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Unlearning safe touch with children
Catching them young, Mumbai based NGO Arpan runs personal safety education classes in schools to identify and prevent child sexual abuse. Deepa Ranganathan observes how these sessions teach important...
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Seven Sisters Speak: Guns and boots – Child soldiers in Manipur
by Richard Kamei Though movements against child soldiers in Manipur are only just picking up, the issue has been rampant since the early 90s. Pic – rajkumar1220 | Flickr Manipur is well known for the...
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Give importance to child rights this upcoming election: CRY
As India gears up for the 16th General Elections, politicians must give priority to child rights in their manifestos. India has the largest number of children in the world. One in every 6 children in...
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Child labour: An accepted endemic reality in India
Pic – CRY India It is 5:00 AM. Three run-down trucks trudge down the lonely stretch of road in Nillakotai village in Tamil Nadu’s Dindigul district. It is an eerie scene: the trucks carry children aged...
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Making schools safer for children: Beyond the CCTV camera cure
The terrifying news of a six-year old girl’s alleged rape in Bangalore’s posh Vibgyor School at the hands of her own teacher has unleashed tremendous concern about the safety of children in Indian...
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Changing the heart of the bully behind the screen
Cyberbullying has been defined by the National Crime Prevention Council as “When the Internet, cell phones, or other devices are used to send or post text or images intended to hurt or embarrass...
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Saving the children of Marathwada from the vagaries of migration
Walk into most villages in Parbhani today and you will get the eerie feel of being in a long-forgotten ghost-town. Deserted, dry and desolate, Parbhani, like many other areas in Maharashtra’s...
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Laying the primary foundation for child rights protection in India
Photo cc: Pratham Books Last year in the month of May, 455 children were trafficked to Kerala from states like Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. These children accompanied by 33 adults, including...
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