“We get pushed around and treated like garbage because there is no one to speak for us,” says Chandni, the 18-year-old editor of India’s only tabloid paper produced by street-children journalists, Balaknama (Hindi for “voice of children”). Like all editors, Chandni’s biggest challenge is to decide which stories will make it to the front page,…
There are some 18 million children living on the streets in India, according to data compiled by UNICEF (2000). Fifty four of them, along with a collective of some 14 civil society organisations from India and Nepal, met with officers of the UN Convention on Child Rights (UNCRC) this week in New Delhi to put…
On the question of promoting and protecting the rights of children, Justice Madan B Lokur of the Supreme Court brooks no delay on the part of the authorities. In two cases, heard by Justice Lokur recently, satisfactory outcome led him to dispose of one, and in another, he warned the National Legal Services Authority (NALSA),…
Panaji: After two cases of sexual assault of children by teachers were reported in Goa last week, child rights’ activists said schools must set strict guidelines for staffers to deter them from developing private contact with students. Activists also stated that on installing vigilance systems like CCTVs, schools should not rely too much on them…
The Constitution accords rights to children as citizens of the country. The law which promulgated in 1950, resembles with the United Nations-1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, as it is the first legally binding international instrument to incorporate the full range of human rights: civil, cultural, economic, political and social rights. To create…
Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious ‘Make in India’ campaign will fail if the government does not amend the existing child labour law of the country. Speaking exclusively to The Statesman, Satyarthi said that the government should formulate a new anti-child labour law that is in tandem with the international…