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Item 10 facts you must know about child labour in India on Anti Child Labour Day(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2018-06) Moitra, SohaWe 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”.Item 15 to 18 year-olds working(CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018-06-13) Marwaha, PujaOur society often confuses adolescents as 'adults' and unfortunately pushes them into a world of work which they are not prepared for.Item A 3-year-old was raped inside bus in Kolkata(CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018-03-07) Ganotra, KomalChild safety is being severely compromised every day at every possible place.Item “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, PujaPerturbed 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.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 Building a ‘Chakravyuha’ – cracking the complexities of modern slavery, including trafficking(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2018-09-07) Marwaha, PujaThe 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.Item Call it a memorable year for children? No, not quite(CRY - Child Rights & You, 2017-12-30) Marwaha, PujaIn 2017, we saw some positive changes, but at the same time witnessed loss of life, morbidity and vulnerability which children face in our countryItem Child labour: When do we start to rewrite their story(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-06-12) Marwaha, PujaThe 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.Item Child marriages: The plight of child grooms nobody talks about(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2019-01-16) Moitra, SohaStatistics 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.Item 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 Children Caught in a Pandemic: COVID-19 Can’t Justify Child Labour(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-09-01) Marwaha, PujaFor 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.Item Death Penalty Ordinance for Child Rape(CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018) Marwaha, PujaIncreasing 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?Item Giving children back their childhood(THE HINDU, 2016-05-01) Marwaha, PujaOur child protection laws need to be implemented better, and we must focus on rehabilitating children rescued from sweatshopsItem How Many Deaths the Kathua Girl Died(CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018) Marwaha, PujaAs a nation, we owe our children a safe childhood and nothing short of that. Neither can we afford to play a blame game, nor can we let the focus shift from the fact that with every crime committed against children we are failing them miserably. It is time to put child protection at the centre stage and adequately invest for preventing crime against children.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 International Missing Children's Day 2018(CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018-05-25) MOITRA, SOHAA total of 174 children went missing every day in the year 2016. Trafficking is a money-power nexus that is expanding by the day; it is the third largest form of trans-national illegal trade after arms and drugs. Delhi is ahead of all other cities with regard to number of missing children in 2018 — a spot it's held on to for the past few years.Item International Women’s Day: How education can rewrite the story of child marriages in India(Down To Earth, 2021-03-08) Marwaha, PujaAdolescent girls are more vulnerable to child marriage as they drop-out of school before completing education. Here’s an attempt at exploring the deep-seated problems that start after a girl becomes a victim of child marriage and how education can be a game changer in fighting the issueItem 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 Justice for ‘Young’ in the hands of ill equipped JJBs(CRY - Child Rights & You, 2018) Ganotra, Komal“Juvenile” emanates from the Latin word “Juvenis” which means young; Juvenile Justice System, thus being the system to ensure justice to a child.
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