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Title
Child rights in India [electronic resource] : challenges and social action / Geeta Chopra.
ISBN
9788132224464 electronic book
8132224469 electronic book
9788132224457
Published
New Delhi : Springer, 2015.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 237 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-81-322-2446-4 doi
Call Number
HQ792.I4
Dewey Decimal Classification
342.5408/772
Summary
The book is a comprehensive compendium on child rights in India from a child development perspective. It discusses the challenges that Indian children face for survival, development, and education, especially if they are marginalized through disability, lack of care, and poverty. The major issues expounded by the author in relation to rights are infant and child survival, early child development, street and working children, children in conflict with law, children with disabilities, child trafficking, and child sexual abuse. The author goes further to delve into the causes, among which are high population, poverty, migration, illiteracy, poor legislation and deep-rooted social norms and behaviour. The book presents the existing policy and legal framework in India for each of these issues. The broad purpose of the book is to comprehensively discuss the roadblocks that the marginalized child in India faces, to understand the causes of these roadblocks, and to evaluate government and civil society action for children in India.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed September 1, 2015).
Available in Other Form
Print version: 9788132224457
Chapter 1. Introduction to Child Rights
Chapter 2. The Situation of the Child in India: Quest for Equity
Chapter 3. Early Childhood Care and Education: Right to Survival and Development
Chapter 4. Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances: Right to Protection and Participation
Chapter 5. The Working and the Street Children: Where is the Child?
Chapter 6. Children in Conflict with Law: The Child Offender
Chapter 7. Child Abuse in India: The Battered Child
Chapter 8. Child Trafficking: The Victimised Child
Chapter 9. Children with Disabilities: The Invisible Child.
