Childrens Rights & Future Thrust
The Paper first studies the status of children’s rights in India under the four groupings of Right to Survival, Right to Development, Right to Protection and Right to Participation. It then discusses related issues such as Rights versus Welfare approach, child rights campaign in India, Trade sanctions & child labour, and Partnership with Children. The […]
Emerging Issues in Juvenile Justice System in India
Strengthening Mandatory Statutory Mechanisms at the Pre-Adjudicatory Stage- A Paper Presented by Ms.Rita Panicker
Juvenile Delinquency: Society-Role, Perception and Response
A Paper Presented by Rita Panicker at the course on Juvenile Delinquency-Vertical Interaction Course for IPS Officers 2001-02. Organised by Law School, Banaras Hindu University
An Insight into Child Abuse
This Study was conducted in the year 2002, to understand the prevalence of child abuse, form, extent, causes, effect of abuse and to examine the services available to these children, responses of varied allied systems and the nature of interventions required. The study provides a starting point to re-examine and develop comprehensive strategies to work […]
Innovative Approaches in Addressing Child Labour-An Indian Experience
A Paper Presented by Rita Panicker
Child Rights & Childrens Participation
This paper draws upon the experience of Butterflies working for the empowerment of street & working children in Delhi, India. It is concerned with girls & boys who are surviving life in a particular geographic, socio-economic, political, cultural context. In recognition that children are social actors in their own right, whose views and perceptions need […]
Juvenile Justice System- A Situational Analysis of the Reality of Children
In providing a situational analysis of the reality of children who experience the Juvenile Justice System, this presentation focuses on the key questions- What system is outlined by the Juvenile Justice Act? Which children enter the Juvenile Justice System? Why do such children enter the system? How are children in the JJ System treated? This […]
Street Children and Drug Abuse
Paper presented by Rita Panicker at the Expert Forum on Demand Reduction in South and Southwest Asia, United Nations International Drug Control Programme, New Delhi, 6th-10th March, 1995
Reckoning with Child Labour-Present Day Strategies and Future Direction
A Paper presented by Rita Panicker at the seminar on “Stratgeies for the Elimination of Child Labour, South India”, organised by Human Rights Advocacy and Research Foundation at Madras, 22-23 July 1994
Towards Programming for Street Children
A Paper presented by Rita Panicker at the Seminar on “ Street Children in the Third World. On Theory and Practice, April 20-21, 1989, Amsterdam University, Amsterdam