Every child who works as a child labourer in Bangladesh’s leather industry has a story to tell. A story of…
Participatory
Designing a Participatory Programme at Scale: Phases 1 and 2 of the CLARISSA Programme on Worst Forms of Child Labour
CLARISSA (Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia) is a large-scale Participatory Action Research programme which aims to identify,…
Bonded: Life Stories from Agricultural Communities in South-Eastern Nepal
In the Terai region of South-Eastern Nepal, there persists a form of agricultural bonded labour called Harwa-Charwa, rooted in agricultural…
Safeguarding the mental health of children in child labour in Nepal
According to the ILO, 79 million children are in “hazardous work in the world (pdf)”, which poses an immediate danger…
How can we tackle child labour by 2025?
On the World Day Against Child Labour, there is a call to action to end child labour by 2025, in…
We want to fly fearless like this bird
In March, the CLARISSA Bangladesh team organised a participatory training workshop for the children who would facilitate the life story…
Bringing children into the life story collection process
At the beginning of March, the CLARISSA Nepal team worked with children to support the collection of their life stories….
Tired and Trapped: Life Stories from Cotton Millworkers in Tamil Nadu
Labour abuse in the garment industry has been widely reported. This qualitative research explores the lived experiences in communities with…
5 reflections on operationalising CLARISSA to generate evidence
As we start a new year, and especially, as 2021 is the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour,…
Separating the emotional from the practical in writing up life stories
As part of the Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia Bangladesh team, it is my role to collect…