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Issues in IndiaChild Rights & Women Rights
By Gitanjali BoraNikhita Bhatia
6 BAMC
Presented to Suja Maam
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Basic Child Rights
• Right to Survival – to life, health, nutrition, name, nationality
• Right to Development– to education, care, leisure, recreation, cultural activities
• Right to Protection– from exploitation, abuse, neglect
• Right to Participation– to expression, information, thought, religion
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But are the Children Getting these Rights?
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But are the Children Getting these Rights?
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But are the Children Getting these Rights?
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Survival?
• Out of every 1000 children born in India, 31 die before they are one year old.
• Girls are particularly neglected and many die early. And many, many girl babies are killed even before they are born.
• As recorded by UNICEF, in 1984 in Bombay out of the 8,000 abortions that took place, 7,999 of them were girls.
• Some were fed dry, un-hulled rice that punctured their windpipes, or were made to swallow poisonous powdered fertilizer.
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Age group VS Gender of India’s Children
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Development?
• 40 million children in India work as child labourers, never going to school and having no chance do develop
• Children in India who do get a chance to go to school go to government-run schools which are often dirty, where they are not taught well, where don’t have books or toys or learning aids, and where they are not treated with respect.
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Protection?
• It is estimated that 150 million girls and 73 million boys under 18 have been subjected to forced sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual violence in 2007.
• In 2002 there were 53,000 reported cases of child homicide.
• According to the 2001 census there are 1.5 million girls, in India, under the age of 15 already married.
• An estimated 1,000 to 1,500 Indian children are smuggled out of the country every year to Saudi Arabia for begging during the Hajj.
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Participation?
• All children have the right to say what they think when adults are making decisions about them. Adults must listen and think about what children are saying.
• Children have the right to get information from books, TV, radio and newspapers.
• Children have the right to think and believe what they want, practice their religion, and parents and other adults should guide them.
• Children have a right to meet together, and to join groups and organizations, as long as these do not harm them or others.
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Issues of Women Rights in INDIA
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Our first prime minister ,Jawaharl
al Nehru said , “you can tell the
condition of nation by looking at the
status of its
women “
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Condition of women in India
Our country is on high roads of success , but still for a women her life is a battle for survival and dignity from her birth to death
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Problems faced
Female abortion RapeDowry Restriction on widow remarriage Gender bias Neglect during childhood Child marriage Sati
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Female Abortion
While goddess are welcomed with open arms, our doors are shut tight for girl child.
It’s a very common scenario in almost all villages.
It has become tradition for some families to have male children only.
Our sex ratio is : 923 females per 1000 males.
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Dowry
Dowry is defined as the property , which a man receives from his wife or her family at the time of marriage. It is regulated by factors like :
Boy’s service and salary Economic statusEducational qualification etc.,
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Child Marriage
Getting married before attaining full mental and physical maturity.
In rural area 70%of girls are married before they are 18
And nearly 56% of married girls bear children before they are 19 .
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SOME RIGHTS PROVIDED TO WOMEN
• Voting right.• Education right.• Property right.• Safety right.• Right to express.
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• Women cannot be called to the police station for interrogation under Section 160 of the Criminal Procedure Code.
• According to a Supreme Court ruling, a woman cannot be arrested after sunset and before sunrise.
• The police cannot refuse to register an FIR even if a considerable period of time has elapsed since the incident of rape or molestation took place.
• Under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, a woman who has been raped can record her statement before the district magistrate when the case is under trial, and no one else needs to be present
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Lets make INDIA a better place to live in !!Thank you