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An article about three former child laborers living in the municipality of El Bagre, in the department of Antioquia, focusing on the challenges they face working in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector.

This document provides contextual information pertaining to child labor, with a focus on the agriculture industry. The Strategic Plan provides a framework for the Ministry of Food and Agriculture's child labor intervention in the context of the National Plan of Action for the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Ghana (NPA 2009-2015). The strategic plan, a result of a consultative and technical process, identifies results, resources required and roles that the stakeholders in the agricultural sector will play in its implementation. 

This study focuses on the "Amazonian trapeze", the connection zone between Peru, Brazil and Colombia, a scenario in which illegal economic dynamics are widespread, especially the smuggling of various objects and illicit drug trafficking. The central objective of this research is to understand the forms of forced labor and human trafficking for labor exploitation, associated with illegal economic logics in this area.

This document is a research report of which the central objective is to understand the forms of forced labor and human trafficking for the purpose of labor exploitation in the triple border area between Peru, Brazil, and Colombia. The report covers the extensive qualitative research the investigators undertook to discover the links between criminal activities and forced labor and human trafficking.

The United States Department of Labor (USDOL) in collaboration with the Government of Tanzania initiated and funded International Rescue Committee (IRC) to undertake the WEKEZA Project with the goal of combatting child labor. The WEKEZA baseline study includes a situational assessment of child labor and the pre-program status of six specified program outcome areas in six targeted Districts: Kasulu, Uvinza, and Kigoma Ujiji in Kigoma Region, and Korogwe, Muheza, and Tanga City in Tanga Region. The first objective of the report is to conduct a situational analysis of specified program-related information; the second objective is to provide baseline values of Performance Monitoring Plan (PMP) indicators; and the third objective is to provide contextual information that can help improve the program design. This baseline survey was carried out in 2013. The analysis combines mixed methods and integrates quantitative and qualitative data collected from households, children, teachers, local leaders, community members, parents and youth. This approach enables a holistic consideration of circumstances that influence child labor and allows findings to be viewed from multiple perspectives.  

This is a fact sheet describing the Tumbes region in Peru. It provides an overview of the region's geography, demographics, and statistics on labor and child labor.

This is a regional plan that outlines the national policy against trafficking in persons and its variations in forms of exploitation. This document visualizes the phenomenon of human trafficking in its different dimensions and constitutes evidence of institutional will to continue strengthening and implementing sustainable public policies with other regional, provincial and local initiatives aimed at the comprehensive development of the population of Ucayali.