-The Hindu Child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi urges President to set up National Children’s Tribunal for time-bound disposal of cases of crimes against kids Nobel laureate and child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi reached Delhi after completing his 11,000-km-long Bharat yatra across 22 States, from Kashmir to Kanyaumari, against child sexual abuse. Speaking to Soumya Pillai, Mr. Satyarthi, said his yatra was aimed at providing a platform to several children, youth and their families...
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Global Hunger Index: More & more Indian children weigh too little for their height -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express Global study ranks India 100th of 119 counties, worse than Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. India ranks a low 100th out of 119 countries on the Global Hunger Index (GHI) released Thursday. On the GHI severity scale, India is at the high end of the “serious” category, owing mainly to the fact that one in every five children under age 5 is “wasted” (low weight for height). With 21% of...
More »Supreme Court's under-18 ruling triggers fresh debate on teen sexuality -Swati Mathur
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court's ruling that sex between a man and his wife under 18 years of age would be rape has triggered a fresh debate on how the government and courts will deal with social realities like consensual sex between adolescents. Gender rights activists welcomed the judgment saying it may reduce instances of child marriages, but said the decision has come as a blow to individual's...
More »'A rapist is a rapist' even if husband
-PTI The Supreme Court today referred to the European Commission of Human Rights' observation on sexual assault by relatives that "a rapist remains a rapist regardless of his relationship with the victim", while criminalising sexual intercourse with a wife below 18 years. A bench of Justices Madan B. Lokur and Deepak Gupta, however, made it clear that it was not dealing with the question of marital rape of women above the age...
More »By 2022, more obese kids than malnourished ones -Malathy Iyer
-The Times of India MUMBAI: In another five years, the number of obese children in the world will outnumber the malnourished ones. A report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Imperial College London, published in medical journal 'The Lancet', stated on Wednesday that obesity rates among the world's children and adolescents increased from less than 1% in 1975 to nearly 6% in girls and nearly 8% in boys in 2016. India, however,...
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