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Oxford medical student highlights holistic education as key to protecting
Updated : 2 months, 1 week ago IST
At the 61st session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Petrina Lander, a medical student at the University of Oxford, in her oral statement, while addressing the annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child, called for stronger global support for holistic education sys
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CPM MP John Brittas seeks EAM Jaishankar's intervention during German Chan
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
John Brittas, CPI(M) MP from Kerala, has written a letter to the Union Minister of External Affairs, S. Jaishankar, urging urgent high-level diplomatic intervention during the forthcoming visit of the German Chancellor to secure the repatriation of Baby Ariha Shah, an Indian citizen who h
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Pak Senate panel approves bill for public hanging of rapists despite oppos
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The Senate Standing Committee on Interior, led by Senator Mohsin Aziz, deliberated on these changes to remove section D and introduce public hangings as a punishment for rapists, following the high-profile gang-rape incident on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway in September 2020.
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Not justified to snatch the "rights of martyrs' children" for relatives: G
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
"The present rules have been formulated on the basis of past experience. How can we justify giving job to any other relative by trampling upon the rights of the children of the martyr? What will happen to the children of the martyr when they grow up? Is it appropriate to trample upon thei
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Indian students advocate for ecological rights, seek edits in United Natio
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Amid rising environmental problems, over 300 children from India presented their recommendations on the draft of UN General Comment 26 (GC 26) to Mikiko Otani, the United Nations Chair of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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13 year-old Sarthak Nehete, acted as the Chief Airport Officer on World Ch
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 23 (ANI/SRV): To give wings to the imaginations of children, on World Children's Day, November 20, which coincides with the anniversary of the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC), a special celebration was done at Ahmedabad airport.
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Suicide bombing squads and child soldiers define Taliban's Afghanistan rul
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], February 3 (ANI): Taliban government in Afghanistan, which wishes to get international donor agencies to help its struggling economy, has a lot to answer to the world on its continued pursuance of suicide bombing squads and child soldiers, according to a report.
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Afghans fear Taliban may forcibly recruit children in terror groups
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], September 20 (ANI): Taliban's return to power raised fears among Afghans that they will forcibly recruit youngsters to groom them for terror activities.
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India calls for galvanized international cooperation to secure cyberspace
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New York (US), Nov 22 (ANI): Highlighting that exposure to the digital environment is reshaping childhood by creating both opportunities and unprecedented risks, India at United Nations on Thursday called for "galvanized international cooperation'' to safeguard children from inappropriate co
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Odisha govt collaborates with UNICEF to create awareness about child right
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Nov 20 (ANI): Government of Odisha collaborated with United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), along with Odisha Alliance Child Rights (OACR) in Bhubaneswar on W
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'Half of children globally don't know about Convention on the Rights of th
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Nov 19 (ANI): Half of the children globally do not know about the Convention on the Rights of the Child, despite being the most widely ratified human rights treaty in the world, according to a report by NGO Educo.
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1 in 5 boys married off before turning 15: UNICEF
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New York [USA], Jun 8 (ANI): The UNICEF has, after its first-ever in-depth analysis of child grooms, stated that an estimated 115 million boys and men around the world were married as children, out of which 1 in 5 children (23 million) was married off before attaining the age of 15.
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