Papers

Child Labour & Child Participation

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Children’s Reading

Video Cassettes / VCDs /Catalogue

Audio Cassettes

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Enabling Children’s Participation in a Democracy. Children are Citizens Today

 

 

  LIST OF CWC PUBLICATIONS AND FILMS

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  • Education for Empowerment and Children’s Citizenship, 2001                      Rs.25 / US $2
  • Children as Partners in Change, 2000                                                                 Rs.30 / US $2     
  • Children and Democracy, 2000                                                                              Rs.25 / US $2
  • The Meaningful Participation of Children or Children’s Protagonism,2000  Rs.20 / US $2
  • Strategies to address Children with in the Context of Globalisation, 1999    Rs.25 / US $2
  • Children and their Rights Convention, 1999                                                        Rs.20 / US $2
  • Have We Asked the Children? 1997                                                                      Rs.25 / US $2
  • Practicing What You Preach, 1993                                                                         Rs.40 / US $3
  • Child Protection in Asia – Empowerment, 1990                                                  Rs.25 / US $2
  • Partners in Development, 1989                                                                              Rs.25 / US $2
  • The Children of Varahi, 1993                                                                                  Rs.40 / US $3
  • Education and Child Labour in the Indian Context                                             Rs.75 / US $5

The above papers have been authored by Ms. Nandana Reddy, the founder Executive Director of the Concerned for  Working Children (CWC). She is now the Director Development. She has inputted extensively into international and national policies, drafted child related legislation and has set up structures and mechanisms in the field for making children’s rights a reality. She has many years of training experience and has designed and conducted training programmes on child labour, children’s participation, protagonism and governance in several countries.

 

  • Too Many Laws – Too Little Justice, 2001                                                           Rs.20 / US $2

  • Oxford Notes: Documenting Bhima Sangha’s Process, 2000                        Rs.40 / US $3

  • Child Labour – A Gender Perspective, 1995                                                       Rs.20 / US $2

  • Situation of Children in India: Shaping the Tomorrows, 1993                         Rs.40 / US $3

  •  Alternative Media – A necessity, 1993                                                                  Rs.20 / US $2

The above papers have been authored by Ms. Kavita Ratna, Director Communications of CWC. She works closely  with Bhima Sangha, a union of, by and for working children and with the National Movement of Working Children on issues of communication and assists them to bring out several publications. She has been intimately involved in developing training modules, conducting workshops and designing strategies that enable children’s participation, protagonism and governance.

 

  • The Appropriate Education Programme, 1999                                                   Rs.25 / US $2

  • Applying Montessori Education in                                                                         Rs.20 / US $2

  • Rural Government Schools, 1999

  • Institutions Promoting Independence, 1999                                                       Rs.15 / US $2

  • Developmental Milestones of the School Age Child, 1992                              Rs.25 / US $2

The above papers have been authored by Ms. Amukta Mahapatra. Amukta is an educationalist who has studied several systems of education including the Montessori method. She has experience in developing learning material, training teachers and designing curriculum for disadvantaged children. She set up and was the principal of ABACUS, a Montessori school in Chennai, India. She is currently an education consultant  to UNICEF.

 

  • Our Story Our Dreams, 1997                                                                                  Rs.25 / US $2

The above paper has been authored by Nagaraj Kolkeri. Nagaraj is an ex Bhima Sangha member, currently  member of Namma Sabha and a member of the Executive board of CWC.

 

  • From the Frying Pan to the Fire, 1993                                                                  Rs.30 / US $2

  • A Report on the Third South ASIA/SAARC Countries                                                         
  • Conference on the Rights of the child, 1991                                                      Rs.15 / US $2

The above papers have been authored by Mr. Lakshapathy. He is the Executive Director of the Association for the Promotion of Social Action (APSA), a community based organisation working for civil society participation. He is a founder member and a Director of the Concerned for Working Children. He has extensive experience in designing and conducting training programmes for children and adults in child participation and protagonism.

 

Child Labour and Child Participation

  • Work We Can and Cannot Do, 1999                                                                    Rs.40 / US $3
  • The Status of Child Labour in India, 1991                                                           Rs.100 / US $6
  • What You Can Do for the Citizens of Tomorrow, 1991                                      Rs.25 / US $2
  • Child Labour in India- An overview, 1990                                                            Rs.15 / US $2
  • Our Survey Story (Kannada/English)                                                                    Rs.40 / US $3
  • Children and Their Research – A Process Document,                                  Rs.200 / US $5
  • Lolichen PJ, 2003  
  • Journey in Children’s Participation – Revised in 2002                                  Rs.40 / US $3 (Nandana Reddy & Kavita Ratna)                                                                        
  • Work We Can and Cannot Do ( Seven Panchayats in Kannada), 2003        Rs.30 / US $2 (Rs.200/ US $5 for full set)
  • Media Code     By Kavita Ratna                                                                           Rs.60 / US $5
  • Protocol of the Makkala Panchayats in Karnataka                                        Rs.100 / US $6
  • Taking a Right Turn: Children Lead the Way in Research                             Rs.250 / US10

 

Reports

  • Living on the Edge, 1998                                                                                        Rs.40 / US $3
  • Education - Views of Working children, 1995                                                     Rs.80 / US $5
  • Report of the Appropriate education, 1995                                                         Rs.125 / US $7
  • Police Report, 1995 (Kan)                                                                                      Rs.30 / US $3
  • Conversation with Varahi, 1993                                                                            Rs.100 / US $6
  • Meenampatti Report, 1991                                                                                    Rs.20 / US $2
  • Report - Hotel Suruchi, 1991                                                                                 Rs.15 / US $2
  • Report of the Task Force, 1989                                                                             Rs.80 / US $5
  • Report of the Seminar on the Rights of the Child, 1988                                  Rs.110 / US $7
  • Education for Working Children, 1985                                                                Rs.80 / US $5
  • Children whom the World Tries to Forget, 1983                                               Rs.150 / US $8
  • Working Children’s Report, 1998                                                                         Rs.100 / US $6
  • Alternate report of National Movement of Working Children, 2003                Rs.40 / US $3

 

Other Publications

  • Struggle Against Child Marriage                                                                                                     (Kannada & English) Joseph D’Souza, 2003                                                       Rs.10 / US $2

  • Cherkadi Baduku mathu Vicharar (Kannada) Himakar, 2002                           Rs.30 / US $3

 

Posters

  • Rights of the Child (set of 5 posters)                                                                     Rs.25 / US $4

  • Children's Rights Placards                                                                                      Rs.250 /US $10   

  •  (set (of 10 colourful, child-friendly placards)  

  • Democracy and people Participation                                                                      Rs.150 /US $7  

      

Children’s Reading

  • Cartoon Time 1993, (Kannada/English)                                                                     Rs.20 / US $2

  • Namma Holeyamma, 1992,(Kannada/English)                                                        Rs.40 / US $3

  • Bhima Patrike – wall magazine for working children (Kannada)                            Rs.10 / US $2

 

Video Cassettes/VCDs

  • We Speak (A film about a day in the life of a rag picker)
  •  Duration 28 minutes                                                                                                    Rs.750 / US $17
  • Combating Child labour (Strategies to address child labour)                                               
  •  Duration 24 minutes                                                                                                   Rs.750 / US $17
  • Time to Listen (International Meeting of Working Children)                                                                                                                                        
  • Duration 50 minutes                                                                                                   Rs.750 / US$17  Duration 15 minutes                                                                                                   Rs.500 / US $11
  • Julu Julu Andhalo (A Girls conversation with a river in relation to  environmental  degradation)                                                                                                        
  • Duration 30 minutes                                                                                                   Rs.750 / US$17
  • Samskara (Funeral Rites - An International award winning Indian film by                         T.Pattabhi Rama Reddy)                                                                                                                Pattabhi Rama Reddy has produced and directed the groundbreaking                       ‘Samskara’ in Kannada which won the President’s Gold Medal in 1971                                   and the Bronze Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.                                                                                                                                          
  • Duration 3 hours                                                                                                        Rs.1500 / US $35

  • Devera Kadu (The travails of tribal boy who is forced to migrate to the city)                              Devarakadu, a film by Pattabhi Rama Reddy, is the winner of                                                 India’s National Award for Best Environmental Feature Film 1994.                                             This is a story of the forest, of the tribe's (indigenous people)                                             symbiotic relationship with the forest.                                                                                               

               Duration 2 hours                                                                                                      Rs.1000 / US $2

  • Making a Path (A film on Vanaja who was subjected to gender                                  discrimination and later how Bhima Sangha enabled her to                                                   change her life perspective with civil construction training)                              Rs.750 /US$17       
  • Give us a Chance (A documentation of five days Regional                                            
  • Convention of Working Children)                                                                                             
  • Duration 28 minutes                                                                                                 Rs.750 / US $17
  • Citizens Today ( A film on Children’s Participation)                                                                 Duration 30 minutes                                                                                                 Rs.750 /US $11

  • Taking Destiny in their hands

        ( A film on international movement of working children

            Duration 45minutes)                                                                                                Rs.1500 /US35

           Film Catalogue

                                                                                                                                      

Audio Cassettes

  • Hariyuta Bandalo Varahi (Kannada)                                                                                                       (A collection of songs on the river Varahi)                                                            Rs.30 / US $3

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