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Child
Protection in India
Protecting children from all forms of violence, abuse, and exploitation in different
settings, including family, community and wider society is essential to ensure that
they are given all the rights due to them
Protecting
children from all forms of violence, abuse, and exploitation is integral to the
holistic development of children, as it enables them to become active
participants in their own development and the development of the Nation.
A
child who sells flowers or magazines at a traffic light every day is not just
another salesperson, but someone who is deprived of a normal and secured
family life, and denied his or her basic rights of nutrition, health,
education, and development.
Unfortunately,
it is common to see children in vulnerable and difficult situations. At an age where
they should be in school and learning, children are married off; engaged in
work– in farms, households, restaurants, and in industries; trafficked for
labour and sexual exploitation; and exposed to abuse and violence.
According
to the Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), around 170
million or 40 percent of all children in India are either vulnerable to
or experiencing difficult circumstances, such as violence at home, separation
from family and street life (Integrated Child Protection Scheme– ICPS). If we
look at sexual abuse, a study conducted by MWCD in 2007 shows that more than 53
percent all respondents reported to have faced one or more forms of sexual abuse.
