Research Proposal- Child Rights Awarenes

2016

Bodoland area is one of the most vulnerable as well as the most backward regions in India. Human rights including child rights are constantly violated in Bodoland region. People are not aware about their rights due to lack of education. Children are being torture, force to work as labour, killed in the name of militant, traffic, rape, etc. These are happening because of lack of education of parents, poor economic status of the society, and negligence, ignorance, discrimination and exploitation by both the state and the central governments. Parents can play very important role in children’s life. It is necessary for all parents to know about the child rights which will lead better life of children and the society as they have important role in developing the society when they become mature.

Kaav International Journal of Arts, Humanities & Social Science: A Refereed Peer Review Quarterly Journal, 2022

The traditional Indian society is hierarchically organised. Each stratum of this hierarchy is defined by the caste of people that constitute it. The caste system is fraught with economic implications and cultural diversities. It is evident from some sociological and anthropological studies (Mandelbaum, 1990; Dube, 1994) that in India there are wide gaps and variations along sociocultural experiences in different social segments. High order of disparities is apparent in economic, social, physical and affiliation conditions. Individuals of various social segments of the population grow with varied experiences due to their varied environments. In facts, Indian socio-economic setup provides a psychedelic array of hues with vast differences in experiential backgrounds. A large segment of rural and urban people in India still lives at the barest subsistence level, suffering from under and mal nutrition, socio-cultural inequality and other serious handicaps such as lack of elementary medic...

2016

The phrase Child Protection or Child Rights Protection become a fashion axiom of the development sector particularly among all international, national and local child development organizations. A plenty of child protection or child rights protection policies, strategies, mechanisms, projects are emerged all over the world following the UN convention on all types of Children's issues. But it is million dollar question whether all the efforts made to protect the children and their rights are reached to the gross roots level including the dead end of remote village particularly in India. There are about 43 crore children in the age group of 0-18 years; 16 crore children are in the age group of 0-6 years; of this there are 8.5 crore males and 7.88 crore females. It is estimated that 40 percent of the children are in difficult circumstances or vulnerable. The diverse socioeconomic , cultural and geographic conditions of the country resulted in diverse needs of children. The government seeks to adopt an inclusive approach for development and protection of children by addressing specific needs and concerns of different categories, particularly those who are most vulnerable. Government core concern include enduring the rights of all children to live, survival and safety, with special emphasis on physical, psychological and cognitive development , emotional and social wellbeing. Furthermore access to child care, education, nutrition, health care, clean drinking water and environment, shelter and justice are areas that are given special attention to eliminate inequalities, exclusion and discrimination experienced by the children. But the situation of the children in rural areas, it is found by various sources, is more vulnerable in all the terms such as health and nutrition, education, parental care, corporal and other punishments, child abuse trafficking, lack of family support, forced child labor, clean environment and drinking water, care and support and even safety.

Macalester International, 2012

The objective of this paper is to find out the status, health and human rights of woman and children in India. Really, can we be considered women and children as vulnerable groups in India? There are certain groups of human beings which either by nature or because of deep-rooted custom is weak and vulnerable, such as, child, women, disabled persons, aged persons etc. India has given equal status to women under its Constitution under Article 14 which provides that "the State shall not deny to any person equality before the law or the equal protection of the laws within the territory of India". The Constitution of India provides under the Article 15 that every female citizen has a right to access to shops, public restaurants, hotels and places of public entertainment and no restriction can be imposed on female citizens with regard to the use of wells, tanks, bathing ghats, roads and places etc. However, in order to improve their status further, the Constitution provides under Article 15(3) state may make special provisions for women. Likewise, the constitution of India under Article 24 provides that no child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment is prohibited but Child labour is prevailing still in India. According to the international Labour Organisation estimated in 2000 some 211 million children between 5 to 14 years of age work in developing countries, with about half working full time.

We worry about what a child will become tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today. Stacia Tauscher. Children are regarded as the future of the country. They are regarded as the ones who will represent the country in the coming years. But we often forget that they are not only the future representatives of our country but they are someone even today. Children are not something to be neglected, but rather they are the ones who deserve extra care and attention, both from the state as well as their families. The United Nations Conventions, the International Conventions, as well as the Indian Constitution and the domestic laws of the country provide mechanisms for the protection and promotion of rights of children. However, many of the provisions contained in these instruments are just there in pen and paper. When the question of implementation comes, the practical problem pops up. It has been around 25 years of the enactment of UDHR, the problem, however, has not yet been eradicated. There are numerous reasons for the neglect of child rights like unconcerned parents, broken families or the mentality of the societies. Many a time children are even not regarded as a group of human beings having their own wishes and aspirations. These problems relating to children are quite familiar to cities like Guwahati. Numbers of children are involved in begging, rag picking and petty offences. In this research paper the researchers have adopted both doctrinal and empirical study for deeper understanding of the problem. The researchers will conduct case studies in Guwahati by interviewing the child beggars and rag pickers roaming in the public places in the city. At the same time they will visit the Child Rights related NGOs like Child Line and Snehalaya to analyse their working in preserving the rights of children. An attempt will also be made to study what is stopping these Civil Society Organisations from attending every single case of violation of rights of children. Truly speaking, mechanisms are available yet they fail to protect the rights of the children. The present study is based on these problem and the various areas related to it.