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Labour Day: Child Labour still prevalent in India

12-year-old Jatindra, with his younger brother Laxman (7 year-old), carrying waste material of an industrial area, ..... Read More

Child rights body formulates norms on protection of kids from abuse

Geeta Gupta , Geeta Gupta : New Delhi, Tue Apr 23 2013, 01:28 hrs In the wake of the brutal rape of a five-year-old girl last week, the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has now formulated child protection guidelines to cover different physical, emotional and sexual abuse, to ..... Read More

Child malnutrition in India

Arvind Panagariya | May 2, 2013, 12.00AM IST The problem is likely to be less severe than UN statistics indicate, given faulty yardsticks If asked to name the state with the lowest incidence of child malnutrition in India, readers will overwhelmingly pick one of Kerala, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, ..... Read More

Need to know: Here’s how a child sex abuser operates

by Danish May 2, 2013 15:16 IST “I enjoy young people. I love being around them. I even feel like a child myself,” Jerry Sandusky, accused of 40 child molestation charges in the year 2011, told NBC. The bestial rapes of two young girls in New Delhi, earlier ..... Read More

Social policies like MGNREGS can tackle child labour: Report

New Delhi,Human Interest/Society,Immigration/Law/Rights, Mon, 29 Apr 2013 New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) Social protection policies such as MGNREGS and the direct cash transfer scheme can play a key role in fighting child labour, a report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said Monday. The report, "International Programme on the Elimination of ..... Read More