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This website will provide you with information on IPEC activities, as
well as resource materials on child labour in South Asia. Please use the
table of contents on the left to access information.
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Highlights
Release: " Global Report on "The end of Child Labour: Within Reach"
New ILO Report shows
marked decline in child labour worldwide believes its worst forms can be eliminated in 10 years. Child Labour, especially in its worst forms, is in decline for the first time across the globe; this report provides new estimates of the number of child labourers worldwide and regionally, and analysing progress to date in the struggle against child labour.
 IPEC-funded theatre programme against child trafficking in Bangladesh
The Centre for Ethnic Children (CEC), a Bangladeshi NGO committed to
the protection of children's and women's rights, has started a year long
theatre programme against child trafficking, as part of the IPEC Project
for Combating Trafficking in Children in South Asia (TICSA). This programme
targets a rural audience of at least 125,000 in four districts in Bangladesh.
The programme's centre piece - The Broken Dreams (Shishu Pacherer Itikatha) -
relates real life stories of trafficked women and girls and addresses the wider
issues underlying the problem, such as lack of education and employment.
The Director of CEC, Zillur Rahman John, considers theatre a "catalyst
in bringing about (a positive) transformation" and affirms that "slow
but sure changes in tacking the child trafficking issue" have taken
place during the life time of the project where at least 25 children were
rescued after introduction of theatre during phase I.
Release: " A Decade of ILO-India Partnerships, Towards a
Future without Child labour (1992-2002)"
This new publication provides an overview of various programmes and
collaborative efforts undertaken by the ILO with the Government of
India, workers' and employers' organizations, and other partners.
It identifies some of the gaps, describes the evolving process of
work and attempts to capture lessons learnt and suggests priorities
for future action.
Child Labour in South Asia
As part of the efforts of building an information based on child
labour in South Asia, some information notes providing an overview
of the child labour situation and responses in the Subregion
(Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and South Asia
as a whole) have been developed and are now available both in printed and electronic version. |
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