Question

visit some school in your locality and prepare a report on issue of protecting child rights. answers the question within1000 words

Answer 1

PROTECTING CHILD RIGHTS IN SCHOOLS The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) was set up in March 2007 under the Commission for Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005, an Act of Parliament (December 2005). The Commission’s Mandate is to ensure that all Laws, Policies, Programmes, and Administrative Mechanisms are in consonance with the Child Rights perspective as enshrined in the Constitution of India and also the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. According to international law, a child means every human being below the age of 18 years. This is a universally accepted definition of a child and comes from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). India has always recognised the category of persons below the age of 18 years as distinct legal entity. That is precisely why people can vote or get a driving license or enter into legal contracts only when they attain the age of 18 years. While all children need protection, because of their social, economic, or even geographical location, some children are more vulnerable than others and need special attention. These children are: Homeless children (pavement dwellers, displaced/evicted, refugees, etc.), Migrant children, Street and runaway children, Orphaned or abandoned children, Working children, Child beggars, Children of prostitutes, Trafficked children, Children in jails/prisons, Children affected by conflict, Children affected by natural disasters, Children affected by HIV/AIDS, Children suffering from terminal diseases, Disabled children and Children belonging to the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes. All people under the age of 18 are entitled to the standards and rights guaranteed by the laws that govern our country and the international legal instruments we have accepted by ratifying them. The Constitution of India guarantees all children certain rights, which have been specially included for them. These include: 1. 2. 3. 4. Right to free and compulsory elementary education for all children in the 614 year age group (Article 21 A). Right to be protected from any hazardous employment till the age of 14 years (Article 24). Right to be protected from being abused and forced by economic necessity to enter occupations unsuited to their age or strength (Article 39(e). Right to equal opportunities and facilities to develop in a healthy manner and in conditions of freedom and dignity and guaranteed protection of childhood and youth against exploitation and against moral and material abandonment (Article 39 (f)). Besides these they also have rights as equal citizens of India, just as any other adult male or female: 1. 2. 3. 4. Right to equality (Article 14). Right against discrimination (Article 15). Right to personal liberty and due process of law (Article 21). Right of weaker sections of the people to be protected from social injustice and all forms of exploitation (Article 46). Research, documentation and interventions by government and the civil society groups in the past have clearly brought forth many of the child protection issues. Some of them that concern school education are: Gender Discrimination, Caste discrimination, Disability, Corporal Punishment in schools, Examination Pressure and Student Suicides, etc. It is the responsibility of the school teacher to ensure that rights of school students are protected properly and they are not subjected to injustice in school premises.

Answer 2

the framework for the protection of children's rights need to first ensure that families where children come from are able to provide children with the basic needs such as food, shelter clothing and health. another step to be taken by the framework is to address the children's need. these are the needs for the children who have fallen through certain cracks such as destitute, the abandoned children and the children who are orphan.