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Taking Care of Children of Migrant Workers

A significant number of residents of Bhaggupurva hamlet in Nagnedi panchayat (Banda district) of Uttar Pradesh) migrate regularly from the village as they cannot earn their subsistence in the...

India 131st out of 180 countries on child survival rankings: WHO-UNICEF-Lancet report

The report highlights the various contributors – social, environmental and other, that threaten the lives of children everywhere

How a child’s Slippers were used to terrorize a school: Bidar

Imagine a posse of policemen led by a senior...

NRC Assam: Respite for excluded children if parents are in final list

CJP’s IA had secured the order from the SC that children who were excluded from the final NRC list if their parents’ names are in it not be sent to detention centers

Illegal and inhuman: Child rights groups condemn Bidar police’s investigation of children

They condemned the interrogation of children and the charges of sedition slapped on parent and authorities

CJP’s big win: SC hears petition, orders no children be sent to detention camps in Assam

CJP’s application sought directions from the apex court that drew attention to the Constitutional, legal obligations and prayed, specifically that no child excluded from the NRC is either sent to detention camps nor separated from their parents in Assam.

Breaking! SC on CJP petition: No children be sent to detention camps in Assam

Image Courtesy: thenation.comThe Supreme Court has directed the Assam...

Kota infant death case becomes NHRC’s first case of the year

The infant death toll reached 107 after NHRC took suo moto cognizance of the case and asked for a detailed report.

No benches, no drinking water for 400 students of BMC-run school

However, parents prefer the Jarimari Municipal Urdu School for its proximity and efforts taken by teachers

Did UP police sexually torture minors in custody?

Reports of teenage boys being admitted in hospital with what could be sexual injuries

Poverty forces Kerala children to eat mud to survive

An alcoholic husband has pushed Sridevi and her six kids to this situation

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