Way forward in the regional response for the elimination of worst forms of child labour

The session will spotlight key findings from the regional analysis with the focus on India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. During this session, ECPAT will discuss specific recommendations for governments and business on how to harmonise and improve legal and policy frameworks to address the worst forms of child labour more effectively. They will present a regional snapshot that reflects good practices as well as legal and policy gaps that need to be addressed by governments and business, and discuss the way forward on how to harmonise and enforce legal and policy frameworks, and what actions to take to better protect children in South Asia.

Speakers include:

• Dr. Rinchen Chopel, Director General of South Asia Initiative to End Violence against Children (SAIEVAC)
• SAARC Apex Body and member of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)
• Sumnima Tuladhar, Executive Director, CWIN, Nepal
• Shrinkhala Thapa, regional representative of ECPAT International
• Insaf Nizam, from the International Labour Organisation (ILO)

This session is part of the 2nd UN South Asia Forum on Business and Human Rights on 17-19 March 2021, which is being hosted by the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights (UNWG) in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Labour Organization (ILO).