Covid-19 Pandemic Threatens Children with Child Labor Rising in Country
4 years ago

Covid-19 Pandemic Threatens Children with Child Labor Rising in Country

News 18  

A boy who cried out when he was beaten for complaining of stomach pains drew attention from a passerby, who alerted police in the central Indian city of Agra. The 13-year-old boy who was working in the illegal shoe factory in Agra cannot be identified by name because Indian law forbids naming suspected victims of child labor and trafficking. The country has made serious gains in combatting child labor, but more than 10 million Indian children are still in some form of servitude, according to UNICEF. In many cases, families know the child traffickers, said Surya Pratap Mishra, a children’s rights activist. Ajit Singh, a child rights activist in Uttar Pradesh, said the government’s efforts to protect children since the pandemic began have been abysmal.

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Poor Laws, Living Standards: Is There a Way Out for India's Child Labourers?
1 year, 7 months ago

Poor Laws, Living Standards: Is There a Way Out for India's Child Labourers?

The Quint  

Adversity-free childhood is perhaps the most desirable feature to ensure better human capital. This alarming adversity is backed by a pronounced commitment to Sustainable Development Goal 8 with a target to eliminate all child labour by 2025, which remains far from getting realised in this decade. Along with an encouraging trend of the declining magnitude of this phenomenon in India …

The cruel nexus of child labour and intergenerational poverty in India
2 years, 2 months ago

The cruel nexus of child labour and intergenerational poverty in India

Hindustan Times  

Thirteen-year-old Aastha lives in a state of debt bondage since a farmer has loaned her parents ₹20,000 in exchange for three years of their daughter’s labour. The latest report by the National Crime Records Bureau presents a monumental challenge: 149,404 cases of crimes against children last year, a whopping 16% rise, of which 982 cases were registered as formal complaints …

Delhi: Child rights body launches helpline number for children in distress
2 years, 8 months ago

Delhi: Child rights body launches helpline number for children in distress

India Today  

The Delhi Commission For Protection of Child Rights has initiated an emergency response system, a helpline number, to help distressed children in the national capital. Having handled nearly 2.5 lakh calls in the past one year, DCPCR, the child rights watchdog in Delhi, is now expanding to include an emergency response system by means of an on-field distress helpline team. …

The child at the centre: The Hindu Editorial on Mission Vatsalya
2 years, 8 months ago

The child at the centre: The Hindu Editorial on Mission Vatsalya

The Hindu  

Schemes designed for social good do well on intent, but their success depends on whether they are built on principles of sustainability and work within structures of accountability. Mission Vatsalya, which has been operationalised, is one of the new triad of schemes along with Mission Shakti, and Poshan 2.0, that aims at securing a healthy and happy childhood for every …

Delhi: 73 child labourers rescued from factories; children mostly from UP and Bihar
2 years, 9 months ago

Delhi: 73 child labourers rescued from factories; children mostly from UP and Bihar

India Today  

A team of a child welfare organisation, Sahyog Care for You, along with the subdivisional magistrate of Narela have rescued 73 children from the factories in North Delhi. The team from the NGO working for kids revealed that they used to work as bonded labourers in polishing, toy and fan manufacturing units in north Delhi’s Bawana for 15 hours a …

India Recorded Over 350 Crimes Against Children Each Day Amid Covid Pandemic in 2020, Shows NCRB Data
3 years, 2 months ago

India Recorded Over 350 Crimes Against Children Each Day Amid Covid Pandemic in 2020, Shows NCRB Data

News 18  

A total of 1,28,531 crimes against children were recorded in India last year, implying that an average of 350 such cases were reported each day during the pandemic, according to an NGO’s analysis of data from National Criminal Records Bureau. When compared with figures from NCRB in 2019, however, there has been a drop of 13.3 per cent in the …

Rights activists caution against child labour and trafficking during pandemic
3 years, 5 months ago

Rights activists caution against child labour and trafficking during pandemic

Hindustan Times  

Child labour, abandonment by family members, risk of trafficking, child marriage, malnourishment, and an increasing number of school dropouts – these are some risks the national capital’s children are facing due to Covid-19 pandemic-induced hardships in marginalised communities, experts said. A Covid-19 ground report released by child rights NGO Protsahan, which is working closely with Delhi Commission for Protection of …

Children may also be at Covid risk, proper planning needed to protect them: Health Ministry
3 years, 5 months ago

Children may also be at Covid risk, proper planning needed to protect them: Health Ministry

India Today  

The Union Health Ministry on Friday raised concern about the rise in Covid-19 cases in several districts in India and cautioned that children may also be susceptible to the infection. During a press conference on the Covid-19 situation in the country, Health ministry joint secretary Lav Agarwal stressed that proper planning is needed to protect children from contracting the virus. …

Pandemic increased vulnerability to human trafficking: U.S. report
3 years, 5 months ago

Pandemic increased vulnerability to human trafficking: U.S. report

The Hindu  

The pandemic resulted in an increase in vulnerability to human trafficking and interrupted existing anti-traffic efforts, according to the Trafficking in Persons report, an annual study released by the U.S. State Department. On India, the report says that while it did not meet the minimum standards to eliminate trafficking, the government was making significant efforts, although these were inadequate, especially …

Third Wave of Covid-19 and Children: What You Need to Know About India’s Strategy and Vaccines for Kids
3 years, 6 months ago

Third Wave of Covid-19 and Children: What You Need to Know About India’s Strategy and Vaccines for Kids

News 18  

Even as India grapples with the second wave of Covid-19 that left health systems across the country crumbling, experts are already calling for preparations for the third wave, which they predict will hit the country later this year. Meanwhile, the Osmanabad district administration has formed a task force to protect children in the possible “third wave” of the Covid-19 pandemic. …

Children as victims of the pandemic
3 years, 6 months ago

Children as victims of the pandemic

The Hindu  

The second wave of coronavirusinfection might be showing signs of receding from parts of India, but there are serious concerns that the third wave might affect children. The Supreme Court bench comprising Justices L. Nageswara Rao and Aniruddha Bose heard the submissions in the suo motu case “In Re Contagion of COVID Virus in Children Protection Homes”. PM-CARES scheme On …

Child Labour Records 1st Rise in 20 Years, Millions More at Risk Due to Covid: ILO-UNICEF Report
3 years, 6 months ago

Child Labour Records 1st Rise in 20 Years, Millions More at Risk Due to Covid: ILO-UNICEF Report

News 18  

The number of children in child labour has risen to 16 crore worldwide — first increase in two decades — with millions more at risk due to COVID-19, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization and the UNICEF. The report — 'Child Labour: Global estimates 2020, trends and the road forward' — released ahead of the World …

Covid-19 impact: Jharkhand identifies 234 children who lost parents to virus
3 years, 6 months ago

Covid-19 impact: Jharkhand identifies 234 children who lost parents to virus

Hindustan Times  

The deadly coronavirus infection, that has killed over 5,000 people across Jharkhand since its outbreak last year, has also left hundreds of children orphaned or with a single parent, mostly after the onset of its second wave in early April this year. Special secretary at the department DK Saxena said, “Till now, we have identified as many as 234 children …

Govt asks state/UTs to protect children adversely impacted by Covid, enlists measures
3 years, 6 months ago

Govt asks state/UTs to protect children adversely impacted by Covid, enlists measures

India TV News  

The government has asked states and union territories to ensure care and protection to children who have been adversely impacted by COVID-19 pandemic. Immediate temporary rehabilitation of children through the existing child care facilities supported under Child Protection Services scheme must be ensured. To organise special inspection drives in collaboration with District Magistrates, for assessment of quality care in all …

Breaking the cycle of child labour is in India’s hands
3 years, 6 months ago

Breaking the cycle of child labour is in India’s hands

The Hindu  

The true extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child labour is yet to be measured but all indications show that it would be significant as children are unable to attend school and parents are unable to find work. What the data show As the world enters the third decade of the 21st century, 152 million children around …

COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi left 32 children orphaned, says child rights commission
3 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi left 32 children orphaned, says child rights commission

Firstpost  

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had on 14 May said the government will bear the cost of education and upbringing of children who were orphaned during the pandemic New Delhi: The Delhi child rights panel has identified 32 children who have been orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic in the National Capital. Ten more children, living with single parents, have lost them, …

Over 500 children orphaned in India due to second wave of Covid
3 years, 6 months ago

Over 500 children orphaned in India due to second wave of Covid

India TV News  

The surge in Covid cases and consequent deaths have left more than 500 children orphaned in India. The central government is constantly monitoring all these orphaned children in coordination with the state governments. For the care and well-being of such orphaned children, Rs 10 lakh has been released to each district across the country, through the Non-Institutional Child Care Fund. …

Coronavirus India Highlights: 577 Covid orphans reported so far by states since April 1, says Smriti Irani
3 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus India Highlights: 577 Covid orphans reported so far by states since April 1, says Smriti Irani

India Today  

As many as 577 children across the country were orphaned after their parents succumbed to Covid-19, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani said citing reports of states and union territories from April 1 till Tuesday. She also said that the government is committed to support and protect every vulnerable child who lost both parents to Covid. "GOI is committed …

The children left behind by covid-19
3 years, 7 months ago

The children left behind by covid-19

Live Mint  

R has been promised that his parents will be home soon. “We have also found cases of incest,” Protsahan India Foundation’s founder-director, Sonal Kapoor, says. How will children heal this trauma if they don’t express their feelings?” It was this thought of what a “covidorphan” might be going through emotionally that led Delhi’s Arjita Saxena to tweet last week that …

Andhra Pradesh sets up 13 care centres for children of Covid patients
3 years, 7 months ago

Andhra Pradesh sets up 13 care centres for children of Covid patients

India Today  

The Andhra Pradesh government has established 13 Child Care Institutions for children whose parents have either contracted Covid-19 and require medical attention, or who have died due to the infection. “Any child or guardian in need of this assistance can contact these helpline numbers, post which the district level team will be sent to the residence of the child and …

Closure of 1.5 million schools in India due to Covid-19 pandemic impacts 247 million children
3 years, 9 months ago

Closure of 1.5 million schools in India due to Covid-19 pandemic impacts 247 million children

India Today  

In India, the closure of 1.5 million schools due to the pandemic and lockdowns in 2020 has impacted 247 million children enrolled in elementary and secondary schools. Schools for more than 168 million children globally have been completely closed for almost a full year, said UNICEF. Schools closed for one year While talking about the impact of the pandemic on …

'Cannot Leave Our Children Behind': Kailash Satyarthi on Covid-19 Impact on Child Health, Education
3 years, 10 months ago

'Cannot Leave Our Children Behind': Kailash Satyarthi on Covid-19 Impact on Child Health, Education

News 18  

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on children’s education, physical and mental health across the world. During the last year, the Kailash Satyarthi Children’s Foundation has been working closely with government organisations and NGOs to contain rising cases of child labour. News18 got in touch with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and child labour and education expert Kailash Satyarthi …

Children's Day: COVID-19 showed us glaring holes in the public health system that risk the health of our children
4 years, 1 month ago

Children's Day: COVID-19 showed us glaring holes in the public health system that risk the health of our children

Firstpost  

Undernutrition continues to be associated with 50 percent of all under-five deaths and India accounts for third of the world’s stunted children according to the Global Nutrition Report 2018. As Oxfam’s Commitment to Reducing Inequality highlights, India’s spending on public health is the fourth lowest in the world. The result is an impact on healthcare delivery where access to routine …

Covid-19 Pandemic Has Created a Second Crisis in India — the Rise of Child Trafficking
4 years, 1 month ago

Covid-19 Pandemic Has Created a Second Crisis in India — the Rise of Child Trafficking

News 18  

One evening in August, a 14-year-old boy snuck out of his home and boarded a private bus to travel from his village in Bihar to Jaipur, a chaotic, crowded and historical city 800 miles away in Rajasthan. “Children have never faced such crisis,” said 2014 Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi, whose organization Bachpan Bachao Andolan works to protect vulnerable …

More Children Forced to Work as Coronavirus Batters India
4 years, 2 months ago

More Children Forced to Work as Coronavirus Batters India

News 18  

His hands caked with paint and dust, Aakash looks right at home working at an auto repair shop — except that he is a minor, one of millions forced into the Indian labour market. AFP this week accompanied Bachpan Bachao Andolan, a children’s rights group whose founder won the Nobel Peace Prize, as it conducted raids together with police in …

Covid-19 May Force Millions of Children Back into Slavery, Trafficking, Child Marriage: Kailash Satyarthi
4 years, 3 months ago

Covid-19 May Force Millions of Children Back into Slavery, Trafficking, Child Marriage: Kailash Satyarthi

News 18  

New Delhi: For four decades Nobel peace laureate Kailash Satyarthi rescued thousands of children from the scourge of slavery and trafficking but he fears all his efforts could reverse as the coronavirus pandemic forces children into labour. “The biggest threat is that millions of children may fall back into slavery, trafficking, child labour, child marriage,” said Satyarthi who was awarded …

India’s child mortality rate declined between 1990 and 2019: UN
4 years, 3 months ago

India’s child mortality rate declined between 1990 and 2019: UN

The Hindu  

India’s child mortality rate has declined substantially between 1990 and 2019 but the country, along with Nigeria, still accounted for almost a third of all under-five deaths last year, according to a new UN report which warned that COVID-19 pandemic threatens to undo decades of progress in eliminating preventable child deaths globally. The infant mortality rate in India declined from …

COVID-19 lockdown exposes gaps in India's child protection services and urgent need for collaborative, proactive approach
4 years, 4 months ago

COVID-19 lockdown exposes gaps in India's child protection services and urgent need for collaborative, proactive approach

Firstpost  

Veer sits on a wooden stool, in a noisy children’s shelter. The June UNICEF report on children and COVID-19 states, “decades of progress on children’s health, education and other priorities risk being wiped out.” The risks include an escalation of India’s vulnerable minors as the country unlocks amidst aggravating poverty and dwindling child protection services. “Child labour includes those children …

Covid-19 Impact: 21% Rural Households Ready to Send Children to Work after Lockdown
4 years, 4 months ago

Covid-19 Impact: 21% Rural Households Ready to Send Children to Work after Lockdown

News 18  

On March 24 when India went into a total lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, thousands of migrant labourers across the country lost their source of livelihood. Now that the lockdown is over and economic activities have sporadically started with several states across India diluting labour laws, children seem to be at the highest risk. The report, titled, "A …

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