Participants in a campaign to ensure a child’s safe migration from rural to urban areas and prevent trafficking and abuse of children have stressed opening registration centers at the grassroots for preserving information about migrated children.
This awareness building campaign was held at Kasura under Charbaria and at Tumchar under Chandramohon on the Barisal city outskirts on Friday and Rasulpur under ward 9 of Barisal City Corporation on Thursday.
Bangladesh National Women Lawyers Association organised the programme with financial assistance of European Union and Save the Children International under the Rural Urban Child Migration Project.
It included discussion, prize giving of painting and essay writing competition on elimination of child-labour and cultural programmes on the issue.
Advocate Manjuara Begum, divisional coordinator of BNWLA, presided over the programme and Masuk Kamal, RUCMP area coordinator of the project, conducted it addressed by local government representatives, guardians.
The discussants said local government organisations have standing committees on women and children welfare to properly address child rights violations but they are not working now.
So they suggested introducing an effective registration system for migrant children and activation and monitoring of the steering and standing committees at union, ward and upazila levels.
Participants at the programme urged for raising awareness and capacities among caregivers, media, law enforcement agencies, civil society, local and central government organisations to address forced labour, sexual abuse, trafficking and exploitation of children.
-With New Age input
