• CWA co-organised the Children's Forum for the Children's Forum & Bangkok Regional Consultation Against the Most Intolerable Forms of Child Labour with Save the Children Alliance, Child Rights Asianet, ILO-IPEC, Redd Barna and UNICEF.
• Seminar on Thailand's Position Regarding the Most Intolerable Forms of Child Labour in June 1997 was co-organised by CWA in collaboration with Foundation for Children Development, Foundation Center for the Protection of Children's Rights, Child Rights Asianet and the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare.
• CWA was a member of the organising Committee for the Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation in preparation for the First World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.

• CWA is now an associate member of the Defense for Children International (DCI). and is also a member of a sub-organising committee for the next DCI assembly to be held in Asia in 1999.
• CWA was the contact point for Southeast Asia and Mekong Basin sub-region for the NGO Forum for Working Children in Oslo, Norway.
• CWA facilitated the participation of a child worker and also attended the Amsterdam Child Labor Conference.
• CWA representative attended the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm.

• One day seminar organised by Shoishab Bangladesh in Dhaka to campaign against child domestic workers and to share the outcomes of the exchange program, March 1997.
• Baseline Survey with child domestic workers conducted by Sri Lanka Interactive Group in Colombo and in Yogyakarta, Indonesia May-July 1997 by Secretariat Bersama Perpuan Yogyakarta (SBPY).
• Non Formal Education for child domestic workers started by Child Workers in Nepal (CWIN), June 1997.
• National Seminar on child domestic workers in Islamabad, Pakistan organised by SACH, September 1997.

• The Invisible Children was published by CWA in collaboration with the International Save the Children Alliance member organisations in South and East Asia and the Pacific Region. The publication seeks to highlight the diverse contexts and conditions in which children work in selected countries in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as to analyse some of the key factors contributing to child labour and the main challenges to be addressed at the local and national levels in tackling the most intolerable forms of work that children do. Special attention is paid to the plight of the "invisible Children" in the case studies included from various countries.

• Proceedings of the Fourth Regional Consultation
• Commercial Sexual exploitation of children
• Trade intervention as a strategy in relation to child labour
• Child Labour and International Trade
• Child Domestic Workers

CWA profile, articles, information concerning child labour is now accessible on CWA's homepage: http://www.loxinfo.co.th/~cwanet.

Email has been established and CWA can be contacted at cwanet@loxinfo. co.th

• A Field Workers' Exchange Programme was organised by the Task Force on Domestic Child Workers in March 1997 and hosted by Shoishab, Bangladesh. The exchange program was organised with the support of the Overseas Development Administration (ODA), South East Asia Development Division, Bangkok. The regional exchange programme was the first of its kind in South Asia. CWA also facilitated the participation of Visayan Forum, Philippines at the Exchange Programme.
• CWA coordinated and funded an exposure trip to Peace Trust, Tamil Nadu and Arunodhaya in Madras, India for three staff members of Concern for Working Children and Environment Nepal in July 1997. The program aimed at strengthening NGO coordination and partnerships between the participating countries; to share and document child labour situations at the state and national levels; to draw lessons and methodologies on how to contact and assist child workers.
• The Study Tour of Cambodia by Vietnamese NGO Delegation in March 1997 was coordinated by Child Workers in Asia (CWA) and Terre des Hommes Germany in Vietnam. It was hosted by the Cambodian Center for the Protection of Children's Rights (CCPCR) in collaboration with Krousar Thmey, Redd Barna-Cambodia and the Cambodia Women's Crisis Center (CWCC). The study tour was organised to facilitiate a working relationship between Vietnamese and Cambodian welfare agencies which provide concrete services to those girls.

• THAI Coordinating Committee on Migrant Children

• Research on Khmer Migrant Children

• Networking with Cross Border Organisations

Working with Working Children: A Thai video documentary which profiles the key activities of a model organisations in Thailand has been completed with the support of ILO-IPEC.