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Govt issues guidelines for Mission Vatsalya scheme
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 7 (ANI): The Ministry of Women and Child Development is implementing a centrally-sponsored scheme "Mission Vatsalya" erstwhile Child Protection Services (CPS) scheme, since 2009-10 for the welfare and rehabilitation of children.
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EU provides additional Euro 40 million for polio vaccines, child protectio
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New York [US], July 4 (ANI): The European Union contributed an additional Euro 25 million for polio vaccines and Euro 15 million for child protection in Afghanistan.
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Pakistan: Families disowning daughters in Punjab province due to severe fi
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Punjab [Pakistan], May 1 (ANI): Child Protection Bureau highlights the harrowing trend in Pakistan's Punjab province where the families, because of the severe financial crisis, disown their daughters and leave them at the doorsteps of the Bureau for want of a son.
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Sexual abuses against children surging in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 30 (ANI): Incidents of sexual abuse against children are surging in Pakistan with the child protection organisation Sahil stating that the abuse has increased by two children per day in comparison with last year's January-June report, local media said.
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Apple's child protection features get delayed after privacy outcry
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 4 (ANI): Apple's child protection features, which the company had announced last month, has now been delayed by the tech giant owing to criticism that the changes could diminish user privacy.
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Gold medallist Haile Gebrselassie joins Sunfeast India Move As One Movemen
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 28 (ANI): The Sunfeast India Move As One (erstwhile Sunfeast India Run as One) in its second edition this year will strive towards supporting children in distress affected by the pandemic with a focus on - education including academic support, career guidance and skil
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Worrying trend of more children being recruited for terrorism-related acti
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 28 (ANI): Noting that the world is witnessing a dangerous and worrying trend of an increase in the number of children being recruited and involved in terrorism-related activities, Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla on Monday said there is need for a more coord
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Naveen Patnaik launches Ashirbad scheme for COVID orphans
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], June 20 (ANI): Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday launched "Ashirbad", a scheme for the education, health and maintenance of COVID orphans.
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Telangana: COVID orphans to get mobile phones uploaded with emergency numb
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 12 (ANI): With an aim to ensure safety of children who lost their parents to COVID-19, the Department of Women Development and Child Welfare has decided to give them mobile phones containing all the necessary numbers including that of the District Child Pr
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LS passes Juvenile Justice Amendment Bill
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 25 (ANI): Lok Sabha on Wednesday passed a bill that seeks to strengthen child protection at the district level by empowering district magistrates to effectively coordinate and monitor the functions of various agencies responsible for the implementation of the provis
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Pakistani cleric sentenced to death for raping minor in Peshawar
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 14 (ANI): A Pakistani court has sentenced a cleric to death for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl in Peshawar city two years ago.
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National Girl Child Day: Playing CM's part, 24-year-old Uttarakhand girl t
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], January 24 (ANI): On National Girl Child Day, 24-year-old Srishti Goswami, a resident of Daulatpur village in Haridwar district, will review schemes run by various departments as she has been designated as the state Chief Minister at the Uttarakhand Bal Vidhan
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