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Social connection of street girls in the context of Dhaka City, Bangladesh
J Mozdalifa / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012
This year 2012, the theme of IWD is “CONNECTING GIRLS, INSPIRING FUTURES”. Following this theme, this paper is going to study about a deprived but major segment of girls who are street girls and their social connection in Dh...
Child labour and tobacco farming in Malawi
G. Clacherty / Plan, 2009
Malawi has the highest incidence of child labour in Southern Africa. 88.9% of children in the age group 5-14 work in the agricultural sector, where tobacco estates are highly represented. The number of children working on tobacco farm...
The nature and extent of child labour in Malawi
M. Tsoka; S. Konyani / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2003
Malawi is one of the countries selected to implement the International Labour Organisation/International Programme on the Elimination of Child’s Labour (ILO/IPEC’s) “Regional Programme on prevention, withdraw and reh...
How hunger contributes to child labour in Malawi
A.C. Munthali / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2003
In 2002, the majority of Malawians were seriously affected by famine, which was only comparable to the one that occurred in 1949. The occurrence of flooding in some areas of Malawi and incidences of prolonged dry spells in others, con...
Recommendations for ensuring access to education for the hard-to-reach children
A. Kielland; F. Rosati / Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2008
As the Education for All process is progressing, two main groups of children are still left out: those who  have yet to gain access to a good primary school; and, those who do not get to attend even when an adequate, affordable s...
The determinants of child labour in Afghanistan
A. Sim; M.L. Hoilund-Carlsen / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2009
Child labour anywhere in the world potentially harms child development. In Afghanistan too, child labour prevails despite government regulation that mandates the minimum working age as 15 for non-hazardous work and 18 f...
Adolescents and the Sustainable Livelihoods approach
N. Brown / United Nations Children's Fund, 2001
How can adolescents’ livelihoods be made sustainable rather than exploitative? How can the demands of work be better reconciled with educational, health and social needs? This paper, prepared for the Commonwealth Youth Programme...
How to end child labour in cocoa production?
International Labor Rights Forum, 2008
This document reviews the outcome of a policy instrument drafted in 2001, the “Protocol for the Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their Derivative Products,” also known as the Harkin-Engel Protocol. The ...
An overview of the children of seasonal migrants in India
Smita (first name only) / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2008
There are still many categories of children in India for whom adequate and appropriate strategies are not in place for their effective education. One such category are the children of seasonal migrants. This paper identifies...
Why might rural households in Afghanistan send their children out to work?
C. Bassett (ed); P. Hunte; A. Hozyainova / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2008
This case study is the second in a three-part series examining household decision making on the use of child labour in urban and rural Afghanistan. In contrast to the other two studies in the series, which were conducted in urban area...
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Social connection of street girls in the context of Dhaka City, Bangladesh
J Mozdalifa / Bangladesh Online Research Network, 2012
This year 2012, the theme of IWD is “CONNECTING GIRLS, INSPIRING FUTURES”. Following this theme, this paper is going to study about a deprived but major segment of girls who are street girls and their social connection in Dh...
Child labour and tobacco farming in Malawi
G. Clacherty / Plan, 2009
Malawi has the highest incidence of child labour in Southern Africa. 88.9% of children in the age group 5-14 work in the agricultural sector, where tobacco estates are highly represented. The number of children working on tobacco farm...
The nature and extent of child labour in Malawi
M. Tsoka; S. Konyani / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2003
Malawi is one of the countries selected to implement the International Labour Organisation/International Programme on the Elimination of Child’s Labour (ILO/IPEC’s) “Regional Programme on prevention, withdraw and reh...
How hunger contributes to child labour in Malawi
A.C. Munthali / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi, 2003
In 2002, the majority of Malawians were seriously affected by famine, which was only comparable to the one that occurred in 1949. The occurrence of flooding in some areas of Malawi and incidences of prolonged dry spells in others, con...
Recommendations for ensuring access to education for the hard-to-reach children
A. Kielland; F. Rosati / Institute for Applied International Studies, Norway, 2008
As the Education for All process is progressing, two main groups of children are still left out: those who  have yet to gain access to a good primary school; and, those who do not get to attend even when an adequate, affordable s...
The determinants of child labour in Afghanistan
A. Sim; M.L. Hoilund-Carlsen / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2009
Child labour anywhere in the world potentially harms child development. In Afghanistan too, child labour prevails despite government regulation that mandates the minimum working age as 15 for non-hazardous work and 18 f...
Adolescents and the Sustainable Livelihoods approach
N. Brown / United Nations Children's Fund, 2001
How can adolescents’ livelihoods be made sustainable rather than exploitative? How can the demands of work be better reconciled with educational, health and social needs? This paper, prepared for the Commonwealth Youth Programme...
How to end child labour in cocoa production?
International Labor Rights Forum, 2008
This document reviews the outcome of a policy instrument drafted in 2001, the “Protocol for the Growing and Processing of Cocoa Beans and their Derivative Products,” also known as the Harkin-Engel Protocol. The ...
An overview of the children of seasonal migrants in India
Smita (first name only) / Consortium for Research on Educational Access, Transitions and Equity, 2008
There are still many categories of children in India for whom adequate and appropriate strategies are not in place for their effective education. One such category are the children of seasonal migrants. This paper identifies...
Why might rural households in Afghanistan send their children out to work?
C. Bassett (ed); P. Hunte; A. Hozyainova / Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit, 2008
This case study is the second in a three-part series examining household decision making on the use of child labour in urban and rural Afghanistan. In contrast to the other two studies in the series, which were conducted in urban area...
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terre des hommes
terre des hommes Germany is an aid organisation focussing on children.
The Concerned for Working Children (CWC)

Promoting a society free of child labour

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