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Kathmandu Saturday May 05, 2001 Baishakh 22, 2058.
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Wrong
data
First of all, we would like to thank you for
giving priority to the issues of child labour in Nepal in your esteemed national daily. We
appreciate the role played by your popular daily to uplift the issue of child labour and
other child-related issues which have made immense contributions to the movement of child
rights in Nepal.
But we would like to correct the data on child
labour in Nepal, published in the news report and the editorial (May 2 and 3, 2001). The
data of 77,000 child domestic workers in Nepal have been misinterpreted as the total
number of child labour in Nepal. Other data information only refer to the domestic child
labour, and not the total number of child in Nepal. Domestic child labourers are the
children employed as helpers in household chores such as washing dishes/clothes, cooking
and cleaning and so on.
We would like to inform that the total no of
child labour is 2. 6 million, according to the ILO-LIPEC, Nepal.
Tarak Dhital
Spokesperson, CWIN
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