When the CLARISSA team first started working in the community in 2020, COVID-19 was already prevalent in Bangladesh – many…
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Finally telling their stories
Every child who works as a child labourer in Bangladesh’s leather industry has a story to tell. A story of…
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…
Ensuring ethics in life story collection during COVID times
As the first step in CLARISSA’s systemic action research, we collected life stories from children during the pandemic. The life…
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….
Listening to working children is a legal obligation – not a choice
If the International Year for the Elimination of Child Labour truly seeks to help working children then policymakers will listen…
The pandemic pushes more children into the Worst Forms of Child Labour
I met Rafique*, while he was taking a small break and drinking tea at the roadside. I was collecting life…
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…
Live Twitter chat: Building a picture of worst forms of child labour: Life stories from the ground
On Universal Children’s Day, Danny Burns, Director, CLARRISA and Pragya Lasmal, Senior Participatory Action Researcher, CLARISSA join @IDS_UK in a Twitter Live…