Children

UNICEF concerned over daily surge in new COVID 19 cases in India

Cattle feed for children in BJP ruled civic body school

Cattle feed was sent as food under the mid-day meal scheme to a school in Pune district, but due to timely action by school authorities and local activists, the children in the municipal school were not served the food.

Muslim boy beaten for drinking 'Hindu' water

Four girls beat poverty and make it to Hyderabad cricket team

Four girls from Telangana, including two tribals, have made it to the Hyderabad women’s cricket team.

Photograph of children bowing before Manipur CM goes viral,

CM happy proud of culture

A photograph posted by Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party on his Facebook account on February 25, at 9.56 pm has gone viral, with many trolling him.

Protesting farmers are violent maniacs: DAV Boys School Chennai

DAV Boys School of Chennai has termed the protesting farmers as “violent maniacs, who worked under external instigation”.

The Union Government is sending a three-member medical team to Eluru district of Andhra Pradesh, where over 300 children have taken ill due to some undiagnosed disease.

The Supreme Court has stayed the Bombay High Court’s Nagpur Bench order which said that a person groping a girl child’s breast without skin-to-skin contact cannot be held guilty of sexual assault under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act. The Bombay High Court’s verdict by Justice Pushpa Ganediwala has been challenged by Youth Bar Association of India.

More children in India and Nepal are likely to be forced into labour, according to a study GoodWeave International. The study Hidden and Vulnerable: The Impact of COVID 19 on Child, Forced and Bonded Labor was carried out by this non-profit organisation in the apparel, home textile and carpet supply chains in the two countries. A report based on the study has documented loss of income leading to indebtedness. The study noted that the situation has led to migration and closure of schools.

Over 152 million children are working as child labour across the world, with concentration mainly in Africa, Asian and the Pacific, according to International Labour Organisation.

ILO announced last week that though there was a 38 per cent drop in child labour cases in the world, the economic condition in the world, due to the COVID 19 pandemic is likely to increase child labour across the globe.