In May 2022, the CLARISSA Nepal team organised a conversation between child labour experts, hosted by Nepal Live Today. The…
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Addressing Child Labour in South Asia: Emerging insights from a cross-institutional collaboration
Emerging insights from a cross-institutional collaboration A side event to the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour…
Child labour is rife in adult entertainment businesses in Nepal
As CLARISSA launches its campaign ‘Shift the Focus: The Small Business of Child Labour’ we are asking why this matters…
Building rapport for action research with the community in Bangladesh
When the CLARISSA team first started working in the community in 2020, COVID-19 was already prevalent in Bangladesh – many…
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…