The work undertaken by ICCLE as of now broadly falls within the five areas as below:

• ICCLE engages in education, awareness of the immigrant communities from Southern world in the US and raises consciousness on child slavery to leverage from their positioning in the policy arena. This is especially important to build political support for the legislation concerning poor countries in the south.
  
  
• It connects and builds relationships for our partners in southern poor countries to the resources of the north by mobilizing support for undertaking innovative rehabilitation of the child laborers in the southern countries.
  
  
• Brings authentic southern perspective in the US Policy domain of the Federal Government and of multilateral institutions on child labor and need for comprehensive education for children. This is to build political support for the poor both from the World Bank/IMF, the G-8 leadership represented in the Development Committee Meetings and seek commitments for poor countries particularly on education and implementation support to ILO Convention 182.
  
  
• ICCLE works with the industry and other stakeholders in developing collaborative programs on monitoring of child labor within the overall framework of corporate social responsibility. This is particularly for garment industry in Bangladesh, Silk in India, Cocoa in West Africa and sporting goods industry in most of the poor southern world. ICCLE brings complementing interventions in the European Parliament to fortify the interests of the poor in EU-US legislative processes and markets.
  
  
• ICCLE facilitates southern capacity building on innovations in education, rehabilitation of child laborers across government, political leadership, trade unions and the civil society institutions. ICCLE thereby markets the effectiveness of development financing to the US and to the G-8 and governments in the southern world.

Besides, ICCLE is working on two key issues as the North American Secretariat of Global March Against Child Labor. The first is to achieve the implementation of the ILO Convention 182. It also works for the realization of the Dakar declaration on Education for All and is engaged at various levels for the mobilization of the additional resources for achieving this. ICCLE/GM considers that child slavery issue is best addressed when children have the ability to attend schools and it is the best rehabilitation that can be offered to the children to end suffering and misery.

The broad contours of ICCLE work, essentially concerns to bring authentic, and abiding southern perspective to the policy domain of Washington, D.C. It also aims to provide and facilitate the interface of the southern leadership from the social action world with the institutional infrastructure of Washington, D.C.

The other important work areas aim to:

• Bring the issues of child labor and slavery to the center stage of the national governments, financial institutions and multi-lateral agencies. It tries to bring the issues before the federal government particularly in relation to the import of goods, commodities and products made by the children that are being brought into the US market.
  
• Strengthen world wide movement, to oversee the implementation of the ILO Convention 182, relating with the partner organizations and ensuring that the national governments prepare time bound action plans and strategies that are effective, credible, feasible and transparent.
  
• Ensure that the process is undertaken by essentially involving the civil society organizations and the trade unions.
  
• Ensure that there are resources available for the national governments for the implementation of action plans and strategies.
  
• Identify financing gaps for the poor countries and mobilize resources from the international community for providing them support.
  
• Ensure that the good practices of the national governments and the civil society on the release and rehabilitation of child labor, and provision of education are captured and further disseminated to generate cross learning.
  
• Mobilize global resources towards global initiative on education for all and to ensure that the national governments in countries where the problem of child slavery is endemic are first amongst the education fast track initiative for provisioning compulsory, free quality primary education for the children.
  
• Ensure that there is gender parity in primary school attendance by 2005.
  
• Work closely with the consumer organizations, trade unions and individual consumers to build worldwide awareness in establishing independent, credible and transparent mechanisms for certification of goods, products and commodities produced without engaging child labor in some of the most notorious and endemic areas where child slavery is rampant.