Welcome from organizers
Recent initiatives supported by the US Department of State
Keynote 1 – From Research to Action: Improving the Policy Impact of Academic Research
Most academic research around issues such as child labour, forced labour, and human trafficking aims to have an impact on the design or implementation of public policy.
Child marriage as a form of human trafficking in Tanzania: A human rights perspective
This research aims to study child marriage as a form of human trafficking in Tanzania from a human rights perspective.
Unravelling the Normative Underpinnings of Child Labor in Ghana: A Bottom-Up Study Among Hotspot Communities
Increasingly, research points toward the need to identify the socio-cultural norms of child labor as a primary measure to understand the localized risk factors underpinning child labor and better inform interventions.
Advancing a Child Rights Informed Approach to Antislavery Policy and Practice
This systematic evidence review will examine the intersections between two distinct, and traditionally separate, fields of academic research - children’s rights and modern slavery - to take understandings of both fields in new directions and deliver new theoretical insights that will help reshape practice.
Welcome from organizers
Introducing the Research to Action (RTA) Global Research Agenda and Policy Intervention Guidance (PIG) tool
Globalization and Child Labour
Expanded access to foreign capital could be a tool to unlock economic growth in low-income countries and consequently many low and middle-income countries have sought to increase foreign capital flows.
Culture / Behaviour change campaigns
This session will discuss cultural and behavioral causes and drivers of, and agents of change to reduce, various forms of child labour and forced labour.
Identifying risk factors and vulnerabilities
This session explores the risk factors for child labour, forced labour, human trafficking, and modern slavery in three distinct contexts with the goal of identifying evidence-based solutions.