Achievements
The first and most important work that CWIN did was to translate the draft UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into Nepali in 1987. In 1988, it organised the first South Asian Seminar-Workshop on Working Children. This provided an opportunity to discuss issues like child servitude and other urgent, child-related issues at the regional level, and to expand the reach of CWIN. In 1991 CWIN published its research paper Urban Child Labour, which included a wide coverage of the status of children throughout Nepal. In 1993, CWIN organised a major study programme of children at risk, such as street children, those working in different sectors, especially the carpet industry, young victims of trafficking and prostitution, and children in debt bondage. In 1994, it opened the CWIN Children's Home, a transit centre for children at risk: CWIN Balika.
In 1996, CWIN rescued 130 Nepali girls from the red light districts in Bombay and repatriated them, publishing Back Home Brothels, the real story of trafficked girls. In 1997, CWIN’s 10th anniversary was celebrated by organizing several programmes for children. In the same year CWIN published a year-book report on the State of the Rights of the Child in Nepal. In 2000, on International Day of the Rights of the Child, and for the first time in the history of Nepal, CWIN established an emergency relief and counseling service for children at risk: CWIN Help-Line.
As well as all these milestones, CWIN also organised many programmes. An example is The Local Action against Alcohol and Drugs, a knowledge-based awareness and advocacy programme to reduce the abuse of substances in society, especially among children in Nepal. CWIN has also been investing in "Action Research" since the beginning of the children's rights movement in Nepal. CWIN runs a national Resource and Information Centre with wide coverage on children's rights, child labour, trafficking, etc.
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