Child Rights and You (CRY) invites you to support us in ensuring basic rights to every Indian Child, by signing this petition:India's children are not doing well. They do not have access to quality health care or education, and as for girls even their right to survival is under threat. CRY is concerned that the national mission of expanding opportunities for children through State action, appears to have been de-prioritised. Promoting and protecting human rights of children is a government obligation, taken on when the Constitution was adopted and reiterated to the international community, when it signed the International Convention on the Rights of the Child.
However, over the past decade and more, there is an increased emphasis on market-oriented responses to dealing with children's issues and a dilution in the role of the Indian State as the principal guardian of the children.Children form 40% of our country's population, and yet they are treated as non entities - their being is rarely acknowledged. This is even more so politically - as they do not have a say in determining who forms government or frames policies on their behalf. And hence their concerns are invisible - rarely understood in their totality. Close to three decades of experience have shown CRY that providing relief is a short-term exercise and that sustainable change can be brought about only by addressing the structural and systemic root causes of poverty and social exclusion. CRY - Child Rights and You seeks your support to raise public awareness on the state of children in India and to demand the following non-negotiables from the government:Child Rights Charter
Ensure a universal definition of "child" to include all persons under the age of 18.
Increase government expenditure on children. Specifically increase expenditure on education to 10% and health to 5% of GDP.
All children age 6-18 years, without discrimination, should be in formal, full-time schools that provide quality education. All children below 6 years should be in anganwadis. The government should ensure that all children complete schooling.
Complete prohibition on all forms of child labour across sectors including agriculture.
Revision of the National Policy for Children (1974) to make it more comprehensive and in line with the Constitution and the United Nations Convention of Child Rights.
Redraft the Free and Compulsory Education Bill to remove sanctions on parents. Concerned governments to face penalty for failure to provide free, compulsory education to all.
Formulate and implement a comprehensive rights-based policy on food security for all with extensive legal safeguards, in order that no child goes to bed hungry and no child is born underweight and stay undernourished.
Coverage of the Public Distribution System is expanded to include all poor and socially excluded families.
Immediate provision of nutritious mid-day meals in all primary schools and extension of this scheme to include out-of-school children. Make available Integrated Child Development Services to all children under the age of six years, as per the Supreme Court order of November 2001.
ABOUT CRY:
CRY is a leading advocate of Child Rights in India. We work to ensure basic rights of underprivileged children in India to survival, development, protection and participation. CRY effects grassroots movements of change that empower deprived communities to take responsibility for their lives and the future of their children. With the ultimate goal -- to build a peoples’ movement for the rights of India’s children
CRY today supports 185 development initiatives in 18 key states across India.
SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR,PLS SIGN THE PETITION FOR CHILD RIGHT,BY CLICKING ON THE LINK
Source :http://cause.oneindia.in/44/9/petitiondetails.html
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