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Protection, The Best Mechanism: As an entity committed to the development and comprehensive protection of early childhood, childhood, adolescence and the well-being of Colombian families, the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare -ICBF- has designed and implemented projects in order to prevent risk factors and promote generative factors at the individual and family levels, which allow the guarantee in the exercise of rights and the reestablishment of those that have been ignored, threatened or violated to children, adolescents and their families.

The Age of Empathy: Do boys and girls have to work every day to meet their basic needs at home? Does this activity potentiate the child's capacities or minimizes them and distances him from the real space in which she would like and should be? These are some questions that we can ask ourselves when we see a child selling sweets on the street.

Somos Tesoro Says Goodbye: On Thursday, August 16, within the framework of the Mining and Construction Fair, the closing ceremony of the Somos Tesoro project was held in Boyacá. A project that, in its mission to reduce child labor, for five years has enriched the lives of 1,439 Boyacá homes, 66 coal mining units, 1,223 male and female miners, 226 public officials and 2,580 children and adolescents, all of them in Sugamuxi province.

Eight Pilot Projects to Prevent Child Labor: Graphic reporters, artistic and sports schools, a children's park, among others, linked the efforts of these social organizations, municipal mayors and Somos Tesoro, in an integration promoted by Fondo Acción. 

A report reviewing the intersectorial protocol against forced labor, and containing suggestions for how it might be updated or adapted.

A model regulatory instruction model legislation -- later adopted by the Serbian Ministry of Labor -- instructing labor inspectors to use a special Checklist for Oversight over Child Labor and will conduct its work based on the Special Protocol of Labor Inspection for Protecting Children from Child Labor, Including Its Worst Forms, and Violations of Child Work Rights.

A piece of model legislation -- later adopted by the Serbian government -- designed to augment Serbia's General Protocol on Protection of Children from Abuse and Neglect, designed to promote inter-agency and inter-sectorial cooperation in the creation of an active protection mechanism against child labor.

A document containing guidelines to be used by individuals working in Serbia's Social Protection System offices (e.g. Centers for Social Work, Centers for Foster Care and Adoption, Centers  for  the  Protection  of  Victims  of  Trafficking  in  Human  Beings,  and Children’s  Residential  Institutions, among other  Social  Care  Providers) that work with children, instructing them on how to use this set of Child Labor Indicators as a tool to help them recognize and identify children affected by or at risk of child labor.

This review is aimed at determining the extent to which national laws, regulations, policies and other measures, as well as the existing practices in Myanmar are implementing the requirements of the international standards on child labour, such as in particular the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; the ILO Minimum Age Convention, 1973 (No.138)and the ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, 1999 (No.182). The review is articulated around three specific objectives, namely to (i)identify the relevant provisions of national laws, regulations, policies, etc. which aim at implementing those relevant international standards; (ii)determine whether and how these international standards are reflected by such national provisions in Myanmar; and (iii)recommend the necessary changes that need to be made to law and practice to ensure compliance with those ratified international standards and effectively eliminate child labour and protect young workers.

A guide containing guidelines and best practices for Serbian professionals working in social protection system organizations.  Designed to provide social protection experts with better tools for identifying victims of child labor or children at risk of excessive, hard or the worst forms of labor.