Safe home for children (Cwin)

28^th may 2019

                              Visit in Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN)

                              

I visited Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN) today. It was established by a group of students at Tribhuvan University on January 1, 1987 who was investigating the conditions of children living on the streets in Kathmandu, Nepal and recognized the need for advocacy in this area. Child Workers in Nepal is a non government organization (NGO) working for the Children's right.  It helps the street children, children who are sexually exploited and also those victimized by violence. The main objective of organization is to protect the children rights in Nepal. It motivates the children's by giving awareness program, campaigning and pressuring the government to protect and promote children's rights, and to end exploitation, abuse and discrimination against children.

 I met the director of the Child Helpline for the Kaski district, Mr. Shankar Nepali, and Krishna Gurung the psycho-socio counselor. CWIN specifically focuses on children and work with trafficking, child labor exploitation, missing and abandoned children, corporal punishment, online abuse, and violation of child rights. The founder of Child Helpline is Ms. Gauri Pardhan. The helpline protects children from mental and physical abuse, rape, and child trafficking. They provide emergency services such as the toll-free helpline number 1098 which is free of cost, rescue operations, psycho-social counselling, emergency shelters, legal support, family tracing, and social reintegration to respond to children at risk who are in need of care and protection. ‘1098’ is the Child Helpline number in Nepal. CWIN runs six child helplines and a number of support homes and centres based throughout Nepal. The child helplines are located respectively in Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Hetauda, Nepalgunj, Dhangadhi and Pokhara. In the child helpline there are two aspects: "Voice for voiceless" and "For child with child”. CWIN gives child training for students, teachers, civil society, and government and also helps to support the youth. Lastly, they support children for medical emergency situations. They work with the Government of Nepal to develop child-friendly policies, even though the government fails to prevent the violation of children's rights.

It is sad to see many children are abused for different purpose. But child workers help those children who are abuse. The child workers in Nepal are doing great work for victim child.  

#Norec #Insec #Pvchr #Cwin

National human right commission and its provincial work

I visited the National human right commission in kaski, pokhara. The national human right commission is independent and autonomous constitutional body. It was established in the year 2000 as a statutory body under the Human Rights Commission Act 1997 (2053 BS). The Interim Constitution of Nepal 2007 (2063 BS) made the NHRC a constitutional body. It has a separate sphere of responsibilities in the constitutional legal system of the country. These responsibilities complement the responsibilities of the normal machinery of the administration of Justice, the Supreme Court, and the Office of the Attorney General, the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority, and other existing executive, quasi-judicial or judicial bodies of Nepal. 
                                               

I met the member of national human right commission Mr.Tank khanal,   Neetu gartaul, Saru shrestha. We introduce with them and Mrs. Neetu Gartaula shared information about the NHRC. There are nine offices around the country to provide services. The central office is located in Kathmandu. They explained how anyone can file a complaint regarding any issue relating to human rights. They work to verify information, make reports, and urge for government action, for the victim to go to court or receive compensation and protection. They intervene if police aren’t properly investigating and their power is very similar to the courts as they can rescue, search houses, and send victims to prison. According Article 132, to respect, protection, promote, and effective implementation of human right. They do different activities like monitoring, fact finding, verifying, and evaluation, inquiry, taking statement, intervention on any matter.  It works for domestic violence, police torture, rape, child abuse etc. If the law of country is not suitable then NHRC can also change the law of government.  NHRC works on different issues. It also provides public awareness programs and also trained people to empower on different topics. They also do programs collaborating with INSEC as well as other human right organizations, advocate and media.