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Why in News Recently, a research study on congenital deformities in children born to women exposed to the 1984 gas leak in Bhopal was stopped from...
29 Nov 2019 Issues Related to Children
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World Children’s Day is celebrated on 20th November each year to promote international togetherness and awareness among children worldwide, and...
21 Nov 2019 Issues Related to Children
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Convergence of Agriculture and Nutrition
This article is based on "A jan aandolan for nutrition" which was published in The Indian Express on 18/11/2019. It talks about the...
18 Nov 2019 Issues Related to Children
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World Polio Day was established by Rotary International on 24th October to celebrate the birth of Jonas Salk, who developed a vaccine against...
25 Oct 2019 Issues Related to Children
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has released its ‘State of the World’s Children’ report for 2019. The report is the...
17 Oct 2019 Issues Related to Children
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Child’s Right to Affection of Both Parents
The Supreme Court recently in a case has ruled that ‘a child has the right to affection of both his parents’. The order is based on a...
11 Oct 2019 Issues Related to Children
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Online Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
A new research has placed India at the top of the list of the countries from where the maximum number of reports (38.8 lakh) related to suspected...
04 Oct 2019 Issues Related to Children
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On the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) raised alarms on major...
23 Sep 2019 Issues Related to Children
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Malnutrition and Disease Burden
A study led by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has given comprehensive estimates of disease burden due to child and maternal...
19 Sep 2019 Issues Related to Children
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Recently, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Thailand became the first four countries in the World Health Organization’s Southeast Asia region to...
07 Sep 2019 Issues Related to Children
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Scheme to Screen Children for Leprosy & TB
The Union government has rolled out a scheme for universal screening of children below 18 years for leprosy and tuberculosis (TB). It is going to...
28 Aug 2019 Issues Related to Children
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India’s Child well-being Index Report
According to the recently released Child’s Well-Being Index Report, “Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh & Puducherry topped the...
28 Aug 2019 Issues Related to Children
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Children Abandoning Education in Mica Mining Districts
The survey on ‘education & well-being of children in mica mining areas of Jharkhand and Bihar’ has revealed that over 5,000 children,...
26 Aug 2019 Issues Related to Children
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Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill, 2019 and related concerns
The article is based on the recent Amendments in the POCSO Act, 2012 and the concerns related to the newly introduced death penalty in the law as...
12 Aug 2019 Issues Related to Children
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The World Breastfeeding Week (WBW) has been observed from 1st to 7th August 2019. The Food and Nutrition Board, Ministry of Women and Child...
09 Aug 2019 Issues Related to Children
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The Big picture - War against Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking has emerged as a significant problem all across the world. The World Day against Trafficking in Persons is observed every year on...
08 Aug 2019 Issues Related to Children
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Incidence of Cancer in Children
A recent study conducted by Lancet pointed out that 82% of cancer cases among children comes from poorer countries. According to the report,...
31 Jul 2019 Issues Related to Children
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Special Courts for POCSO Cases
The Supreme Court has directed the Centre to set up special courts to deal exclusively with Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO)...
26 Jul 2019 Issues Related to Children
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Child Labour in Film and Television Industry
The government is working to ensure “strict compliance” of norms on working conditions for children by film and television industry, as...
19 Jul 2019 Issues Related to Children
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The Central government and the Supreme Court, both have taken firm steps to tackle the rising number of sexual offences against children. The Union...
18 Jul 2019 Issues Related to Children
