Examples of our work
Child Protection In India
PATNA, India, November 4, 2009 – To eradicate child labour and ensure rehabilitation of rescued children, the Bihar State Government has released a ’State Plan of Action for Child Protection, Rescue and Rehabilitation’.
Bihar launches an Action Plan for Child Protection
PATNA, India, November 4, 2009 – To eradicate child labour and ensure rehabilitation of rescued children, the Bihar State Government has released a ’State Plan of Action for Child Protection, Rescue and Rehabilitation’.
Former Child Labourer Says No to Child Marriage
PATNA, India, November 4, 2009 – To eradicate child labour and ensure rehabilitation of rescued children, the Bihar State Government has released a ’State Plan of Action for Child Protection, Rescue and Rehabilitation’.
Girl Power: Tea Garden Adolescent Clubs Grow Female Leaders
Sulekha is a leader of the plantation’s 56-member Adolescent Girls’ Club, which she says has given her a new found confidence.
CRC@20 - Right to Protection
PATNA, India, November 4, 2009 – To eradicate child labour and ensure rehabilitation of rescued children, the Bihar State Government has released a ’State Plan of Action for Child Protection, Rescue and Rehabilitation’.
Is Corporal Punishment Really Needed?
Child radio reporters on a panel discussion on ‘Shishu Tirtho’ programme voiced their concerns on corporal punishment and sought alternatives from teachers to the practice of corporal punishment.
Important Documents Related to Corporal Punishment
These downloadable reports give you an overview to legal, ethical and social issues related to Corporal Punishment in India
All You Want to Know About Corporal Punishment
Why should it matter to us. Why is challenging Corporal Punishment very important. This report answers all your queries related to Corporal Punishment in India.
Promoting Positive Discipline in Schools of Assam
Assam announces its intention of banning corporal punishment in all its schools.
Media Voices that Highlighted Issue of Corporal Punishment
This downloadable report compiles a cross-section of effective media stories angles which highlight the issue of corporal punishment with sensitivity and from a child-rights perspective.
Why is challenging all corporal punishment so important?
We need to think of challenging corporal punishment not just as a child protection issue, although it is sadly true that corporal punishment kills and maims countless thousands of children.
The Right to Protection and Dignity – End Corporal Punishment
Enactment of the new legislation will be the first step towards the prohibition of corporal punishment in schools and other educational institutions.
World Day Against Child Labour Marks the Need to Give Girls a chance -End Child Labour
PATNA, India, November 4, 2009 – To eradicate child labour and ensure rehabilitation of rescued children, the Bihar State Government has released a ’State Plan of Action for Child Protection, Rescue and Rehabilitation’.
Joint Statement by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, ILO and UNICEF
India continues to have the world’s largest number of child labourers with many trafficked into labour.
International Day Against Child labour 2009 — Child Rights
One man’s conviction and his community’s support is helping children go to school instead of work in rural India
International Day Against Child labour 2009 — Child Rights
Bridge school centres and girls collectives are reshaping the future of a generation in rural Andhra Pradesh
Street Smart to Life Smart: Adolescents in Guwahati learn to cope with life’s challenges
Practise first and then ask others to follow. This seems to be the mantra which is moving hundreds of under-privileged adolescents in Guwahati, to usher a change in their life and that of their peers and community.
UN partnership with Andhra Legislative Assembly triggers quick action
The support of political leadership to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is a must, but how to make it happen is a question high on everyone's agenda. Andhra Pradesh (AP) – a state in southern India - is showing the way.
Deepashikha programme attempts to break the cycle of oppression
Mukta has survived a double blow of child marriage and desertion at such a tender age. Living at present with her parents, Mukta is perhaps the living testimony of a disturbing reality that prevails in many rural areas of India. Two out of every ten girls
Saluting two faces of women’s empowerment
Thirty three years old Manjuma Iqbal and 65 year old Duiji Amma are women of courage, grit and determination. Not one to be daunted by circumstances these two women from Uttar Pradesh have faced danger and challenge bravely to come out trumps.
A Special experience for children of Dornapal transit camp
The Born Free team, comprising teenagers who have themselves faced a tough childhood, introduced these children to sculpture, photography, music and dance.
UNICEF- IKEA partnership: restoring lost childhoods in Uttar Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh
PATNA, India, November 4, 2009 – To eradicate child labour and ensure rehabilitation of rescued children, the Bihar State Government has released a ’State Plan of Action for Child Protection, Rescue and Rehabilitation’.
Restoring childhoods to child labourers in Tamil Nadu
These young hands should have held pencils. Instead they mixed chemicals in matchbox factories, handled worms in silk farms, or learnt to juggle several glasses together while serving customers in tea shops.
In Orissa children report on children's issues
Child participation story from Orissa
Child Labour Elimination - Karnataka
UNICEF and four community based NGOs collaborate with the Department of Labour in Karnataka to eliminate child labour in the local silk industry
Trafficking - Andhra Pradesh
UNICEF in collaboration with the district administration and a local NGO has set up a database of trafficking routes, traffickers, and trafficked minors and women in order to help make effective interventions
