Improving the Enforcement of Child Labor Laws in Five Countries

Improving the Enforcement of Child Labor Laws in Five Countries

Africa, Asia, Child Labor, South America

The International Labor Organization (ILO) estimates that 152 million children worldwide are engaged in child labor. For the past four years, Verité partnered with Winrock International and Lawyers Without Borders to address this problem by providing technical assistance to governments in five countries: Burkina Faso, Liberia, Nepal, Belize, and Panama. The project had three goals: to improve governments’ response to child labor, decrease the number of children exploited, and increase awareness of child labor in the private sector.

New Child Labor Inspection Curriculum

New Child Labor Inspection Curriculum

Child Labor

A crucial step toward combating child labor is to educate and empower those who are in a position to identify incidences and take action. With this goal in mind, Verité, in partnership with Winrock International and with the support of the U.S. Department of Labor...
Verité Partners with Winrock to Build Governmental Capacity to Fight Child Labor

Verité Partners with Winrock to Build Governmental Capacity to Fight Child Labor

Africa, Child Labor, Forced Labor and Human Trafficking, Health and Safety, Latin America, Southeast Asia

Verité is currently implementing a four-year project to improve government commitments and performance on reducing hazardous child labor and forced child labor in eight countries. Verité is a partner on this multi-country initiative—known as Country Level Engagement and Assistance to Reduce Child Labor, or CLEAR II—with Winrock International, a global NGO working to empower the disadvantaged and increase economic opportunity.