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DOL Releases New ILAB Reports on
International Child Labor and Forced Labor

A project partner discusses the hazards of quarrying with parents and their children in a stone quarry in Zakpota, Benin.

September 26 — DOL today released three reports on child labor and/or forced labor in foreign countries. Included in the release is the 11th edition of the annual Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, a report mandated by the Trade and Development Act of 2000 that provides information on the efforts of certain U.S. trade beneficiary countries to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. The 11th edition includes assessments of each country's advancements in the elimination of the worst forms of child labor, and continues to highlight the major findings related to each government's efforts as well as provide country-specific suggestions for actions that would help combat the problems each country is facing.

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