Browsing by Author "Marwaha, Puja"

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    15 to 18 year-olds working
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018-06-13) Marwaha, Puja
    Our society often confuses adolescents as 'adults' and unfortunately pushes them into a world of work which they are not prepared for.
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    “Adults Don’t Seem To Understand How Deadly The Virus Is, So We Decided To Make Them See”
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-05-05) Marwaha, Puja
    Perturbed at how irresponsibly some adults are behaving by not taking this COVID-19 outbreak seriously, children at a Kolkata slum have come up with a series of posters with powerful messages, with a hope to make it a safer and healthier society.
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    Back to school: An encouraging move, but need to tread with caution
    (Down To Earth, 2021-08-26) Marwaha, Puja
    Children became vulnerable to child marriage, trafficking and labour during the COVID-19 pandemic. The only focus right now should be to open schools in the safest possible way
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    Battling periods and access to menstrual hygiene in times of COVID-19
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-07-14) Marwaha, Puja
    With more than 40 percent of Indian women & adolescent girls in the age group of 15-24 years not familiar with safe and hygienic methods of menstrual practices, there should be more focussed dialogue on the subject, especially on the lack of access to menstrual hygiene products during the lockdown.
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    Breastfeeding in times of COVID-19: Will new-born’s miss out on vital nutrition
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-08-05) Marwaha, Puja
    The road to motherhood amid the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic was arduous for Soni Devi, 22, a resident of Uttar Pradesh’s Sonbhadra. She became a mother for the first time on April 30, 2020. There was no ambulance service to take Soni to the healthcare centre when she went into labour amid the countrywide lockdown. After a couple of hours, as her family was preparing for the possibility of a home delivery, a grass roots level local non-profit partner of Child Rights and You (CRY) — Sonbhadra Vikas Samiti (SVS) — intervened. A few frantic phone calls later, a transport arrived.
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    Budget 2015
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2015-06-28) Marwaha, Puja
    At least 10 per cent of Union budget for children if they are to get proper education, nutrition and protection
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    Budget 2020-21: Why it’s high time for a thorough revamp of our child budget
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-01-31) Marwaha, Puja
    The annual Union budget piques our attention not just because it’s the biggest financial event of the year, making front page headlines all over. It means much more than a bunch of numbers in thousands and crores of rupees, being the blueprint of the nation’s planning and preparedness for the future.
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    Building a ‘Chakravyuha’ – cracking the complexities of modern slavery, including trafficking
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2018-09-07) Marwaha, Puja
    The true extent of trafficking continues to remain unknown because of the ‘latent’ way in which this complex criminal activity operates. Recently the discourse is around the usage of an umbrella term, ‘modern slavery’, which comprises of multiple concepts such as forced labour, debt bondage, forced marriage, slavery and similar practices, and human trafficking. Recent ILO global estimates of modern slavery state that 40.3 million human beings are victims of modern slavery, where 25 percent of modern slavery victims are children. The diagram below represents the percentage of children involved in different forms of modern slavery.
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    Call it a memorable year for children? No, not quite
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2017-12-30) Marwaha, Puja
    In 2017, we saw some positive changes, but at the same time witnessed loss of life, morbidity and vulnerability which children face in our country
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    Changing face of CSR in India
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2012-03-06) Marwaha, Puja
    Corporates in India need to safeguard the future of the country & their businesses through environmental & social investment India has traditionally had a long-standing heritage of ‘giving back’ to society. Through our cultural traditions, social interactions and economic transactions, we as a nation have always acknowledged the importance of investing in the future.
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    Child labour: When do we start to rewrite their story
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-06-12) Marwaha, Puja
    The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has declared the theme for the World Day Against Child Labour 2020, as ‘Protect Children from Child Labour, now more than ever!’ Nothing could have been more apt, as the COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a humanitarian crisis of an unprecedented proportion which the world has never seen before.
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    Children Caught in a Pandemic: COVID-19 Can’t Justify Child Labour
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-09-01) Marwaha, Puja
    For the past five months, our screens have been flooded with distressing imagery of one catastrophe after another: From the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable communities, to cyclones in West Bengal, Odisha, and Maharashtra. From locust attacks in the central and northwestern plains, to the floods in Assam and Bihar. All of these have had disastrous effects on the Indian economy—millions in the country lost their jobs or were forced to take pay cuts, economic activity in rural India came to a halt, and migrants were forced to walk hundreds of kilometres back home.
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    COVID-19 Has Brought Us Great Opportunities To Volunteer And Bring Change
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-08-13) Marwaha, Puja
    Apart from wreaking havoc on the world with its deadly impact, COVID-19 has also brought out one innate nature of mankind – goodness. As we have seen many around us distributing stocks and ration to the distressed, marginalised and starving people out in the open, many of our tireless volunteers are looking at a world beyond corona – a world that is safe, healthy and bountiful
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    CSR clause is a breakthrough initiative in CSR arena
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2013-12-18) Marwaha, Puja
    Firstly, from an India Inc perspective, what is CSR and what should it achieve? Currently it is only perceived as charity and social work. In India, historically, corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been perceived as charity and/or philanthropy. However, in the last few years, corporate responsibility has gained significance in India as companies realise that for participation in the global economy, investment in sustainability is essential. Their own role in driving future markets and social evolution in India is gaining significance.
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    Death Penalty Ordinance for Child Rape
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018) Marwaha, Puja
    Increasing numbers of crimes against children leads us to is, what can we do to prevent these numbers from escalating, and how do we keep our children safe?
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    During This COVID-19 Lockdown, Let Children Discover A New Friend In You
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-04-23) Marwaha, Puja
    While India and the rest of the world grapple with the COVID-19 lockdown, it is important to shift our focus to children and see how they are adapting to the new normal. This article explores ways to engage with children and help them discover themselves, the 'joie de vivre', and most importantly, discover a friend in you.
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    Education still a far-away dream for some children
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2015-08-18) Marwaha, Puja
    Millions of children in India are unable to go to school and study because of their economic constraints. What does freedom mean to these children?
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    Free the child from all barriers this Independence Day
    (CRY - Child Rights & You, 2017-08-15) Marwaha, Puja
    CRY celebrate seven decades of independence, CRY must give all our children the gift of real freedom – from prejudice, barriers, discrimination, enabling them to learn, grow and realise their full potential
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    Giving children back their childhood
    (THE HINDU, 2016-05-01) Marwaha, Puja
    Our child protection laws need to be implemented better, and we must focus on rehabilitating children rescued from sweatshops
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    How Chandni and her friends scripted the saga to success
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2019-08-14) Marwaha, Puja
    On one of my field visits to Samastipur, a district town in Bihar, a couple of years back, I met Chandni (name changed). I went there to meet the locals in an area where one of our partner organisations was working. Chandni was still very much in her early teens. She came running to meet me, highly recommended as one of the upcoming singers of her village. There was something in the vibrant smile she wore, as she sang a couple of songs for me. By the time she stopped singing, I knew that I wanted to know about her journey.