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Govt integrating emergency helplines for children, womenThe Emergency Response Support System (ERSS) - 112 - is a pan-India number for providing emergency support such as police, fire and ambulan...
Foster care in India still relegated to the backburnerFoster parents only have guardianship rights, to take care of a child till s/he turns 18. An established concept in the western world, a le...
With limited access to internet, India’s poor risk falling through the gaps as schools go digitalIn India, a country where the gaps in access to education and the Internet were already vast, poor families are struggling to stay the cour...
Report by CJ of J&K HC doesn't support claim that people unable to access the court: SCA bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said it would entertain the petition regarding alleged detention of children in Kashmir as the...
Need for balance between State's actions & citizen's right: Supreme CourtDipak Misra, hearing a petitions challenging Aadhaar, said no system in the world was secure and the issue was not as to how data is collec...
No Aadhaar, no sops after June 30: CentreThe Centre's fresh affidavit countered new petitions by Shantha Sinha and others, which have sought stay of the notification under Section ...
Nandan lives a myth, Ananth rides Modi wave: Nina P NayakNayak is confident of her victory from the 1.6-million strong Bangalore South constituency, which is the battleground between Ananth Kumar ...
DCPCR lays down guidelines to prevent child abuseDelhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights has formulated guidelines for prevention of child abuse in the country.
- Retain juvenile age: NCPCR to MHA
The home ministry is in a bind as there are strong voices of important stakeholders emerging first from the women and child development min...
- Security forces not to occupy school buildings: Government
The Centre has given clear-cut instructions to the states that security forces engaged in the counter-insurgency operations should not be a...
Narendra Modi's comments on malnutrition 'a cruel joke': NCPCRNCPCR today termed as a "cruel joke" Modi's comment attributing high rate of malnutrition in his state to figure conscious girls.
- Comm'n for banning even small acts of punishment
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has recommended expanding the ambit of the punishment, that is banned, to include ev...
- Profile: Shanta Sinha
Child rights activist Shantha Sinha, founder of MV Foundation and proud winner of the Magsaysay Award, has her plate full.