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Cambodia<br />
LICADHO uses a variety of visual formats to communicate simple messages to communities, including (clockwise<br />
from top): Symbols illustrating forms <strong>and</strong> impacts of child work vs. labour; photos of dramatised situations; case<br />
studies of worst forms; portraits of real-life working children; VCD video clips, <strong>and</strong> illustrated leaflets.<br />
families <strong>and</strong> build community. Two<br />
approaches in Cambodia that deserve a<br />
mention here are from UNICEF’s<br />
Community-based Social Protection Initiative<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Cambodian League for <strong>the</strong><br />
Promotion <strong>and</strong> Defence of Human Rights<br />
(LICADHO)’s approach to protecting<br />
children from exploitative labour.<br />
UNICEF’s approach starts from <strong>the</strong><br />
position that <strong>the</strong> family is <strong>the</strong> first line of<br />
defence for children. Volunteers from<br />
communities are trained as “social helpers”<br />
to monitor any incident of child trafficking or<br />
sexual exploitation. Social helper network<br />
meetings are regularly held with authorities<br />
to pass on information. Action is <strong>the</strong>n taken<br />
against offenders. Attention to this issue gives<br />
a strong child protection message in villages<br />
targeted. 22<br />
LICADHO, with support from <strong>the</strong> ILO, has<br />
worked with children’s associations <strong>and</strong><br />
community groups to inform <strong>and</strong> mobilise<br />
action on exploitative forms of labour. An<br />
information kit 23 has been used by groups of<br />
trained volunteers supported by LICADHO<br />
to assist in <strong>the</strong> identification of exploitative or<br />
hazardous labour. It depicts a range of<br />
common childhood activities mixed in with<br />
four of <strong>the</strong> worst forms of child labour<br />
(sexual, hazardous, illegal <strong>and</strong> forced).<br />
22 Fallon & Tzannotos, 1998<br />
23 The LICADHO kit is reproduced in an online “Toolkit” appendix to <strong>Children</strong> at Risk, at http://www.children.campaign.org.<br />
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