Child labour

Projects

Crossing borders. The report Crossing borders presents the results of a study on foreign prostitution in Oslo, focusing on women from Eastern and Central Europe. The main goals of the study have been twofold: 1) Estimate the number of women selling sexual services and the distribution of different nationalities in various arenas of the sex market; 2) Explore the mechanisms involved in trafficking of women for sexual exploitation. 2003-2004

A life of one's own. A rights-based approach to the rehabilitation of victims of trafficking in Serbia" The project is related to victimisation and needs assessment among women and children in Serbia who have been trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation, and is carried out by Fafo AIS in collaboration with Victimology Society of Serbia and Sør-Trøndelag University College (Faculty of Health Care and Social Professions, Department of Social Work Programme). 2004

Achievements and setbacks in the fight against child labour. A follow-up of the Oslo conference 1997, with an evaluation of the achievements of the "Agenda for Action". 2003.
Fafo-publication (forthcoming), Achievements and setbacks in the fights against child labour

Child trafficking in West Africa. A study of child trafficking and the traditional practice of child relocation in Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana. 2003.
Fafo-publication (forthcoming), Travel to uncertainity: A study of child relocation in Burkina Faso, Ghana; and Mali

Child trafficking in Central and Eastern Europe. The aim was to develop methods and training material for local researchers in four different countries in Central and Eastern Europe. 2002.

Child labour in Syria. A description and analysis of child labour in Syria based on data from Syria Migration Survey. 2002.
Publication prepared by Fafo: Magnitude and Characteristics of Working Children in Syria (pdf 597k)

Child-slaves in West Africa. Descriptive memorandum. 2001.
Fafo-publication: Grimsrud, B., Huitfeldt, A., Kielland, A., Sommerfelt, T., Child-slaves and child migration in West Africa

Child Soldiers in Central Africa. The aim was to develop methods and training material for local researchers in four different countries in Central Africa. 2001-2002.
Publication prepared by Fafo: L'Utilisation des Enfants dans les Conflits armés en Afrique Centrale: Manuel pour l'Évaluation Rapide. Genève: Programme International pour l'abolition du travail des enfants: BIT-IPEC

Child domesticity in Haiti. The aim was to increase the understanding of the situation and living conditions for children growing up away from their biological parents, seen in the risk group for being exploited as labour force. Analyses based on data from Haiti Living Condition Survey and additional qualitative fieldwork. 2001-2002.
Publication prepared by Fafo (Tone Sommerfelt, ed), Les fondements de la pratique de la domesticité des enfants en Haïti. Republique d'Haiti/Ministère des Affaires Sociales et du Travail; PNUD; UNICEF; OIT/IPEC; Save the Children Canada; Save the Children UK; Fafo. Summary

Child domestic workers in Morocco. A study of child domestic workers in Morocco, 2000-2001.
Fafo-publication: Domestic Child Labour in Morocco (pdf 427k)

Education and gender differentiation in Tunisia. Focus on education among young girls and the reason for them to quit school (e.g. other work), 1999-2001.
Fafo-publication: Gender Equality in Tunisia and Norway/Egalité des sexes en Tunisie et Norvège

Tobacco tenants in Malawi. A study of working and living conditions among the tobacco tenants in Malawi with a special focus on child labour, 1999-2001.
Fafo-publication: The Smoking Business. Tobacco tenants in Malawi (pdf 1.3MB)

Yemen - child labour. Working conditions and the children's background, 1997.
Publication prepared by Fafo (Bjørne Grimsrud), 1998, Working Children in Yemen. Who are they? A Study of Child Labour in Yemen. ILO, Geneva

Other activities

The economics of child labour. A Child Labour Conference at Fafo, 2002.

Evaluation of employer's action plan to combat child labour. Participation in an evaluation of child labour in different countries. 2002.

Child labour and responsibility of the business community. A seminar held by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2001.
Fafo-publication: Child labour and responsibility of the business community (in Norwegian)

Background paper on Children in Armed Conflict for UNSRCAAC. An overview of status on research on children that are affected by armed conflicts, and the methodological challenges. 2001.

Workshop on research agenda about children and armed conflict in Firenze. 2001. Paper presented by Jon Pedersen and Tone Sommerfelt.
Publication: What should we know about children and armed conflict and how should we go about knowing it? The impact of armed conflict on children: Filling the knowledge gaps

Child labour. Background document. Part of the preparation to the Child Labour Conference arranged by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affaires in Oslo 1997.
Fafo publication: Child Labour in Africa. Poverty or institutional failures? The cases of Egypt and Zimbabwe

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