UNICEF Links
To view how UNICEF is operating in South Asia see
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/southasia.html
http://www.unicef.org/rosa/
Country page links:
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/afghanistan.html
http://www.unicef.org/bangladesh/
http://www.unicef.org/bhutan/
http://www.unicef.org/maldives/
http://www.unicef.org/pakistan/
http://www.unicef.org/srilanka/
Publication by Region
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_pubs_sa.html
Resources Related to Thematic Areas
Trafficking
Combating Child Trafficking: Handbook for parliamentarians
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_33882.html
The Rescue, Recovery, Repatriation and Integration (RRRI) of trafficked children
South Asia in Action: Preventing and Responding to Child Trafficking – Summary Report
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2008
http://www.unicef.org/rosa/protection_1899.htm
South Asia in Action: Preventing and Responding to Child Trafficking – Child Rights-Based Programme Practices
UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, 2008
http://www.unicef.org/rosa/protection_1899.htm
UNICEF’s Innocenti Trafficking Database
http://www.childtrafficking.org/
Terre Des Hommes Global Child Trafficking database
http://www.childtrafficking.com/
SAARC Convention on Preventing and Combating the Trafficking in Women and Children for Prostitution (signed in Kathmandu on January 5, 2002).
http://www.saarc-sec.org/old/freepubs/conv-traffiking.pdf
Child Labour
Beyond Child Labour, Affirming Rights
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_4302.html
Child Marriage
Child Marriage: A Harmful Traditional Practice
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_26024.html
Child Marriage IN SOUTH ASIA [Word, 610,816]
http://www.unicef.org/rosa/earlymarriage(lastversion).doc
Sexual Exploitation
Profiting from abuse
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_5623.html
Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Trafficking of Children and Women in South Asia: Inter-agency Common Statement, 2004
http://www.unicef.org/rosa/protection_1899.htm
South Asia Strategy Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse of Children, 2001
http://www.unicef.org/rosa/protection_1899.htm
Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children: South Asia Consultation for the Second World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, 2001
http://www.unicef.org/rosa/protection_1899.htm
Violence Against Children
Eliminating Violence against Children
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_41040.html
Protection of children from violence, abuse and exploitation
http://www.unicef.org/rosa/protection_5668.htm
Mapping of Advocacy and Capacity Building Materials Addressing Issues of Violence, Abuse and Exploitation of Children in South Asia, 2003
http://www.unicef.org/rosa/protection_1899.htm
Regional Consultation on Violence Against Children in South Asia, Islamabad, Pakistan, 19-21 May 2005
http://www.unicef.org/rosa/protection_1899.htm
Needed: A New Model of Masculinity to Stop Violence Against Girls and Women. 1997
http://www.unicef.org/rosa/protection_1899.htm
UN Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children
For child protection in general
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_pubs_childprotection.html
In general
http://www.unicef.org/publications/index_5623.html
ILO
CHILD LABOUR
http://www.ilo.org/global/topics/child-labour/lang–en/index.htm
Key publications on Child Labour
http://www.ilo.org/ipec/Informationresources/lang–en/index.htm
1. The original version of ILO Convention No. 182 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour.
http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C182
2. The original version of ILO Convention No. 138 on the Minimum Age for Admission to Employment.
http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/cgi-lex/convde.pl?C138
3. Labour standards, supervisory bodies and procedures, reports
http://www.ilo.org/global/standards/lang–en/index.htm
4. ILO: Report of the Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations – ILC.100/III/1A
(Information on C.138 for Pakistan – p.365; on C.182 for Bangladesh – p.280; C.182 for Pakistan- p.367)
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/—relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_151556.pdf
4. ILO: General Survey concerning social security instruments in light of the 2008 Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization – ILC.100/III/1B (with specific reference to children: Part II. Towards a rights-based approach to social security – Ch 2B Family and child benefits are effective means for the abolition of child labour (pp 80-97)
http://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/—ed_norm/—relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_152602.pdf
5. ILO’s International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) – info and tools