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Children with Disabilities in India: From Commitments to Outcomes

Children with Disabilities in India: From Commitment to Outcomes JANUARY 12, 2015 A brief overview of our commitments under the UN convention, and how far our laws fulfil them by Aparna Gupta According to the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN), 150 million children worldwide have a disability. Shockingly, 90 per cent of them ..... Read More

PROPOSED JUVENILE JUSTICE BILL – A MISGUIDED MISSILE

Bharti Ali, Co-Director, HAQ: Centre for Child Rights, has written an article on why the new Juvenile Justice bill needs a through relook. To read her full article please click here ..... Read More

Some justice at last for Baby N-Finally!

Written by – Enakshi Ganguly Thukral Today the man who raped baby N was convicted. He was sentenced to life imprisonment based on the nature of the crime he committed and the gravity of the injuries that baby N had sustained. On the 29th of October, baby N will be admitted ..... Read More

The Juvenile Justice Act can heal broken spirits

Minister of women and child development Maneka Gandhi recently said that juveniles who commit rape should be tried as adults as the police told her that “50% of the crimes are committed by 16-year-olds who know the Juvenile Justice Act”. As per the National Crime Records Bureau’s ‘Crime in ..... Read More

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (Amendment) Rules, 2014

By way of a Gazette Notification dated 24.03.2014, Ministry of Women & Child Development of Union of India has carried out certain amendments in The Commission for Protection of Child Rights Rules 2006. These amendments appear to have been carried out to give effect ..... Read More