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Item Anti-trafficking bill(CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018-08-09) Mahara, PritiIt is imperative to avoid the institutionalisation of children and instead, strive to restore them to a family. Children accounted for 59% of all trafficking cases registered in 2016, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. The Trafficking of Persons (Prevention, Protection and Rehabilitation) Bill, 2018–passed by the Lok Sabha on Thursday – hence addresses, by the government’s definition, “one of the most pervasive yet invisible crimes” affecting the country’s “most vulnerable persons, especially children and women”.Item Are School Spaces Really Safe for Our Children(CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018-10-07) Mahara, PritiChild safety lies at the very bottom of our social agenda. We need to prioritise it urgently. The safety of children has often been found to be the most compromised in schoolsItem Children are not safe in school: Here’s what we need to do(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2018-10-07) Mahara, PritiTwo recent incidents of child rape within school premises — one in Phulwari Sharif in Patna last week and the other in Chhapra district in Bihar just two months ago — bring back exactly the same sinking feeling we had experienced a few months ago, when the gangrape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in Kathua shook the very core of the Indian psyche.Item In Shattered Post-Lockdown Economy, Govt Must Keep a Strict Eye on Child Labour(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-06-16) Mahara, Priti; Sapkal, RahulAccording to estimates by the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA), the world economy is projected to shrink by 3.2% this year. The estimates also state that GDP in developed countries is likely to shrink by five percent, while that of developing countries will contract by around 0.7% in 2020. Massive job losses will push an additional 34.3 million people into extreme poverty by the end of this year. Compared to developed countries, poverty, lack of access to employment opportunities and weak social security systems have induced large-scale distress in developing countries like India.Item Is child protection a priority in the public budget?(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2019-07-22) Mahara, PritiWell-designed interventions for prevention, protection, response & rehabilitation can help India reach the ideal of a comprehensive protective environment for children. India’s ability to realise and help children reach their full potential is dependent on the nation’s ability to fulfil its commitments to children. The Constitution of India recognises the inherent vulnerabilities in children through Article 39-F. The Article mandates the state to ensure that “children are given opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity and that childhood and youth are protected against exploitation and against moral and material abandonment.”Item Safe Spaces For India’s Youth(CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018-08-13) Mahara, PritiEnthusiasm, energy, vibrancy, impulse, innovation and dynamism are nature of Youth. August 12 was first designated as the International Youth Day by the UN General Assembly in 1999, and serves as an annual celebration of the role of young women and men as essential partners in change, and as an opportunity to raise awareness of challenges and problems facing the world’s youth.