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India, second in child marriages 12 September 2014
According to a UN report India had the highest number of unregistered children under age five between 2000 and 2012 and is the second-highest in number of child marriages. The report also said, along with India, Afghanistan, Bangaldesh and the...
Keywords: Child Marriages, India Child Marriages, Child rights, Child Marriages
Read MoreSouthern cities turn centers of child prostitutes 19 July 2011
Five to six years ago, the age group of child prostitutes in India varied from 14 to 16 years but unfortunately this has now decreased to 10 to 14 years. In some cities, even the girls of 9 years old...
Keywords: child prostitutes, misuse of political power and child marriages, abuse of child rights, NGOs and social activists
Read MoreLet us blame ourselves 24 January 2013
The chairperson of the newly constituted National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), Shanta Sinha has spoken about the child rights in the wake of child rights day today. The programme, which was organized at RTC Kala Bhavan in...
Keywords: shanta sinha child rights, rtc kala bhavan, national commission for protection of child rights, ncpcr child rights day
Read MoreModi sarkar now after govt bodies 20 June 2014
Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has promised to transform the India within sixty months, want to sweep the entire UPA government traces so as to start from the scratch. Modi firstly removed the group of Ministers [GoMs], then he was...
Keywords: Top Stories, Safai Karmacharis, Modi sarkar now after govt bodies, NDMA vice chairman M Sasidhar Reddy
Read MoreFemale Child Abuse Menace 06 November 2013
Can you believe that 53% of the children face child abuse? These are the tips to address the menace. First of all the parents should keep a watch on the daily activities of the children just by befriending with them...
Keywords: children face child abuse, Child Welfare Committee, State Child Rights Commission, Child Welfare Committee
Read MoreChild prostitution, a splotch on Indian nation 18 July 2011
Child prostitution has become a common commercial phenomenon in most of the countries and we find very few countries where it is not an organized trade. No doubt, it is a centuries-old social problem that has gradually sustained and spread...
Keywords: destruction of joint families, Child prostitution, Child prostitution, bonded labor
Read MoreIndia activist awarded Nobel prize 10 October 2014
Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi and Pakistan's Malala Yousafzai have been awarded the coveted Nobel Peace Prize for 2014 for the struggle against the suppression of children and for the right of all children to education. Kailash Satyarthi a...
Keywords: child labour, Malala Yousafzai, child rights, Bachpan Bachao Andolan
Read More80 percent students in Indian schools are humiliated:Study 12 March 2012
The survey was conducted to study the scale and magnitude of corporal punishment in the everyday school experiences of India's children, types of violent punishment prevailing in Indian schools and analyse by age the prevalence of different types of punishments...
Keywords: 80 percent students in Indian schools, Guidelines for Eliminating Corporal Punishment in Schools, cruel practice, everyday school experiences of India's children
Read MoreGlobal NGOs step in to protect child domestic labor 23 April 2013
Arousing a feeling of interest, ten leading international organizations are calling on ministers of labor around the globe in a letter released at the beginning of the week to protect child domestic workers. They are also calling to ratify the...
Keywords: slavery, international labor rights forum, international news, domestic workers convention
Read MoreBoy for Sale at Rs 5 only 23 January 2015
The online classifieds portal Quikr.com got involved in a controversy for allegedly advertising a boy for sale at Rs. 5. This incident came into limelight when the National Committee for the Protection of Child Rights spotted this strange and unconvincing...
Keywords: Quikr.com, National Committee for protection of Child rights, Information Technology Ministry, National Committee for protection of Child rights
Read MoreDear women, never degrade yourselves 24 January 2013
Customs and traditions-these two words are something really important to each one of us. If we carefully dig into the so called customs, unfortunately, many of them appear like evils and one amongst them is dowry! In fact, to those...
Keywords: women giving dowry, women giving dowry, dowry, bride price
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