CHILD RIGHTS”

“RESPECTING,PROTECTING AND IMPLEMENTING

A SMALL BOY IN THE BUS

UNICEF and UNCRC

Important Union laws Guaranteeing Rights and Entitlement to Children

• 1. The Guardian and Wards Act, 1890• 2. The Reformatory Schools Act,1897• 3. The prohibition of Child Marriage Act,2006• 4. The Apprentices Act, 1961• 5. The Children (Pledging of Laour) Act, 1933.• 6. The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956• 7. The Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Ac, 1956• 8. The Immoral Traffic prevention Act, 1956• 9. The Women’s and Children’s Institutions (Licensing) Act, 1956• 10. The Young Person’s harmful Publication’s Act, 1956• 11. The Probation of Offender’s Act, 1958• 12. Orphanages and Other Charitable Homes (Supervision and Control) Act, 1960• 13. The Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986• 14. The Juvenile Justice ( Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000, repealed the Juvenile• Justice Act 1986. The 2000 act also has been amended in 2006 and 2010.• 15. The Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production,• Supply Distribution) Act, 1992 and its amendment of 2003• 16. The Pre- conception & Pre-natal Diagnostic Technique (Regulation, Prevention and• Misuse) Act, 1994 and its amendment of 2002.• 17. The Persons With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full• Participation)Act, 1995• 18. The factories Act 1948• 19. The Commissions For Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005

Important Schemes for Well- being of Children

• 1. Integrated Child Development Service Scheme• 2. Integrated Child Protection Scheme• 3. National awards for child Welfare.• 4. National Child Awards for Exceptional Achievements.• 5. Rajiv Gandhi Manav Seva Awards for Service to Children.• 6. Balika Samriddhi Yojna.• 7. Nutrition Programme For Adolescent Girls• 8. Early Childhood education for 3-6 age group children.• 9. Welfare of working children in need of Care and Protection• 10. Childline services• 11. Rajiv Gandhi National Creche Scheme for children of working mothers.• 12. UJJAWALA : A Comprehensive Scheme for Prevention of trafficking and Resue,• Rehabilitation and Re-integration of Victims of Trafficking and Commercial Sexual• Exploitation• 13. Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan• 14. National Rural Health Mission• 15. Rajiv Gandhi Scheme for empowerment of Adolescent Girls – SABLA.• 16. DhanaLakshami – Conditional Cash Transfer for Girl Child with insurance cover• 17. National Commission for Protection of Child Rights

RIGHT FOR NUTRITION AND WATER

HEALTH-CHILD RIGHTSWATER-THE SOURCE OF LIFE

STRANGE FACTS

• -Children in hundred million homes in our country lack water

• -35%of the developing world's low-birth weight babies are born in India.

• -40%of child malnutrition in the developing world is in India

• -21%OF THE COUNTRY’S DISEASES ARE WATER RELATED

RESULT OF WATER-BORNE DISEASE

POOR IMPLEMENTATION OF MID-DAY MEAL SCHEME LEADS

TO MALNUTRITION

RIGHT TO LIVE FOR ALL CHILDREN

DISABLED AND TRANSGENDER-CHILD RIGHTS

DISABLED AND TRANSGENDERED-CHILD

RIGHTSGOVT. SPECIAL

SCHOOL

IN VILLUPURAM FOR

HANDICAPPED

CHILDREN

DISCRIMINATION BASED ON CASTE

CASTE-Child rights “why do you come to

school, instead you could go and do the traditional work”.

DISCRIMINATION BASED ON GENDER

“They say I can get married and then I can study.But I know that

once I get married ,my dream will never come true"

GENDER-CHILD RIGHTS

GENDER-CHILD RIGHTS

• -Of every 100 children who drop out of school,66 are girls.

• -65% of girls in India are married by the age of 18 and become mothers soon after.

INFANTICIDE-FEMALE CHILDREN RIGHTS

CHILD ABUSE

CHILD ABUSE-CHILD RIGHTS

CHILD ABUSE

• -India has the world's

largest number of

sexually abused.

• A child below 16 raped

every 155th minute,

a child below 10 every 13th hour.

DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RACE

RACE-CHILD RIGHTS

CHILD LABOUR

CHILD LABOUR

India is home to the highest no. of child labourers in the world.

A LITTLE BOY WHO MAKES VESSELS FOR HIS LIVELIHOOD

THREE LITTLE CHILDREN CARRYING THE WASTE SEWAGE

A LIITLE CHILD WHO GET LESS WAGES

FOR THE MORE WORKS HE DO

A LITTLE CHILD WHO WANTS TO GO TO SCHOOL LIKE YOU AND ME

CHILD LABOUR-CHILD RIGHTS

• We destroy the childhood of these

children by transferring their identities into that of bonded labourers, street children, criminals and children, who are denied education and medicine, sold or trafficked

“IT IS NOT MY MISTAKE TO BE BORN HERE”

HAPPINESS-CHILD RIGHTS

“A society that denies a

child its happiness is a lifelesss society “

Madurai children of Thideer nagar

SOLUTIONS FOR THESE PROBLEMS

?

“RESPECTING,PROTECTING AND IMPLEMENTING

CHILD RIGHTS”

A.MANGAIYARKKARASISOCIOLOGY

STELLA MARIS

THANK YOU

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• CHILD RIGHTS-DR. I.DEVASAHAYAMStudents Module - Part II• Child Rights and Law-Maharukh Adenwalla a guidebook for legal interventions• CHILDREN IN INDIA 2012-govt. of IndiaA Statistical Appraisal• MAKE YOUR CHILD A WINNER-Pradeep Kapoor• CHILD DEVELOPMENT-third edition,Sueann Robinson

Ambran• TOUCHPOINTS-T.Berry Brazelton• Photographs,pictures and statistical sources:INTERNET