An appeal has gone out for information on company initiatives in Asia-Pacific that have tried to address the rights of children.
Save the Children Sweden, which is working on the issue in the region,
wants companies to send it details of programmes – preferably those
that have been going for at least two years – that have tried to combat
discrimination against children up to the age of 18 on issues such as
caste, disability, gender or HIV/Aids.
The work has arisen out of a regional workshop on child rights in South
and Central Asia held in Nepal in the autumn of 2005. At the event,
participants agreed that there was a need to look at good practices and
programmes on the rights of children around the Asia region.
Bandana Shrestha, Save the Children Sweden’s principal researcher on
non-discrimination, said the aim of the research would be ‘to
concentrate on garnering and documenting information on good practices
and lessons learnt on non-discrimination throughout South and Central
Asia’.
She added that the hope was that findings would lead to more
partnership programmes between companies and civil society groups.
‘We’re looking for short write-ups of the good practices and lessons
learnt in such programmes,’ she said.
