Support unit formed to implement integrated child protection s...

However, among various flagship programmes, Integrated Child Protection Scheme did not figure anywhere

The recruitment of child soldiers in India appears to be rampant, with hundreds of children involved in armed conflicts. A report notes that children are used extensively by insurgents and, at times, the state. In April last year, three teenage boys ...

TEAM HERALD teamherald@herald-goa.com PANJIM: The government is contemplating of constituting a State Level Child Protection Society under the Integrated Child Protection Scheme to protect children's rights, Secretary Women and Child Development P ...

GUWAHATI, April 28 The Asian Centre for Human Rights (ACHR) in its report India's Hell Holes: Child Sexual Assault in Juvenile Justice Homes stated that sexual offences against children in India had reached an epidemic proportion and a large number ...

The Government has taken a number of initiatives to benefit girl child in the country. Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 (PCMA) was brought into force from 1st November, 2007. SABLA, a Scheme for empowering adolescent girls, has been launched ...

A few days ago in Delhi, a five-year-old girl stepped out to play and did not return. She was found two days later in the neighbourhood, raped, brutalised and left for dead. A day or two before the Delhi case came to light, in Aligarh too a ...

Education is likely to become firmly in focus as a key market for security suppliers following a recent Government announcement to slash spending in many Whitehall departments whilst investing the savings into schools and transport schemes. However, ...

From Lalit K Jha Washington, May 20 (PTI) An Indian activist, who recently won a top American fellowship as an emerging leader, said she wants a complete ban on child labour in India."I plan to urge them (Indian Government), to pass the amendment to ...

The Department of Women and Child Development (DWCD) has written to some hospitals in the city to withhold their programmes for training the staff to work in Collaborative Child Response Units (CCRUs). The move may severely affect child victims of ...