We know that all the countries except Somalia and USA signed the children agreement. These agreements are not just Slogans but it is a reality. Today we discuss the agreement of children in reality; Egypt is one of the countries, which signed the treaty after a short time of declaring it, but to what extent is this international treaty is applied in Egypt.
Great numbers of children in Egypt are deprived of their human rights. Large numbers of them work in dangerous conditions without protection. There are thousands of children working under the legal age of work.
Consequently, the law does not consider them working. There are also thousands of children working in occasional works especially in the agriculture field and the work laws make them an exception. The laws do not recognise their laws because they do not recognise their existence. The problem is that committees, which work in children field in Egypt, have little experience, thus they do not realise the aspects of the problem completely. For example, there is no statistic can be described as realistic about the number of working children in Egypt.
The international Enterprises said that the number of working children in Egypt does not exceed one million and a half, but other and we discover that the number is more. According to our experience in agriculture sector, we know that working children in cotton farms only is more than 3 million children. This indicates the real problem.
The reasons of children work are due to many different factors. As for us in LCHR, we think that the main issue is the issue of policies not only establishing the policy but also applying them too. If policies aim at prevention of children work, it should, on the other hand, deal with the big issue like poverty, unemployment and other reasons of children work.         
We worked in the issue of children work since 1997; we define three levels of work. For example, in the case of children in jury due to car accidents during their going to work in farms the lawyers of LCHR charge them to pay compensations for the children and their families in case of injury or death. We also publish this in newspapers and issue studies and reports for discussing the problem. We also try to make recommendations and to make the experts and the interested people participate to make a lobby aims at pressure to change the policies, which push children to work. In addition to the reasons, which make them work without protection depending on the recommendations, we deduct of our experiences.
We also exert efforts to develop skills because most of the committees, which work in that field, have no experience of the agreements and international treaties, and sometimes of the local legislations. We try to have a role in developing their awareness of these topics to benefit from them in their daily work with children. The main purpose of this workshop is to develop the skills. In the centre, we reached the end of one phase of the work phases in that topic and we want to view our experience and to hear experiences, then to evaluate these experiences. We also want to make a directory for us and for the committees we work with in the countryside to help these committees which work with children and developing their skills.