From the Digital Asia Library

Return to South Asia Web Sites Worth Considering

Labor

• All India Central Council of Trade Unions
  http://www.cpiml.org/pgs/frontorg/aicctu/aicctu.htm

  Website of the socialist committee that represents the All India Peasants Coordinating Committee, All India Students Association, Revolutionary Youth Association, All India Progressive Women's Association, Indian Institute of Marxist Studies, Inquilabi Muslim Conference, Jan Sanskriti Manch, Autonomous State Demand Committee.



• Bonded labour in Pakistan
  http://www.antislavery.org/archive/submission
  /submission1999-08Pakistan.htm

  Report issued by the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human Rights Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and protection of Minorities, Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery in 1999. The report concentrates upon legal issues and discusses the plight of workers in the brick kilns of Punjab and agricultural laborers in Sindh.



• Centre for Education and Communication
  http://www.labourfile.org/cec/cec_home.htm

  The Centre for Education and Communication serves as a resource center for labor, particularly the unorganised and informal sectors in India. In 1992 it launched the Campaign Against Child Labour. More recently it formed the National Campaign on Labour Rights, the Women Workers in fish Processing Industry, and, the Fact Finding on Tea Plantation Labour.



• Centre for Policy Dialogue
  http://www.cpd-bangladesh.org/onres.html

  Founded in 1993 the Centre for Policy Discourse is a think tank that works to secure stakeholder acceptance and participation in Bangladesh's development.through its goals of contributing towards people’s awareness about policy issues affecting their lives and the future of their country, and, creating a national climate for public discussion of important policy issues with a view to building up broad based support for such policies.



• CWIN-Nepal
  http://www.cwin-nepal.org/

  Organized by university students, CWIN-Nepal works for the abolition of child bonded labour/children in servitude and for the progressive elimination of child labour in general. It promotes and protects childrens rights and organizes campaigns against trafficking and sale of children, child marriage, child bonded labour and all forms of crime against children. Has established the following: CWIN Socialization Centre (1989) for street children; CWIN Centre for children at Risk (1995) for the rescue, relief, and rehabilitation of boys over age 10; CWIN Centre for Girls at Risk (1995) a transit center for girls; CWIN Educational Support Programme (1992); CWIN Centre for Self-reliance (1995) a training center for children over 14; CWIN Student Hostel (1998) for school-sponsored events; CWIN Health Clinic and Counselling Service (1992) which serves 30 children a day; CWIN Help line (1998) for emergency relief and counseling for victims of abuse and violence; and, CWIN Socialization Centre, Pokhara (1995) for the children of that city.



• Green Revolution and the Growth of the Informal Sector in Bangladesh
  http://www.cdr.dk/working_papers/wp-96-8.htm

  A report of the Center for Development Research, Copenhagen, by Kirsten Westergaard and Abul Hossain of a 1996 re-study of the village of Barind in northern Bangladesh on new income opportunities for the rural poor involved in the agricultural sector.



• Indianlabour.com
  http://www.indianlabour.com/indianlm.htm

  An informational site maintained by Labour Herald and Tribune Features including daily issues of Labour Herald, a modest chronology of labor issues in India since 1851, lists of labor organiztions, and bibliographies.



• Informal Sector Service Center
  http://www.hri.ca/partners/insec/

  Founded in 1988, the Informal Sector Service Senter (INSEC) has established district centers throughout Nepal to monitor human rights issues, organize workshops, prepare bibliographies, and develop radio programs. A particular area of focus is combating slavery, especially the bonded agricultural laborers in Kamaiyas



• Informal Sector Street Foods, Pune, India
  http://www.idrc.ca/cfp/facts16_e.html

  The report, issued by the Canadian-based International Development Resource Centre, describes an 1988-90 project undertaken when the city of Pune initiated the licensing of street food vendors.



• Institutional support for informal sector
  http://www.pakistaneconomist.com/database1
  /macro-economy/macro-economy-58.htm

  A followup to the 1990 seminar on the Informal Sector in Pakistan, the site provides an outline of questions, observations, and recommendations relating to the real and potential contributions various agencies make in the informal sector.



• Lies, damned lies, and numbers
  http://www.himalmag.com/jan97/lies.htm

  An article by Dilli R. Dahal, Centre for Nepal and Asian Studies, Kathmandu, that appeared in the Jan/Feb 1997 issue of Himal on Nepali laborers in India.



• Life in chains: bonded labour: tortured and terrorised, five men suffered in fetters in a stone quarry for two years
  http://www.the-week.com/20jul09/events1.htm

  An article in 9 July 2000 issue of The week by Soorya Prakash on the experiences of five Dalit men in Karnataka who were forced into working in a stone quarry.



• National Cooperative Union of India
  http://ncui.nic.in/vsncui/info.htm

  The National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) promotes and develops the cooperative movement in India, educates, guides, and assists the people in their efforts, strengthens and expands the cooperative sector, and serves as an exponent of cooperative opinion in accordance with cooperative principles.



• National Labour Academy
  http://www.nlanepal.org/Index.html

  Established in 1995 as a non-partisan, non-profit, NGO, the National Labour Academy-Nepal works for the enhancement of the labor movement and the welfare of laborers. Additional responsibilities include serving as a research center for research on national development and participatory planning.



• Pulling the rug out from under us: a report on debt bondage, carpet-making, and child slavery in India
  http://www.anti-slavery.org/global/india/index.html

  This report of Swati Mehta, Tufts University, states India has some 44 million workers under the age of 13, with 300,000 in the carpet-making industry and at least 5 million children in bonded labor. Areas in which child debt bondages occur most frequently include agriculture, prostitution, clothing and textile manufacturing, silk production, the leather industry, match-making, glass blowing, gemstone polising, salt production, cigarette (bidi) rollowing, soccer ball stitching, fireworks industry, and, the hand-knotted carpet-making industry, the focus of this report.



• Rural development social workers in India
  http://www.indianngos.com/issue/rural/ruraldevelopmentsocialworker.htm

  An overview of government and non-government programs in rural areas with lists, directories, compendiums for topics such as: concerned citizens, consultants, donor organizations, experts, funding agencies, government schemes, speeches, and social workers volunteers.



• Rural Reconstruction Nepal
  http://www.rrn.org.np/

  Founded in 1989, Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN) has worked with volunteers and other non government agencies to involve over 600,000 villagers in development activities.



• Sahil
  http://www.sahil.org/

  Sahil works on child sexual abuse and exploitation in Pakistan. This includes undertaking research, awareness raising, legal advocacy, intervention training, crisis intervention, free legal and medical aid for victims, publications, and the establishment of a resource centre.



• SEWA Bank A women's self-help organization for poverty alleviation in India
  http://www.hsd.ait.ac.th/bestprac/sewa.htm

  The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), founded in Ahmedabad in 1971 has long been a leader in assisting women in the informal sector. The SEWA Bank by 1995, the latest year for which information is available, had 46,924 accounts with 70 million rupees and had lent 100 million rupees to 22,538 women.



• South Asian Coalition on Child Servitude Crusade Against Child Labour
  http://www.saccsweb.org/

  The South Asia Coalition on Child Servitude (SACCS) undertakes direct actions against child labor through rescue and rehabilitation programs and indirect actions such as demonstrations and campaigns against selected segments of the labor force.



• Women's Bank in Sri Lanka
  http://www.hsd.ait.ac.th/bestprac/womenbnk.htm

  The Women's Bank emerged out of a pilot project of women's mutual help groups initiated by the National Housing Development Authority (NHDA) of Sri Lanka in 1989. Based on the traditional system of savings and credit, known in Sri Lanka as seettu, in which the women pool and share their resources. By 1995, the last year for which statistics are available, there were 560 such informal women's banks.



• Women's Bureau
  http://www.womens-affairs.gov.lk/wb/wb.html

  The Women's Bureau, part of the Ministry of Ministry of Women's Affairs of the government of Sri Lanka works for the improvement of living standards and empowerment of Sri Lankan women by providing knowledge, opportunities and resources for them to utilise their full potential and to ensure their equal rights in the educational, socio-economic, political legal and cultural spheres. Areas in which it is active include the Gender Complaint Center, Trafficking of women, and, Violence against women.



• Worst forms of child labour data - Afghanistan
  http://www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/afghanistan.html

  Series of one-two factual sentences related to child labor in Afghanistan with source of information noted and link provided if derived from an online site. Divided into the following categories: total child labour, child slavery, child trafficking, child prostitution, children in crime, child soldiers, domestic child servants, and, other hazardous child labour.



• Worst forms of child labour data - Bangladesh
  http://www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/bangladesh.html

  Series of one-two factual sentences related to child labor in Bangladesh with source of information noted and link provided if derived from an online site. Divided into the following categories: total child labour, child slavery, child trafficking, child prostitution, children in crime, child soldiers, domestic child servants, and, other hazardous child labour.



• Worst forms of child labour data - India
  http://www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/india.html

  Series of one-two factual sentences facts related to child labor in India with source of information noted and link provided if derived from an online site. Divided into the following categories: total child labour, child slavery, child trafficking, child prostitution, children in crime, child soldiers, domestic child servants, and, other hazardous child labour.



• Worst forms of child labour data - Nepal
  http://www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/nepal.html

  Series of one-two factual sentences related to child labor in Nepal with source of information noted and link provided if derived from an online site. Divided into the following categories: total child labour, child slavery, child trafficking, child prostitution, children in crime, child soldiers, domestic child servants, and, other hazardous child labour.



• Worst forms of child labour data - Pakistan
  http://www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/pakistan.html

  Series of one-two sentences related to child labor in Pakistan with source of information noted and link provided if derived from an online site. Divided into the following categories: total child labour, child slavery, child trafficking, child prostitution, children in crime, child soldiers, domestic child servants, and, other hazardous child labour.



• Worst forms of child labour data - Sri Lanka
  http://www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/srilanka.html

  Series of one-two factual sentences related to child labor in Sri Lanka with source of information noted and link provided if derived from an online site. Divided into the following categories: total child labour, child slavery, child trafficking, child prostitution, children in crime, child soldiers, domestic child servants, and, other hazardous child labour.

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