The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the Secretariat for Social Welfare of the Presidency (SBS) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) presented this new study with the aim of providing a clearer picture on the forms of work and the Main characteristics of unaccompanied migrant working children. Through it, it is expected to promote the design of policy measures aimed at improving care and support in the reintegration of returnees, as well as preventing irregular migration of children and adolescents.

Through an innovative intervention model, the project contributes to the prevention and removal of child laborers, particularly in domestic work, and secondly facilitates their access to accelerated vocational training, certified educational programs and provides professional experience (as an intern, or through apprenticeship or regular employment, for children aged 14 to 17).

This cooperative partnership was based on the exchange of experiences around the successful Brazilian program - Me encontrei - which aimed to remove children from the worst forms of work and vulnerable young people through vocational training, skills in daily life and experience through internships and apprenticeships.

Millions of young Haitians of working age cannot find a way to decent work and risk social exclusion. Young Haitians without qualifications are the most affected by the employment crisis, while young people leaving school or university often have inadequate training in relation to the demand and needs of the labor market. .

This document explains the degree to which boys and girls in Latin America and the Caribbean are affected differently by child labor according to their gender, territory, social class, age, race and ethnicity, characteristics classified in the study as structural axes of inequality.

Main strategic axes related to the fight against child labor, contained in the Resolutions of the Trade Union Confederation of the Americas (CSA), in the Development Platform of the Americas (PLADA), and articulated with the strategy and action plan of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC).

Synthesis and systematization of the contributions made in the subregional union activities of 2016 and 2017, including those made at the Preparatory Meeting of the Americas (Buenos Aires, February 2017). Likewise, the document presents the perspectives and strategies of the national organizations and the regional directorates of the international union federations participating in this cycle, and the identification of some serious cases of child labor. 

The report analyzes the main findings obtained in the child labor module incorporated in the 2016 National Household Survey (ENAHO), carried out by the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC) in coordination with the Ministry of Labor and Social Security of Costa Rica between July and August 2016. 

In September 2017, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Jamaica, Mexico and Peru, member countries of the Regional Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean free of child labor, presented in Brasilia (Brazil) the results of the implementation of the first stage of the Child Labor Risk Identification Model, a statistical tool to prevent child labor, designed jointly by the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean of the International Labor Organization (ILO) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). This document provides the main findings and future perspectives.

Fifth edition of the four-year series of ILO reports on global estimates, it outlines the path traveled to date and the distance that remains to be traveled to fulfill the commitment to end child labor. The report also describes the scale and main characteristics of child labor in the world today and the changes over time; In addition, the fundamental policy priorities for the year 2025 are analyzed, in coherence with the deadline set by target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).