UCEP Approach

Child Labour in recent years specially after the CRC of 1990 has become a sensitive issue both in the developed countries where it is nearly non- existent and the least developed countries where it is abundant. The former equipped with CRC is exerting immense pressure on the later to eliminate child labour in their midst. The fact, however, remains the least developed countries are not in a position to eliminate child labour overnight as it is an instrument of survival for the people who provide them.

It is not to say that child labour is inevitable and has to be tolerated. On the contrary, it can be eliminated only when the factors causing child labour are identified and removed.

Two important factors known to be the cause of child labour are: poverty and illiteracy, not necessarily in that order. UCEP believes and has demonstrated with documented case histories that by providing education, skill training and employment support child labour can be eliminated in future generations. This is the philosophy that drives UCEP forward.

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Introduction

• Evolution of UCEP
• UCEP Approach