Wellwishers

Shanta Sinha
Child Rights Advocate and Chairperson of NCPCR

I see HAQ's greatest contribution to be its single minded-focus on setting a national context and framework for child rights, particularly within the confines of law, policy and programme. The organisation has brought to the fore the challenges that need to be addressed with regard to child rights and protection by highlighting it repeatedly in various fora.

Shabana Azmi
Actor and Activist

Children are invisible citizens of this country. As someone deeply affected by social causes, I recognize the consistent and path-breaking work done by HAQ to ensure that children’s issues do not remain invisible and unrecognized. Their work reiterates how unprotected children are in this country and how imminent the danger is if we do not act concertedly and fast.

Assefa Bequele
Distinguished Fellow, The African Child Policy Forum (Adis Ababa, Ethiopia)

As HAQ: Centre for Child Rights enters its second decade I would like to take the liberty of congratulating it for their superb work over the last ten years. HAQ has contributed to the advancement of child rights in so many ways – at the policy level certainly but in no small measure at the individual and human level also.

Swami Agnivesh
Chairperson Bandhua Mukti Morcha, Child Rights Activist

Today, HAQ has come to be synonymous with child rights. In fact we can say HAQ means child rights! I have known HAQ's work closely since I was part of the release function of their first status report at the Asian Social Forum in Hyderabad in 2004, and I have known Enakshi much longer.

Since then I have been part of the Advisory panel of the Campaign Against Child Trafficking and have had the opportunity to work with Bharti and Enakshi, sharing a platform with them on many issues of common concern.

Dr Syeda Hameed
Member, Planning Commission

Struggle for inclusion of children and their rights is a consistent thing at every level of planning. There are many closed doors but we cannot stop moving.

Dr. Bishnu Mohapatra
Former Programme Officer, South East Asia, Ford Foundation, New Delhi

We rightly assume that democracy helps people articulate their interest. But this does not happen automatically. Take of instance the case of children. It is legitimate to ask, who speaks for children? How are their interest articulated? Rights,including the Children's, are not mere endowments. Rights make sense only when they are exercised and as a result impact on human lives. For the realization of rights enabling conditions are necessary. This brings the connection between child right and governance to the fore.