FROM BONDAGE TO FREEDOM 49 practices. UNESCO has official relations with about 600 NGOs worldwide, and about 1,200 NGOs cooperate with UNESCO on projects on an occasional basis. iii) UNICEF The United Nations Development Fund for Children99 (UNICEF) looks at child labour and sexual exploitation of children as a gross violation of children’s rights. It has regional and country-level projects on trafficking. UNICEF works closely with other UN agencies such as the OHCHR, the Committee on the Rights of the Child, ILO and the UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Pornography in its projects on trafficking. In the areas of child labour and child sexual exploitation, UNICEF holds regular consultations with NGOs to discuss research findings, programme implementation findings and to develop complementary policies and programmes. For example, in West Africa, UNICEF has been networking regularly with NGOs on child trafficking. iv) UNDP The United Nations Development Programme 100 (UNDP) has projects on trafficking under its focus areas of gender and HIV/AIDS in some regions. For example, in South East Asia, UNDP has initiated a project between six countries “UN Inter-Agency Project on Trafficking in Women and Children in the Mekong Sub-Region”101 under its Gender Division. Under a UNDP HIV and Development project in South Asia, trafficking and related issues are key areas of focus. In Europe, a regional Programme to support Gender and Development also focuses on trafficking in women. In each of these programmes there is partnership with relevant NGOs in the region. v) Commission on Human Rights. The Commission on Human Rights falls under the OHCHR (Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights) alongside the Sub-committee on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. Under the 99 see http://www.unicef.org. 100 see http://www.undp.org. 101 Participating countries are Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and China (Yunnan Province).