Spare the child

ELEANOR HALL: The Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse is calling for submissions on whether there should be a national screening system for checking the backgrounds of people who work with children. At the moment the screening varies from ...

There is a lack of "political will" to combat child labour, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) chief said here Tuesday.Shantha Sinha said also there was a "political-economic nexus" that did want the practice eradicated."Child labour ...

Newly-appointed chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Kushal Singh Wednesday said crime against children was an area of "major focus"."That is an area of major focus," Singh told IANS when asked about the recent ...

The right to a legal identity is fundamental to meeting all other rights and protect a child from other forms of abuse and exploitation. Pictured here children in Kafue, Zambia. Credit: Brian Moonga/IPS There is much to celebrate this week as the ...

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has issued notices to the Haryana Police and the state education department after two women employees of a prominent Gurgaon school were arrested for sexually abusing a Class III student for past ...

Member of National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Nina P Nayak has expressed shock over the incidents of unrestrained violation of child rights in the State. She is on a four-day visit to the State to take stock of implementation of ICPS, ...

The Indonesian Broadcasting Commission (KPI) and the National Commission on Child Protection (Komnas PA) are calling on the House of Representative to ban cigarette advertising. KPI member Ezki Suyanto said in a discussion on Wednesday — held to ...

The National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms and Plan Cameroon partnership in promoting and protecting, especially the rights of children, was on June 7, 2013 consolidated in Yaounde through a Memorandum of Understanding. The Chairman of the ...

Inspite of protests against child labour and focus on development of girl child, child labour is still being practised. Activists and civil society organisations involved in promoting child rights have called for strengthening the laws pertaining ...