Success Stories
Through its work, ILAB positively affects the lives of workers, children, and families every day. Whether it's through our programming that provides direct services or drives systemic change, our policy engagement that champions the rights and voices of workers, or our trade enforcement that ensures our trading partners are living up to their labor obligations, ILAB does innovative work that lifts up workers' rights worldwide. Here are a few of the stories of our impact in the field.
FAIR Fish: Reducing Exploitation in the Seafood Processing Sector
- Forced labor
- Thailand
"The good part is that it helps us adjust our thinking about how to work."
Technology Supports 4,000 Children in and at Risk for Child Labor
- Child Labor
- Philippines
"We can immediately assess the needs of the children and whether they are still studying or not. So that’s the beauty of it."
Turning data into action to mitigate child labor
- Child Labor
- Mexico
"I never imagined there were so many children working," Ana says, noting that some child laborers she meets are as young as 10 years old.
Sweet Success for a Woman in Colombia’s Sugar Sector
- Training
- Colombia
"I have learned to believe more in myself to increase my confidence as an entrepreneurial woman," Yaneth says, reflecting on the training.
Making Police Training on Labor Exploitation More Sustainable
- Child Labor
- Training
- Argentina
"The ATLAS project gave me tools to improve my teaching."
— Officer Diana Ramirez
Luis
- Child Labor
- Disabilities and health issues
- Livelihoods services
- Education
- Training
- Ecuador
The school said he had behavior problems, but the issue was that they didn't understand the nature of his disability or how to work with his disability.