Child Rights in India

Challenges and Social Action

Geeta Chopra (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

238 Seiten

2016 | Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2015 ed.
Springer, India, Private Ltd (Verlag)
978-81-322-3409-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Chapter 1. Introduction to Child Rights.- Chapter 2. The Situation of the Child in India: Quest for Equity.- Chapter 3. Early Childhood Care and Education: Right to Survival and Development.- Chapter 4. Children in Especially Difficult Circumstances: Right to Protection and Participation.- Chapter 5. The Working and the Street Children: Where is the Child?.- Chapter 6. Children in Conflict with Law: The Child Offender.- Chapter 7. Child Abuse in India: The Battered Child.- Chapter 8. Child Trafficking: The Victimised Child.- Chapter 9. Children with Disabilities: The Invisible Child.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	17 Illustrations, color; 3 Illustrations, black and white; XXIII, 238 p. 20 illus., 17 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	New Delhi
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte	Children with disabilities in India • Child sexual abuse in India • Child trafficking 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 • National Policy on Child Labour, India • NGO efforts in enriching early childhood in India • NGO interventions in child trafficking • 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
ISBN-10	81-322-3409-X / 813223409X
ISBN-13	978-81-322-3409-8 / 9788132234098
Zustand	Neuware