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Child Rights In India 'Foot soldiers for our mothersChildren in Kolkata's Sonagachi red-light district have formed Amra Padatik, a collective to work for the dignity of their mothers and to claim their rights as children. In this interview, AP's President Gobinda Saha and Secretary Chaitali Pal talk about the discrimination that dogs their lives and their work as young activists More... Protection without rights?Child sexual abuse cuts across class, caste, cultural and economic backgrounds. But there is no specific law to make it an offence. The recent disclosure of the Nithari killings may prompt the government to pass the much-awaited and long-needed Offences against Children Bill, 2005. But more laws may not ensure more rights for children More... MissingAccording to statistics compiled by the Institute of Social Sciences, a staggering 45,000 children go missing in India every year. Of these, 11,000 are never found More... TraffickedA recent study of 412 brothel owners from 12 states revealed that there were six girl-children on average per brothel. One-hundred-and-sixty traffickers interviewed admitted that young girls were their main target. In 35% of cases, it is families that sell their women into the flesh trade for as little as Rs 1,000-Rs 5,000 More... 'Enrolment is cause for celebration, quality is cause for concern'According to the 2006 ASER survey, 93.2% of India's children in the 6-14 age-group are now in school. Farida Lambay of Pratham believes that the challenge is now keeping children in school and finding out why even after four years of schooling children cannot read More... The aspiration for educationThere is unimaginable poverty and hunger in the picturesque Doars region of West Bengal. Still, the people here feel that education is more important for their children than nutrition. How is this aspiration for education being met in these remote villages? More... Getting children into school: Flexibility is the keyAll government interventions in education are based on the assumption that child labour cannot be abolished and that the poor do not wish to send their children to school. In fact, the poor make enormous sacrifices to do just that. It is time the administration responded with strategies that help children enrol and stay in school More... Mainstreaming disability into the child rights agendaOne in every 10 children is born with or acquires a disability. While the pulse polio drive and immunisation against diphtheria, pertusis and tetanus have been quite successful, the State's efforts to prevent conditions such as blindness, deafness and neurological disabilities have been dismal More... Children and the criminal justice systemThe Juvenile Justice Act 2000 lays down a non-penal protective juvenile justice system for children alleged to have committed an offence. While the legislation itself is well-intentioned, there are many stumbling blocks in its implementation, chief among them the difficulty of establishing whether an offender is a child or not, in a country where millions do not have birth certificates or other records More... |
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