abhishreshthaa
Abhijeet S
Child rights maybe broadly classified as the rights of all children to:
• Survival
• Development
• Protection, and
• Participation
Children are innocent, trusting and full of hope. Their childhood should be joyful and loving. Their lives should mature gradually, as they gain new experiences. But for many children, the reality of childhood is altogether different.
Right through history, children have been abused and exploited. They suffer from hunger and homelessness, work in harmful conditions, high infant mortality, deficient health care and limited opportunities for basic education, a child need not live such a life. Childhood can and must be preserved. Children have the right to survive, develop, be protected and participate in decisions that impact their lives.
We need to focus on the 4 basic rights of children. In 1992, India ratified the United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child. The Charter of Child Rights is built on the principle that "ALL children are born with fundamental freedoms and ALL human beings have some inherent rights".
The Charter confers the following basic rights on all children across the world:
• the right to survival - to life, health, nutrition, name and nationality
• the right to development - to education, care, leisure, recreation
• the right to protection - from exploitation, abuse, neglect
• the right to participation - to expression, information, thought and religion
In truth, millions of India's children are denied even the most basic rights of survival and protection. The statistics are grim. What is worse is that very little is known of what it means to be part of such horrific numbers The task before society is huge and people at CRY believe that every member of our society should take responsibility for their plight and make a big difference to the children of our nation.
• Survival
• Development
• Protection, and
• Participation
Children are innocent, trusting and full of hope. Their childhood should be joyful and loving. Their lives should mature gradually, as they gain new experiences. But for many children, the reality of childhood is altogether different.
Right through history, children have been abused and exploited. They suffer from hunger and homelessness, work in harmful conditions, high infant mortality, deficient health care and limited opportunities for basic education, a child need not live such a life. Childhood can and must be preserved. Children have the right to survive, develop, be protected and participate in decisions that impact their lives.
We need to focus on the 4 basic rights of children. In 1992, India ratified the United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child. The Charter of Child Rights is built on the principle that "ALL children are born with fundamental freedoms and ALL human beings have some inherent rights".
The Charter confers the following basic rights on all children across the world:
• the right to survival - to life, health, nutrition, name and nationality
• the right to development - to education, care, leisure, recreation
• the right to protection - from exploitation, abuse, neglect
• the right to participation - to expression, information, thought and religion
In truth, millions of India's children are denied even the most basic rights of survival and protection. The statistics are grim. What is worse is that very little is known of what it means to be part of such horrific numbers The task before society is huge and people at CRY believe that every member of our society should take responsibility for their plight and make a big difference to the children of our nation.