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Background Documents for SGA 02-04

1. Project Document for “Program to Prevent and Progressively Eliminate Child Labor in Small- scale Traditional Gold Mining in South America
2. Bolivia Country Report
3. Perú Country Report
4. Programa IPEC-Minería Artesanal en América del Sur, “El Trabajo Infantil en la Minería Artesanal del Oro
5. Estudios sobre el Trabajo Infantil en la Minería: Caso Potosí
6. Piazza, Maria del Carmen, “Children Working in Small-scale Traditional Gold-Mining in Perú”, 2001 English, Spanish
7. Zamora and Barrera, “Rendimiento escolar y estado nutricional," Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deportes, (http://www.vieps.gov.bo)
8. Bolivia. CEBIAE. Centro Boliviano (http://www.cebiae.edu.bo)
9. UNESCO: Education for All Country Reports (http://www2.unesco.org/wef/countryreports/country_all.html).