Summary:

The children of the Makkala Panchayats, of the eight Panchayats in Karnataka, that we are working in took a decision to define what was good or bad for them.

They decided that their definition should form the basis of all interventions in these Panchayats towards these Panchayats becoming 'child labour free'. This series of publications is primarily intended for the children who wrote it. However, we felt that this would be of interest to other children and practitioners working in the field of child labour, children's rights and promoting children's participation.

Previous Training Materials items

• 01/02/2002: Recommendation Adopted by the Committee on the Rights of the Child on Methods of Work
• 01/01/2002: Child-to-Child Primary Health Readers
• 01/01/2002: Workshop report on HRE issues in Human Rights NGOs
• 01/01/2002: Rapport d'un atelier sur les questions des droits de l'homme dans les ONG
• 04/12/2001: Training Guide

Organisation Contact Details:

Concerned for Working Children
303/2 L.B. Shastri Nagar
Vimanapura post
Bangalore 560017
Tel: 00 91 80 523 4611
Email: cwc@pobox.com
Website: www.workingchild.org

Last updated 03/12/2013 13:42:16

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Your Feedback

Dr.TC Chandran wrote on 12/08/2010:
In my opinion, what we can do is to have a database which tells us why the children are being forced to work. There may be several reasons like no family income, the parents have no work, the parents are sick, the children have no parents, the greed of the employers to make more money at the expense of cheap child labour, etc, etc.

Once we know the exact reasons, we will have the opportunity to focus on concrete areas, and then seek solutions to prevent child labour.