Conflict marks efforts to eliminate child labor in Nepal

Efforts against child labor in Nepal have made tangible progress over the past decade but political instability has resulted in displacement of children and forced them to join labor force, The Himalayan Times reported Monday.

The Time-Bound Program (TBP) of the International Labor Organization's International Program on the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO/IPEC), which aims at withdrawing 15,300 children from the worst forms of child labor in the country, has met 95 percent of its target, according to the newspaper.