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A one-page factsheet summarizing the aims, intended beneficiary populations, and intervention types employed by the EducaFuturo project.

Communication, A Bet to Achieve Social Changes: An article reporting on the start of virtual trainings conducted by the Educational Institute of Rural Providence.   The workshops aim to help attendees -- who included teachers and young adults -- to build communication skills and proficiency with communications tools such as radio, podcasts, writing and photography, allowing them to become more effective agents of change in their territories.

What Does Somos Tesoro Leave Us? : Before Somos Tesoro arrived, we had a very different life, says Mercedes Cárdenas, a woman leader of the Guantó village, in Gámeza, Boyacá. “We each lived on her side. Today we are a group, we are five women, and we created our community garden, which has given us a lot for sustenance”. Now, in the process of closing the project in Boyacá, Mercedes feels confident in the future of her group and her garden: "Somos Tesoro leaves us with the strengthening of the family to build our future." 

This investigation documents presence of forced labor in logging camps, which evidences debt bondage, threats and punishments in the workplace, among others, and shows the presence of an extensive -informal and precarious- recruitment system concentrated in river ports. Sustained in interviews with workers and ex-workers, the field work carried out in the triple border allows to understand the precariousness of a scenario crossed by illegal economies, a porous control system and a wide informal dynamic.

This document defines the phenomenon of slavery in accordance with the criminal code and related application procedures, the different types of slavery prevalent in Niger and where they are practiced, the aspects of trafficking in persons in Niger and the international instruments ratified by Niger.

What To Do About Child Labor: These are some recommendations given by the ICBF for an appropriate management of the situation when faced with child labor.

Guide for Mining Free of Child Labor: This guide, which contains everything that a Colombian artisanal and small-scale miner or miner should know about child labor, has been written by the sociologist Ander Arcos Alonso, from ARM, in collaboration with the Ministry of Mines and Energy, the Ministry Labor , Action Fund and the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF).

An article announcing the release, after four years of work by the Somos Tesoro project and Fondo Acción (with the support of the Ministry of Labor, the Colombian Family Welfare Institute (ICBF) and the International Labor Organization), of the Comprehensive Territorial Management Route for the Prevention and Reduction of Mining Child Labor.  This was one of the most important results of the Somos Tesoro project in its public policy component.

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.

An article about the participation of the Somos Tesoro project in the commemoration of the International Day against Child Labor, organized by the Colombian Network against Child Labor, led by the Ministry of Labor and the Global Compact.