Goals of child protection cannot be met without decriminalising non-exploitative consensual intimacy. And the principle of best interest of the child cannot be followed without recognizing evolving capacities and agency of children and adolescents.

HAQ: Centre for Child Rights’ Submission to the Law Commission on Decriminalising Non-Exploitative Consensual Intimacy involving minors aged 16-18 years’.

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