An Initiative for the Wellbeing and Protection of India's Children
The United Nations defines Child Rights as a set of global legal commitments that say that children everywhere have the right to:
Survive & Develop
Be protected from violence, abuse & expolitation
have their views respected
have actions against them be taken in their best interest
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Child rights refer to the full range of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights for all children without discrimination. These rights are interdependent and indivisible. Child Rights give all children the opportunity to grow strong and confident and to realize thier full potential.
Child Rights have evolved over the years. Countries across the world have united to show their solidarity towards the welfare and protection of our children by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). This section will help us understand the foundation of child rights from a global perspective but applied to the Indian context.
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The History of Child Rights
Only in the early 20th century did world leaders first realise that children deserve special attention and protection. It was very common for children to work alongside adults in unsafe and sometimes inhuman conditions. With the horrors of World War I and the introduction of theories on child development by scholars like Sigmund Fraud, Jean Piaget and Erik Erickson, society realised the need to treat children differently from adults. Read More
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Child Rights Based Approaches
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A child rights based approach is "action that takes into consideration the rights of a child and its impact on children." While providing help to any child in distress or designing programs for children, it is important to take into consideration a rights based approach. IChild protection is incomplete without integration of an aggrieved child into the mainstream without any stigma and discrimination and is meaningless without advocacy for prevention of violations or recurrence. Read More
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The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
The United NationsConvention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) lies at the core of child rights practice around the world. In 1989 world leaders united to make a promise to not only protect but to ensure healthy growth and development of our child(ren), individually and collectively. 196 countries have ratified the UNCRC portraying solidarity and concern for the wellbeing of our children. The United States of America is the only country to have abstained from signing the Convention. Read More
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Child Rights Violations
Children are first human beings and Human Rights apply to them as well. Child Rights are exclusively for children, over and above their Human Rights. Needless to say, in the case of a child, child rights precede human rights. Secondly, the cause of a child rights violation is always external to the child. The source of most offences against children can be traced to a fault in the child’s ecosystem and the stakeholders within it. Further, even after the violation, the child continues to be at the discretion of adults who take decisions on his/her behalf. Read More