Tagged Under: Child Rights

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  Policy Matters, Vartanama Nov '21

  Trans inclusion in schools: A step forward and several backwards

  By Debjyoti Ghosh

  Debjyoti Ghosh on the politics around withdrawing the draft NCERT manual on transgender children’s inclusion in schools

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  Poetry Nov '20

  Unreliable witness

  By Anureet Watta

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  Insight, Policy Matters Aug '20

  Which way home for transgender minors?

  By Namrata

  Namrata on policy and legal failures to address the concerns of transgender minors in need of crisis shelter – with inputs from Madhuja Nandi and Pawan Dhall

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  Policy Matters Jun '20

  For those in lockdown – with or without coronavirus

  By Santa Khurai

  Santa Khurai proposes continued online education for trans students who may be unable to attend school or college even when the lockdown is lifted

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  Poetry Mar '20

  A child’s plea

  By Ananya Kar

  The child in this poem is each one of us. Do we have the answers to this child’s plea?

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  Insight, Thought for Food Feb '20

  Hope makes a good breakfast. Sip N Bite does it better

  By Duncan Rice

  Duncan Rice is bowled over by the breakfast and motivation served up at café Sip N Bite

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  Advice - Rights and Laws Sep '19

  Legal facts on transmitting, viewing and reporting online child pornography

  By Kaushik Gupta

  Kaushik Gupta explains the law on online child pornography

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  Insight Feb '19

  What if it’s neither?

  By Koyel Khan

  Koyel Khan sums up the report of an historic meet on intersex issues in India

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  QA - Child Sexual Abuse Feb '19

  When the law protects but justice heals

  By RAHI Foundation

  A purely legal response to incest and child sexual abuse can be inadequate says RAHI Foundation

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  QA - Child Sexual Abuse Dec '18

  On recovering from effects of incest and child sexual abuse

  By RAHI Foundation

  RAHI Foundation continues to answer your queries on incest and child sexual abuse

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  QA - Child Sexual Abuse Oct '18

  Opening up to facts about incest and child sexual abuse

  By RAHI Foundation

  RAHI Foundation on prevention, age and sexuality nuances of incest / child sexual abuse

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  QA - Child Sexual Abuse Aug '18

  Why children don’t talk about their experience of sexual abuse

  By RAHI Foundation

  RAHI Foundation is back with more issues to discuss around incest and child sexual abuse

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  People, Qatha Jun '18

  Qatha: On the uses of ‘sil-batta’ to make you straight & more queer tales (part 1)

  By Pawan Dhall, Soma Roy Karmakar

  'Varta' brings you the next series of articles under the ‘Queer Kolkata Oral History Project’

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  QA - Child Sexual Abuse Jun '18

  Talking about incest and child sexual abuse

  By RAHI Foundation

  In a new bi-monthly column RAHI Foundation discusses a range of issues around child sexual abuse

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  Insight May '18

  To school, with fear . . . of confessions!

  By Jia Mata, Sudha Jha, Nikita Kabra

  Jia Mata, Nikita Kabra and Sudha Jha report on the recent homophobic violation of child rights in the Kamala Girls' High School incident involving the school's headmistress and the West...

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  Vartanama Apr '18

  When will the tide turn?

  By Pawan Dhall

  Both photographs in this article were clicked during an event organized on April 18, 2018 by Maitree, a pioneering women’s rights network in West Bengal