The Department of Labor's Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT), where I currently intern, has invited any interested public policy students to attend the big launch event of its Child and Forced Labor reports next Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 10:00 a.m.
This is a great opportunity to learn about government efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Department of Labor Secretary Solis will be joined by Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director For Development and Democracy, and Ian Solomon, U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank.
Below is a formal invitation and flyer. I hope some of you can make it! If you think you may attend, please RSVP at OCFT@dol.gov.
On behalf of U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, the the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Bureau of International Labor Affairs would like to invite you to our launch of three new child labor and forced labor reports, and a discussion of how these issues affect long-term poverty reduction. The event will also highlight a new tool for evaluating countries’ efforts to eliminate the worst forms of child labor. Secretary Solis will be joined by Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director For Development and Democracy, and Ian Solomon, U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank. The event will take place on Wednesday, September 26, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. in DOL’s César E. Chávez Auditorium.
The reports include the annual Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor pursuant to the Trade and Development Act of 2000, List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor pursuant to the Trafficking Victims Protection and Reauthorization Act of 2005, and the List of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor purusant to the Executive Order 13126 of 1999 on the "Prohibition of Acquisition of Products Produced by Forced or Indentured Child Labor.”
Please RSVP by Monday, September 24 at 12:00 p.m. to OCFT@dol.gov. On the day of the event, guests are asked to arrive by 9:45 a.m. at the 3rd and C street entrance. For questions regarding the event, please e-mail OCFT@dol.gov For those of you unable to join us in person, the event will also be on live webcast at the following link: http://www.dol.gov/live/
Sincerely,
Marcia Eugenio
Director, Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking
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