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Item Safeguarding childhoods from online harm during COVID-19 and beyond(Down To Earth, 2022-02-08) Marwaha, PujaAs we celebrate Safer Internet Day, let’s analyse impact of the powerful medium on India’s children as the opportunity not only provides uninterrupted learning and let children explore a wide range of interests amid the pandemic but also exposes them to several online risksItem Ryan International murder: Beyond kneejerk reactions, Pradyuman’s death must spur a culture of child safety(The Times of India, 2017-09-20) Marwaha, PujaWith time tears will dry up, fear will fade away and Pradyuman’s grief stricken parents will be forgotten. But the fact that our children live under constant threat will not change unless we wake up to this truth and take decisive action now. Crime against children is reported every 5 minutes in India and it has increased by more than 500% in the past decade.Item Of unlocking doors and other possibilities: why fighting child labour is of paramount importance(Social Story Magazine, 2018-07-05) Marwaha, PujaMany of us often equate education with wearing a school uniform, picking up a bag full of books, getting attendance marked, and acing examinations. But what we tend to forget about is its potential to unlock doors. Yes, we’re talking about doors which, when unlocked, can lead children to tap their hidden potential – doors to a future that is not bound by limitations of ignorance, and by limited capacity to make independent choices. Education can actually turn around lives, and how...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 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 “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 Recalling 2020: How COVID-19 impacted kids(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-12-29) Marwaha, Puja2020 was a topsy-turvy year and the new normal kept us away from a lot. As the year comes to a close, here’s a look back at the fears Indian children had to undergo. India entered into a countrywide lockdown nine months ago to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and our life hasn’t been the same since.Item A Pandemic Cannot Justify Child Labour(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-09-02) 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.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 Need for Children’s Collectives: The Power Enclosed in Small Hands(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2019-05-27) Moitra, SohaThe 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.Item Rehabilitation of young trafficked children poses big challenge: Soha Moitra(Child Rights and You (CRY), 18-10-07) Moitra, SohaAccording 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.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 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 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 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 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 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 A pandemic cannot justify child labour(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-08-25) 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. Amidst these ‘visible’ problems, there are other issues that have remained ‘invisible’. One such issue is the effect of the pandemic on children, specifically, an increased risk of child labour.Item Saluting Volunteerism, A Spirit That Defeated The Pandemic(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-12-05) Marwaha, PujaThis year has introduced our world to one of the toughest challenges we have faced in our lifetimes. The only ‘comfort’ is that we are all in it together – we all are offered with an opportunity to face it collectively. And if we are asked about the silver lining, well, all through the months of the COVID-19 pandemic, kindness has become contagious too – way more than the dreaded virus. We have seen volunteerism to be on a high and so is the spirit of going beyond oneself. In the pursuit of a better world, what can be a bigger ray of hope than this?Item Stories of hope and despair(Child Rights and You (CRY), 2020-07-27) Marwaha, PujaReverse migration of the workers and the distressing visuals of their hardships while returning to their villages during and after the lockdown have raised some important concerns. Be it the video of a migrant worker improvising a wooden cart and pulling his pregnant wife and infant daughter in their arduous journey, or that of an exhausted woman dragging her suitcase on a highway, while her five year old son, worn out by exhaustion and weariness, sleeps on the suitcase — these visuals stare at us with tell-tale stories of despair.
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