Gauri Pradhan - Research, Training and Publications

Research, Training and Publications

As a researcher, Gauri Pradhan has coordinated a number of research programmes on child rights issues, such as child labour, child protection, child education, social security, and on human trafficking and labour issues. He has been the coordinator of the Street Children's Project Review Team in Colombo, Sri Lanka, 1992, Convener of the Technical Committee on Children of the National Council of Women and Children, HMG/Nepal in 1996. He has also coordinated some international seminars- workshops and conference held in Nepal and abroad.

Gauri Pradhan has written, edited and published several books. Some of his selected publications are:

1. State of Children in Nepal (1998, 1999, 2000)
2. Misery Behind the Looms (1993)
3. Urban Child Labour in Nepal (1992)
4. Child Labour in Nepal (1993)
5. Trafficking in Young Girls in Across Indo-Nepal Border (1992)
6. Back Home from Brothels (1996 & 1997)
7. Juvenile Justice in Nepal (1998)
8. Unfair and Exploitative Labour Relations (1998)
9. Child Sex Abuse in Nepal (1999)
10. Management of Child Care Centers (1999)
11. Children under the Whirlpool of War (2002)
12. Children and Peace (2004)
13. Child Protection (2004)
14. Children and Religion (2005)

He has written, presented and published more than 200 working papers and academic articles on the rights issues, federalism, human rights, democracy, labour, conflict transformation, peace building and social justice.

He was the founding member and President of National Labour Academy, a research and resource centre for labour and development issues. He was one of the research advisers to the Rapid Assessment of the Worst Form of Child Labour jointly undertaken by the Central Department of Population Studies (CDPS, Tribhuwan University) and ILO in 1998.

Gauri Pradhan has so far trained over 1000 people from the government, law enforcing agencies, judiciary, NGOs, university, mass media and community organizations on the subjects of human rights, child rights, labour relations, trafficking, conflict transformation and development in the country and abroad.