child rights

Schools serve a greater purpose for adolescent girls beyond just education. They provide an escape from social norms. COVID-19 has taken this away from them.

More than a year into the pandemic, we need to protect children from harm and exploitation with greater urgency.

Exploring the implications of a national directive to restore children living in care homes to their families.

The pandemic has left the most vulnerable children invisible.

Evidence suggests that there are more effective ways to empower women.

COVID-19 has increased the risk of child labour. Here are five concrete steps that civil society can take to protect vulnerable children.

During the lockdown, there has been a fair amount of attention on adult migrant labour, but absolutely no debate, policy, or government directive on children.

We cannot let the advances we have made in accelerating education, delaying child marriage, addressing sexual and reproductive health needs, and building agency, be dissipated.

Orphanages in India have not received adequate support from the government regarding COVID-19 and the lockdown. This, along with severe resource constraints, puts the children they care for at greater risk.

Despite the fact that there are more than 3,70,000 children living in 9,500 institutions across the country, childcare institutions are often treated as a 'last-resort'. Here's how and why this needs to change.