Overview
- Focuses on child rights from a child development perspective and therefore goes beyond the legal viewpoint
- Analyses both micro- and macro-level factors related to child rights in India
- Situates the Indian situation in the context of global statutes and developmental indices
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Child sexual abuse in India
- Child trafficking in India
- Children with disabilities in India
- Constitutional framework on early childhood
- Education of children with disabilities
- Integrated Child Protection Scheme
- Juvenile Justice Act, India
- Juvenile justice system in India
- Major legislations and policies for children in India
- NGO efforts in enriching early childhood in India
- NGO interventions in child trafficking
- National Policy on Child Labour, India
- Orphaned children and adoption in India
- Policies for children in India
- Rajiv Gandhi Creche Scheme
- Status of children in India
- Street children and working children in India
- childhood studies
About this book
The book is a comprehensive compendium on child rights in India from a child development perspective. It discusses the challenges that Indian children face for survival, development and education, especially if they are marginalized through disability, lack of care, and poverty. The major issues expounded by the author in relation to rights are infant and child survival, early child development, street and working children, children in conflict with law, children with disabilities, child trafficking and child sexual abuse. The author goes further to delve into the causes, among which are high population, poverty, migration, illiteracy, poor legislation and deep-rooted social norms and behaviour. The book presents the existing policy and legal framework in India for each of these issues. The broad purpose of the book is to comprehensively discuss the roadblocks that the marginalized child in India faces, to understand the causes of these roadblocks and to evaluate government and civil society action for children in India.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Geeta Chopra, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Department of Human Development and Childhood Studies, Institute of Home Economics, University of Delhi. She has been teaching for almost 30 years. She is a keen researcher, Trainer and an involved academician. She has authored three guidebooks for community workers on Childhood Disability. She has also co-authored a book ‘Child Development: A Practical Manual’. She has been Principal Investigator for research projects which have received funding from government bodies and the World Bank. She is also guiding doctoral research. She is on various government bodies and academic institutes as an expert. Her major areas of interest include Child Rights, Childhood Disability, Early Childhood Care Education and Development.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child Rights in India
Book Subtitle: Challenges and Social Action
Authors: Geeta Chopra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2446-4
Publisher: Springer New Delhi
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer India 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-81-322-2445-7Published: 14 September 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-81-322-3409-8Published: 23 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-81-322-2446-4Published: 27 August 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 238
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 17 illustrations in colour
Topics: Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Human Rights, Early Childhood Education, Child and School Psychology