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Small Mining: the innovation contest for artisanal and small-scale mining, organized by ARM within the framework of Somos Tesoro, made it possible for these miners to have today the water treatment system powered by the mill of wind. Thus, the water that previously polluted is now used for irrigation.

Reduction in Cases of Suspected Child Labor: The Somos Tesoro project has reached 13,239 children and adolescents with educational services. At the beginning of the project, it was identified that approximately 30.6% of these carried out activities linked to child labor. At the end of the project, this group was reduced to 4.8%, achieving a decrease of 25.8 percentage points. 

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.

Innovation Contest for Miners and Their Communities: Since mid-2016, the Alliance for Responsible Mining (ARM) has implemented, within the framework of the Somos Tesoro project, an innovation contest for miners working in ASM, in which up to four pilot projects are financed...

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 presenting the results of an exploratory study aimed at developing a better understanding of labor relations in the artisanal fishing sector in terms of "Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work (PDFT) in order to define intervention strategies for improving standards relating to PDFTs in the sector.

The objective of this guide is to promote compliance and demand for rights by domestic workers, through an amicable format and under current regulations. This document was prepared by la Federación Nacional de Trabajadoras y Trabajadores del Hogar del Perú (Fenttrahop) and la Federación Nacional de Trabajadores y Trabajadoras del Hogar Remunerados del Perú (Fentrahogarp); with the support of la Fundación Friedrich Ebert (FES) and the international Labor Organization.

A research brief on the findings from a study aimed measuring migration costs borne by domestic workers from Indonesia and the Philippines in Malaysia. The study was supported by the Protecting the Rights of Migrant Domestic Workers and Plantation Workers through Improved Labour Migration Governance project (funded by the U.S. Department of State), the Protocol to Practice: A Bridge to Global Action on Forced Labor project (The Bridge Project), and the Safe and Fair Programme as part of the Spotlight Initiative.