Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT) Publications
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Trade & Development Act Annual Reports
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 Reports
Executive Order 13126 Reports
Advancing the Campaign Against Child Labor Series
- Advancing the Campaign Against Child Labor: The Resource Allocations of National Governments and International Financial Institutions 2004
- Advancing the Campaign Against Child Labor: Addressing the Worst Forms of Child Labor 2002
- Advancing the Campaign Against Child Labor: Efforts at the Country Level 2002
- Advancing the Global Campaign Against Child Labor: Progress Made and Future Actions 2001
Extramural Research
- Haitian Construction Workers in the Dominican Republic: An Exploratory Study on Indicators of Forced Labor 2012 (PDF)
- Urban Child Labor in Port-au-Prince, Haiti 2012 (PDF)
- Child Labor in Domestic Service ("Restaveks") in Port-au-Prince, Haiti 2012 (PDF)
- Working Children in Agriculture in Haiti, Sud Department 2012 (PDF)
- Child Domestic Labor in Egypt 2012 (PDF)
- Child Labor in the Small-scale Gold Mining Industry in Suriname 2012 (PDF)
- Child Labor in the Fishing Industry in Uganda 2011 (PDF)
- Research on Indicators of Forced Labor 2011
- Research on children working in the carpet industry of India, Nepal and Pakistan 2007
- Summary of Findings from the Child Labor Surveys in the Cocoa Sector of West Africa 2002 (PDF)
- Quantitative research and impact evaluations conducted by ICF (including public-use data sets)
By the Sweat & Toil of Children Series
- By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume VI An Economic Consideration of Child Labor 2000
- By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume V Efforts to Eliminate Child Labor 1998
- By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume IV Consumer Labels and Child Labor 1997
- The Apparel Industry and Codes of Conduct: A Solution to the International Child Labor Problem? 1996
- By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume II The Use of Child Labor in U.S. Agricultural Imports & Forced and Bonded Child Labor 1995
- By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Volume I The Use of Child Labor in U.S. Manufactured and Mined Imports 1994
Other Child Labor Publications
- Faces of Change: Highlights of U.S. Department of Labor Efforts to Combat International Child Labor 2009 (PDF)
- Linking Theory and Practice to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor 2006 (PDF)
- Focus on Children Newsletter 2002
- Advancing the Global Campaign Against Child Labor: Progress Made and Future Actions 2000
- Forced Labor: the Prostitution of Children:
Symposium Proceedings 1996
- Only available in hard copy, please contact OCFT for a copy
For copies of Public Hearings on Child Labor (1994-1999), please contact OCFT.