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Child Rights In India & The world

Stop making children criminals

Submitted on January 29th, 2015 – 12:55 Stop making children criminals ** The “minimum age” debate – separating “responsibility” from “criminalisation” A panel discussion organised by the Child Rights International Network at the World Congress on Juvenile Justice, Geneva Wednesday January 28, 16.45 – 18.00 International Conference Centre of Geneva (CICG) Rue de ..... Read More

Indian Laws & Policies

While all children have equal rights, their situations are not uniform. At the same time, childhood and the range of children’s needs and rights are one whole, and must be addressed holistically. A life-cycle approach must be maintained. Keeping this in mind, there are several national laws ..... Read More

Child Rights In India

"There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children." …..Nelson Mandela How many of us believe that children are individual entities, and not extensions of their parents? How many of us believe that all children ..... Read More

Finally the Nirbhaya Fund gets put to some good use…

The Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India has set up a Central Victim Compensation Fund Scheme (CVCF Scheme) with an initial corpus of Rs. 200 crore from the "Nirbhaya Fund" to support victims of various crimes, especially sexual offences including rape, acid attacks, crime against children, human trafficking, ..... Read More

Children in the Juvenile Justice System will no longer remain deprived of their right to identity, citizenship and protection

An RTI filed by HAQ: Centre for Child Rights with Jail No.7 in Tihar, brought to light the shocking violations of Child Rights and Juvenile Justice in the Tihar Jail. It was found that within a period of 10 months [October 2010 to ..... Read More