This US Department of State-funded project has established a community collaborative of organisations and individuals who work with vulnerable children in the inner city of Johannesburg. The collaborative focuses on educating communities and key stakeholders on the problem of child trafficking and how to recognise it.
Read more...The TECL project was a joint initiative of the South African Government and the ILO to operationalise key action steps recommended by the Child Labour Action Programme (CLAP). World Education, Inc. and Khulisa Management Services were awarded a major contract to undertake a series of research and study activities.
Read more...Following reports of children being used to work under exploitive conditions in West African cocoa farms, the Harkin-Engel Protocol called for the creation of a certification process that would ensure that no abusive child labour would be used in cocoa production. Key components of this process include public reporting by each country on the worst forms of child labour including trafficking, and adult labour practices in the cocoa sector and the external verification of these reports. Khulisa and partner organisation Fafo AIS were contracted by the International Cocoa Verification Board to conduct this external verification.
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