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About Centre for Women and Children Studies

Centre for Women and Children Studies (CWCS) is a women and child rights organization for encouraging, sponsoring and promoting multidisciplinary basic and action research aimed at burgeoning socio-economic development of women, men and children. The Centre was established in April 1994 to primarily act as a pressure group to lobby with the policy planners and decision-makers.

CWCS Mission

Mission is to develop pro-women and child-friendly policy and strategies in Bangladesh and act as an advocacy group to lobby with the policy planners and decision-makers for its implementation in a meaningful way.

CWCS Vision

Vision is inclusion of women and children in policy agenda to ensure equality in socio-economic, legal and political spheres leading to distributive justice.

Our Executive Members

What Have We Achieved

Psychosocial Counselling and Reintegration of Survivors

1,618 survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation were provided psychosocial counselling and they were reintegrated with their families in Satkhira district.

Psychosocial Counselling Support to family members

1,381 family members of 635 families of survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation received psychosocial counselling support in Satkhira district.

Healthcare Support to women headed families

1,200 vulnerable women headed families affected by floods in Satkhira district were provided healthcare support.

Shelter and Healthcare Support to survivors

1,008 women and child survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation were provided shelter and healthcare support.

Psychosocial Counselling Support to survivors

573 returnee women migrant workers received individual psychosocial counselling support in Nawabganj and Keraniganj upazilas of Dhaka district.

Job Placement

468 survivors of trafficking and sexual exploitation were placed in the garment industries at Dhaka.

Healthcare and Psychosocial Counselling

374 Returnee women migrants were provided psycho-social support packages namely healthcare and psycho-social counselling, 53 received family counselling and 28 groups received group counselling.

Income Generating Activities

375 women survivors of trafficking were provided livestock training in goat and duck rearing and were given goats and ducks for their income generating activities.