Browsing by Author "Moitra, Soha"

Now showing 1 - 9 of 9
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    10 facts you must know about child labour in India on Anti Child Labour Day
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2018-06) Moitra, Soha
    We pass by so many children indulging in some work or the other every day. The sight has been growing on us slowly but surely to the extent that we have accepted the situation as ‘normal’ in India. Some of us who want to justify it come up with statements like “Poverty is the reason they are into labour”, or “They are only helping their parents in bringing in a stable income”.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Break the stranglehold of starvation, free the children
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2018-12-10) Moitra, Soha
    The death of three sisters due to starvation shook Delhi last month. Mansi, 8, Paro, 5, and Sukho, 2, were found unconscious in a pool of vomit. They were brought dead to hospital and the post mortem revealed that they died of starvation. It is appalling that the capital city has been struggling to tackle malnutrition among children despite the many endeavours by the government. According to NFHS 4 (National Family Health Survey), over 62 per cent children are anaemic in urban Delhi and that speaks volumes about the state of affairs regarding child health.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Child marriages: The plight of child grooms nobody talks about
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2019-01-16) Moitra, Soha
    Statistics point out that Rajasthan sees one of the highest instances of child marriage in the country. While the conversations largely revolve around girl children, the boys in the state are at the risk of being married off before their 20s too. National Family Health Survey data indicates that 35 per cent of the women aged between 20 and 24 years who were surveyed were married before 18 years. Thirty five per cent of men aged between 25 and 29 years who were surveyed were married before age 21 years as well.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Dreams don’t discriminate’ – a summer of dreams
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2018-08-12) Moitra, Soha
    10-year-old Nainika took a quick look around the army regiment in the Delhi Cantonment area and gasped in disbelief. “I didn’t know there were girls in the army!” she squealed, trying hard to keep her excitement under control. Ishan was amused to know that one needn’t be as tall as Amitabh Bachchan to join the army. Among other things that Nainika, Ishan, and their friends learnt, the most alluring bit was that getting into the army did not depend on the marks scored in the classroom alone.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Driving stereotypes out of the boundary
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2017-08-14) Moitra, Soha
    Every day, the multi-talented girl wakes up at the crack of dawn, completes her household chores, goes to school, finishes her homework, plays cricket with the girls in her community and solves their problems. Considering the fact that the people living in the slums are not very supportive of or encouraging to girls doing anything out of the box, it took Kavita a lot of courage to stay on track.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    National Girl Child Day 2020
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-01-24) Moitra, Soha
    गाँव मे फ्रॉक मे खेलती बच्चियाँ भी थीं, निक्कर और शर्ट मे खेलते बच्चे भी और उन्हें संभालती साड़ी वाली महिलाएं भी. लेकिन गायब थीं तो सिर्फ ‘सलवार कमीज़’ वाली किशोरियाँ. संस्था चाइल्ड राइट्स एंड यू (CRY) की क्षेत्रीय निदेशक सोहा मोइत्रा बता रही हैं ये चिंताजनक कहानी...
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Need for Children’s Collectives: The Power Enclosed in Small Hands
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2019-05-27) Moitra, Soha
    The power of knowledge is indeed empowering. And the children in CRY project area of Faridabad demonstrate this feeling of empowerment when they set out to find answers to their problems.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Rehabilitation of young trafficked children poses big challenge: Soha Moitra
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 18-10-07) Moitra, Soha
    According to a recent study, "Missing Children In Delhi 2018", by Alliance for People's Rights (APR) and NGO Child Rights and You (CRY), 26,761 children went missing in Delhi in the last five years. Of these, only 9,727 could be traced, the report stated.
  • No Thumbnail Available
    Item
    Youth volunteerism: a journey that makes ordinary youngsters extraordinary humanitarians
    (Child Rights and You (CRY), 2019-08-12) Moitra, Soha
    On this International Youth Day, a look at how volunteering changes the worldview of the young – how it shapes their perspective and prepares them better to take on the challenges the future holds for them.