Publications

October 2011

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   Format to identify and document good practices on child labour in agriculture: Protecting children and youth in rural areas by promoting social dialogue with youth members of trade unions, Brazil

May 2010

1. Engaging the public health sector in the fight against child labour

   The Brazilian Ministry of Health is engaging itself in the fight against child labour. Through training, health care professionals are better at identifying workplace accidents and health consequences related to hazardous child labour.

January 2008

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   Brazil: Child labour data country brief

   Child labour country brief on current data from SIMPOC surveys based on common indicators

September 2007

1. Measuring child labour: Discussion note for country consultation in Brazil

   This note discusses some of the issues arising when attempting to define a statistical standard for child labour in the specific context of Brazil. It provides an overview of themeasurement challenges encountered, of the empirical and other evidence that can be used to address such challenges, and of the implications in terms of child labourestimates. The note provided a technical background for the consultations undertaken byILO-IPEC and UCW with national counterparts in February 2007.

June 2006

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   Round table discussion on the Ministerial Declaration and Plan of Action against child labour of the Community of Portuguese speaking countries

   International Labour ConferencePalais des Nations - Geneva8 June 200618:15 - 19:45

December 2005

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   Prevention and withdrawal in the Triple Border Area (Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay) (CSEC Good Practices)

   Examines good practices, lessons learned and methodologies to prevent the recruitment of girls, boys and adolescents for CSEC as well as results and challenges focussed on the local context in which the different programmes were carried out in 2001-2005.This document is part of the CD-ROM "Collection of good practices and lessons learned related to the prevention and elimination of commercial sexual exploitation". (CD-ROM is available in this data base.)

July 2005

1. Collection of good practices and lessons learned related to the prevention and elimination of commercial sexual exploitation (Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay Triple Border Area) (CD-ROM)

   This CD-ROM presents good practices and experiences from a technical cooperation project working to curtail commercial sexual exploitation of young people in the Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay border area. It addresses law enforcement in each of the countries, awareness-raising and institutional mechanisms, preventive measures and proposes alternative income generation.(This is an .exe file. Please download to your hard drive and unzip it. Then Burn all files in a CD-rom.)

March 2005

1. Impact of childrens work on school attendance and performance: a review of school survey evidence from five countries

   The paper presents a descriptive overview of the association between work involvement and schooling for five countries. It also examines causal links between work involvement and school by using regression analyses. The countries included in the analysis are Brazil, Kenya, Turkey, Lebanon and Sri Lanka.

January 2005

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   Awareness raising and institutional strengthening in the Triple Border Area (Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay) (CSEC Good Practices)

   This book compiles lessons learned and good practices related to awareness raising and institutional strengthening. It analyzes the local context and culture, as well as rights and wrongs of the adopted strategiesin order to combat and prevent CSECin this triple border area.This document is part of the CD-ROM "Collection of good practices and lessons learned related to the prevention and elimination of commercial sexual exploitation" (CD-ROM is available in this data base).

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   Income generation (CSEC Good Practices)

   It shows the importance of this kind of support as an alternative to substitute the income generated by CSEC; and it presents the difficulties and obstacles found in the triple border to find a successful strategy in this field. This document is part of the CD-ROM "Collection of good practices and lessons learned related to the prevention and elimination of commercial sexual exploitation" (CD-ROM is available in this data base).