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54% marriages in West Bengal are of minors

Jhimli Mukherjee Pandey & Dwaipayan Ghosh, TNN | Sep 25, 2013, 03.52AM IST KOLKATA: Bengal is among the top four states in the country when it comes to child marriage. A nation-wide survey by the Centre has revealed that of the total marriages that take place in Bengal, 54.7% are of ..... Read More

Ignorance no excuse for child labour

October 1, 2013 Ben Doherty,  SENIOR CORRESPONDENT FOR FAIRFAX MEDIA View more articles from Ben Doherty   Illegal child labour still behind Australian footballs A year after Fairfax Media exposed the illegal child labour ..... Read More

Indian Society Treats Children as Slaves

9:00 am IST, Sep 25, 2013 By Shanoor Seervai Children tried to salvage reusable material from a lake, a day after the immersion of idols of the elephant-headed Hindu God Ganesha in Bhopal, Sept. 19.   Rajeev Gupta/Associated Press Until last year, Kajol Menon was executive director of Childline India ..... Read More

Andhra Pradesh to get child rights commission

TNN | Sep 24, 2013, 02.04AM IST HYDERABAD: In the wake of children increasingly becoming victims of abuse, the government has decided to set up a child rights commission to look into the welfare of minors. Headed by women and child welfare minister V Sunita Lakshma Reddy, the new committee comprising ..... Read More

Accept school certificate as age proof: Supreme Court

Saturday, 21 September 2013 – 4:45pm IST | Agency: IANS Justice K.S. Radhakrishnan and Justice A.K. Sikri made these remarks as the court allowed an appeal by Ranjeet Goswami, who had challenged the Madhya Pradesh High Court verdict. Noting the large number of cases where the question of whether or not ..... Read More