ILAB in Brazil

US – Brazil Labor Cooperation
The United States and Brazil have established a framework to promote hemispheric collaboration on labor matters to ensure equitable economic growth, promoting employment, social protection, protecting labor rights, and strengthening social dialogue.
Projects
Title | Amount | Grantee | Start Sort ascending | End |
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Worker Empowerment in South AmericaThe Worker Empowerment in South America project seeks to improve respect for labor rights in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru by strengthening democratic, independent workers' organizations in the agricultural, platform (gig) economy, manufacturing, and mining sectors. |
$12,000,000 | Solidarity Center | 12/15/2022 | 12/14/2026 |
Project to Increase Worker Voice and Address Forced Labor, Child Labor, and Other Labor Violations in Cattle Raising Areas of Brazil and ParaguayThe Project to Increase Worker Voice and Address Forced Labor, Child Labor, and Other Labor Violations in Cattle Raising Areas of Brazil and Paraguay will help to increase collective action by workers organizations (WOs) and civil society organizations (CSOs) to address forced labor, child labor, and other labor violations in cattle raising areas of Brazil and Paraguay, specifically in the Brazilian State of Mato Grosso do Sul and in the Paraguayan Department of Boquerón in the Chaco region. |
$5,000,000 | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/15/2022 | 12/14/2026 |
Cooperation On Fair, Free, Equitable Employment (COFFEE) ProjectThe United States is the leading importer of coffee, accounting for over 18 percent of total coffee imports in the world, with Brazil and Colombia as the top suppliers. But before that coffee reaches our cups, tens of millions of workers globally select, pick, and process the beans. Many of those workers are children – toiling in the fields rather than learning in school. |
$2,200,000 | Verité | 12/01/2017 | 06/30/2023 |
Measurement, Awareness-Raising, and Policy Engagement (MAP 16) Project on Child Labor and Forced LaborThe United States supports the goal of bringing meaningful change to the lives of the 152 million child laborers and the 25 million adults and children in forced labor around the world by eradicating child labor, forced labor and human trafficking. |
$23,945,000 | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/09/2016 | 12/31/2023 |
Consolidating and Disseminating Efforts to Combat Forced Labor in Brazil and PeruVulnerable populations in rural and urban areas are victims of forced labor in Brazil and Peru. They endure abusive working conditions, debt bondage, deception, intimidation and threats, and restriction of movement, among other unlawful labor practices. Some victims of forced labor have been rescued from forced-labor conditions within agricultural supply chains or manufacturing businesses with domestic and global reach.
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$6,800,000 | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 12/26/2012 | 12/31/2018 |
Global Action Program (GAP) on Child Labor Issues |
$15,900,000 | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 10/31/2011 | 11/30/2017 |
Combating the Worst Forms of Child Labor Through Horizontal Cooperation in South AmericaTo contribute to the elimination of the worst forms of child labor among racially and socially excluded populations — primarily Afro-descendants and indigenous— through horizontal cooperation. |
$6,750,000 | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 09/30/2009 | 09/30/2013 |
Supporting the Achievement of a Child Labor-Free State in Bahia, Brazil |
$4,900,000 | International Labor Organization (ILO) | 09/29/2008 | 09/29/2013 |
Labor Law Compliance - Brazil |
$1,500,000 | Catholic Relief Services (CRS) | 09/29/2004 | 09/29/2008 |
Combating Trafficking for Forced Labor in Brazil |
$1,500,000 | Catholic Relief Services (CRS) | 09/29/2004 | 09/29/2008 |