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There Are at Least 500 Child Soldiers Fighting in Northeast India, and the World Hasn’t Noticed

Arijit Sen / Imphal, India I March 24, 2014 Insurgent armies in India's restive Northeast region are exploiting the area's poverty to recruit and press-gang underage fighters — and the problem has dramatically worsened in recent years Correction appended: March 25, 2014 ..... Read More

Taking the Edu Route to Stop Child Marriages

By Express News Service – CHENNAI I Published: 26th March 2014 07:30 AM Child rights activists at the conference organised by Samakalvi Iyakkam-Tamil Nadu (SKI-TN) | P Ravikumar In an effort to prevent child marriages in the State, child rights activists have demanded that the scope of the RTE Act 2009 be widened so ..... Read More

Pure ‘Insanitation’: 200,000 Children Die Each Year Because India Doesn’t Have Enough Toilets

More than 650 million people in this nation practice open defecation. A child looks on from his cardboard bed in a garbage-strewn slum in New Delhi. (Photo: Tengku Bahar/AFP/Getty Images) MAR 21, 2014 Mary Slosson has written for Reuters, The New York Times, Washington Post, and The ..... Read More

JJB moots action against erring schools

TNN | Mar 23, 2014, 02.11 AM IST LUCKNOW: The Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) of Lucknow has also recommended action against the schools which failed to provide appropriate records to ascertain the age of the accused in the Aashiana gang rape case. Accusing the schools of wasting the board's time by not ..... Read More

Aashiana rape case accused an adult: JJB

TNN | Mar 22, 2014, 03.53 AM IST LUCKNOW: Gaurav Shukla, the prime accused in the Aashiana gang rape case, was declared an adult at the time of committing the crime by the Lucknow's Juvenile Justice Board on Friday. It was for the second time in nine-year-old case the board has declared ..... Read More