Volume : 6, Issue : 1, January - 2017

United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and Indian Children

Dr. Subhash

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">Child rights are specialized human rights that apply to all human beings below the age of 18. Universally child rights are defined by the </span><a href="http://www.childlineindia.org.in/United-Nations.htm" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;&#10;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">United Nations</span></b></a><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;"> and </span><a href="http://www.childlineindia.org.in/United-Nations-Convention-on-the-Rights-of-the-Child.htm" style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:&#10;200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"> </span></a><span style="text-align: justify; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif;">According to the UNCRC Child Rights are minimum entitlements and freedoms that should be afforded to all persons below the age of 18 regardless of race, colour, gender, language, religion, opinions, origins, wealth, birth status or ability and therefore apply to all people everywhere. This present paper is an attempt to explore and examine the situation of Child Rights related education, health and employment in India. The major objective of the paper is to highlight the gap between the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and India&rsquo;s performance to protect these rights. To fulfill the objective, a deep study of the available literature was done. Secondary sources of data like UNCRC, ILO reports, UNICEF reports, Child Labour Act 1986, Indian Govt. reports on education and health, books, Journals, Newspapers were consulted to gather latest information about the concerned problem. Paper concludes that while India is doing better in protecting some child rights still it is far behind of the European and many Asian Nations. For a long time India has not been doing well to provide education to all, to eradicate child labour,&nbsp; to provide safe drinking water and health facilities. Many reports of the committees on the UNCRC highlight that India is very rich in making policies and programmes to protect child rights but is very poor in its action-plan and implementation.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>