Mr. Gauri Pradhan's fight against child labour exploitation started from 1987 with the initiation and establishment of Child Workers In Nepal (CWIN) concerned center, which is the pioneer child rights organization in Nepal.

CWIN, with a vision to build up a new society, where the rights of every child is fully guaranteed and every child can live a dignified life without any discrimination, exploitation and injustice and can enjoy a right to participation, has established itself as a synonym to child rights in Nepal due to its continuous hard work and struggle to for child rights.

Since 1987, Mr. Pradhan has been leading CWIN with a mission to work for children with the children themselves as an advocate with special emphasis on community link, networking and support service to promote and protect the rights of children in general and the rights of children at risk in particular.

CWIN, from its years of working experience with the child labour and child rights, have adopted different approaches to work with the children in different situation such as: For Children, With- Children; Advocacy in Action; Rights-based Approach; Gender Equity in Action; Partnership and Networking Strategies. With these approaches and determination to eliminate child labour exploitation, CWIN has been able to win public and government confidence, CWIN's major achievement so far are as below:

• Issues of children are converted into social and political agenda;
• Increasing Political Commitment of HMG/Nepal
• Establishment of the Institutional Infrastructure both in government and NGO Sectors
• Networking building among the NGOs, Trade Unions and professional Organizations for the rights of children
• Partnership with different Agencies of HMG/Nepal and UN and INGOs
• National plans of action on child labour, trafficking in women and children for commercial sexual exploitation, bonded labour formulated
• CWIN established a support system to provide 10,000 plus children in need in the forms of education, health care, emergency help, legal aid, empowerment, and social reintegration every year.
• A First helpline and hotline service established to render sos help to children in need.
• Issues of child participation and rights based approach incorporated in the approach paper of the 10th Five Year Planning.
• Increasing public solidarity on CWIN Movement on the Rights of children.

Mr. Gauri Pradhan is a well-established and renowned name in the field of child rights and human rights in Nepal. Mr. Pradhan alone is leading many organizations and networks besides CWIN. He has been the president of Alliance for Human Right and Social Justice (Alliance-Nepal) and has been the South Asian Coordinator in Global March Movement. Mr. Pradhan is also involved in numbers of network such as Friends For Peace (FFP), NGO Federation of Nepal and Human Rights Alliance. Currently Mr. Pradhan has been nominated as the president of the Central Child Welfare Board (CCWB). The post used to be given previously to Prime ministers or Ministers, and it is the first time in the history that it has been given to a child right activist. Mr Pradhan has been also honoured by many awards of appreciation including International Honour and Recognition by UNICEF as the "Global Leadership for the Best Interest of Children" and CWIN too has been awarded by the HMG, Ministry of Labour as the best organization working towards the elimination of child labour and many more.

Mr. Gauri Pradhan has also written numbers of books on the state of the child rights and on the different aspects of child rights such as Misery Behind the Looms (English); Women's Movement (Nepali); Child Labour In Nepal (English); The Rights of the Child (English/Nepali); Human Rights (Nepali); Cross Border Trafficking In Women ( Nepali); Justice for Children (Nepali); Unfair Labour Practices (Nepali); Living pain: context-Child sex abuse (Nepali); Management of Child Care Homes (Nepali); Girls' Trafficking in Nepal -Realities and Challenges (Nepali); Children in a whirlpool of war (Nepali); Sub-Creation (Nepali); Handbook on Working on Children In conflict; Back Home from Brothels (English) and many more.