Resources

Between July 2017 and June 2018, researchers commissioned and coordinated by the International Labour Organization (ILO) through a partnership with the Labour Prosecutor’s Office (MPT) visited the main cocoa producing areas in Brazil, where a series of interviews was conducted with local communities.

This study by the Global Child Forum proposes a set of 10 approaches which businesses can use to respond to risks of child labour in their operations and supply chains.

This commentary by ICI summarises the "Bitter sweets" report’s main findings and recommendations. It includes analysis of the implications of these findings and places them in the context of current and planed initiatives by governments, civil society and industry.

This paper examines six common perceptions around unconditional cash transfer programming using evaluations from sub-Saharan Africa. It looks at the perception that transfers lead to higher alcohol or tobacco use, create dependency and are fiscally unsustainable.

The Walk Free Foundation, an Australian organisation dedicated to ending contemporary slavery and human trafficking, issued the 2018 version of their “Global Slavery Index” on 19 July 2018. The index provides a country by country ranking of the number of people in modern slavery, as well as an analysis of the actions governments are taking to respond, and the factors that make people vulnerable. This year, the Global Slavery Index featured a chapter on forced labour related to cocoa in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.