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NCPCR to launch school project for street children

TNN | Feb 6, 2014, 03.35 AM IST RANCHI: In a torn white dress which has turned brown because of dirt, clutching an old plastic bag an eight-year-old Leela was found looking busily for discarded boxes and plastic bottles inside a big garbage bin. If she found some of the items she ..... Read More

Nine is Mine – From Kandhamal to the United Nations

By Pallithanam Thomas Hyderabad, Sep. 26. A delegation of children from different states of India reached New York on 18th September to interact with governmental and non-governmental organizations  as well as with UN agencies to high light the need for listening to the ..... Read More

Child labour: India’s hidden shame

By Shilpa KannanBBC News, Delhi I 5 February 2014 The law in India is vague on when children can legally work Rescued from forced employment, 13-year-old Lakshmi is frail and frightened. Two child protection officers hold her on either side as she walks into the police station. She was abducted ..... Read More

Women and Children’s Lives Can Be Saved

Posted: 02/03/2014 8:59 am EST Updated: 04/05/2014 5:59 am EDT We know how to prevent the 900,000 maternal deaths that occur every year in the world. And one million babies could be saved each year if they had better nutrition and health care. I learned this and much more while participating in ..... Read More

10 child workers escape from protection home

Priti Nath Jha,TNN | Feb 5, 2014, 03.35 AM IST MUZAFFARPUR: Ten child workers, aged between 6 and 16, who had been rescued from different places of north Bihar during the last one month, escaped from the Bal Raksha Grih (child protection home) of Sikandarpur area here during the early ..... Read More