coordination for handling cases of forced labor.

This report constitutes an exploratory analysis of two previously selected border areas of Peru: between Peru and Ecuador through Tumbes and the triple border between Peru and Brazil and Colombia. These borders show a growing presence of forced labor and human trafficking, and this report offers a proposal of criteria that allow decisions to be made to carry out future in-depth investigations of these borders by regional governments and public & private institutions.

The National Strategy for the Fight against the Worst Forms of Child Labor (Strategie Nationale de Lutte Contre les Pires Formes de Travail des Enfants (SN-PFTE)) defines guidelines and includes a set of actions to protect children against their exploitation through work. It also describes the mechanisms and procedures for implementing these actions. The document also includes an overview of the child labor situation in Burkina Faso