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Summary: Partners included: The Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada; Child Workers in Asia, Thailand; Asian Research Centre for Migration, Thailand; Psycho-social Trauma and Human Rights Programme, Philippines.
Since the end of the conflict in Indochina, Southeast Asia has not been known internationally as a region of conflict and instability. Localized low intensity conflicts have nevertheless been running for decades, in some cases for over a half-century. In other places, conflict has erupted in the context of political transition. Even though these conflicts affect the lives of children in numerous ways, little has been done to document the impact. In mid-2002, UNICEF’s East Asia and the Pacific Regional Office (UNICEF-EAPRO) and partners from the region sought to address this information gap by initiating a research project in three conflict-affected areas – Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Thai-Myanmar border. Further information: This report was part of the Canadian International Development Agency's (CIDA) child protection research fund.