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Research on accessibility and impact of Sponsorship (alternative care provision for children) in Karnataka under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2000 A collaborative study by EveryChild India & Karnataka State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (KSCPCR) was released on January 13th 2012 at Bangalore. The study was undertaken to understand the accessibility and impact of sponsorship (alternative care provision in Juvenile Justice Act 2000) on children in Karnataka. Currently in Karnataka the Department of Women and Child is implementing a scheme (since 2006) focusing on this provision to de-institutionalise children and enable them to access education, health care while living with their families.  |
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Positively Caring - Ensuring that positive choices can be made about the care of children affected by HIV - 2010 Agnes is a single mother living with HIV. She looks after her two sons and her sister’s three children. Looking after five children on her own, along with the added financial burden of living with HIV, has left the family very poor. A year ago, her 10-year-old son Mtenje (pictured on the front cover) dropped out of school to earn money herding cattle to support the family. EveryChild intervened and he is now back at school. Agnes was also encouraged by EveryChild to form a local network of people affected by HIV and she has become a passionate campaigner about HIV issues in her local community. |
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Quality Education for Dalit Children in Karnataka - India 2010 Throughout the world, it has been a common tenet that education is the principal force that has the absolute potential to bring about social change in society. In the state of Karnataka, the hostel scheme is the government’s attempt to bring social change to the Scheduled Castes (SCs) through greater access to education. The Scheduled Castes are composed of social groups in India who are recognized by the Indian Constitution to have been depressed. The untouchables, or Dalits, compose a large portion of the Scheduled Castes, and despite the fact that the Indian Constitution abolished the caste system in 1950 through Article 17, overwhelming prejudice and discrimination against this group is still widespread and unchecked. |
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Brief note on the AHRF studies on Arunthatiyar children in Tamil Nadu - India 2009-2010 All across the world there are many children who are living without parental care or in inadequate care. The figures are quite high and according to EveryChild (an international child rights charity), working in parts of Asia, Africa and parts of Former Soviet Union countries, it is almost more than 24 million children who grow up without parental care. These children’s survival is often threatened by greater risk of malnutrition, violence and exploitation; their future lost by missing out on school and their childhood. According to UNICEF Child protection Information Sheet (2006) there are 87.6 million child orphans in Asia constituting the highest number in the world. But in several countries including India, no data is systematically compiled about these children at the national or sub-national level. |
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A study exploring the discrimination and caste based violence aimed at Arunthatiyar children in schools in Coimbatore, Erode, Ramanathpuram, Shivagangai and Tuticorin districts in Tamil Nadu, India - India 2009-2010 Arunthatiyar children in Tamil Nadu All across the world there are many children who are living without parental care or in inadequate care. The figures are quite high and according to EveryChild (an international child rights charity), working in parts of Asia, Africa and parts of Former Soviet Union countries, it is almost more than 24 million children who grow up without parental care. These children’s survival is often threatened by greater risk of malnutrition, violence and exploitation; their future lost by missing out on school and their childhood. According to UNICEF Child protection Information Sheet (2006) there are 87.6 million child orphans in Asia constituting the highest number in the world. But in several countries including India, no data is systematically compiled about these children at the national or sub-national level. |
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A study to understand the occupational impact on the children of manual scavengers from Arunthatiyar community in Coimbatore, Erode, Ramanathapuram and Salem Districts in Tamil Nadu, India - India 2009-2010 About twenty percent of Indian population is constituted by Dalits. Caste based suppression and untouchability on this people is in force as an unwritten law for almost 2000 years. Only in India, one occupation for suppressed and another occupation for the higher strata have been assigned. In TamilNadu one of these inhuman occupations that are forced on Arunthathiyar community is manual scavenging. Though, there are several laws and schemes are to eradicate this, it is still continued in the caste based Hindu society. The cruelty of cleaning human excreta by another human being must be eradicated. We have arranged for this study on behalf of the Arunthatiyar Human Rights Forum (AHRF) in order to find out how the children of manual scavengers are affected by this occupation and to take subsequent steps to eradicate the menace. |
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A Study to understand the situation of Arunthathiyars girls employed under the “Sumangali Thittam” Scheme in Erode, Coimbatore, Tirupur, Viruthunagar & Dindigul districts of Tamil Nadu, India - India 2009-2010 All across the world there are many children who are living without parental care or in inadequate care. The figures are quite high and according to EveryChild (an international child rights charity), working in parts of Asia, Africa and parts of Former Soviet Union countries, it is almost more than 24 million children who grow up without parental care. These children’s survival is often threatened by greater risk of malnutrition, violence and exploitation; their future lost by missing out on school and their childhood. According to UNICEF Child protection Information Sheet (2006) there are 87.6 million child orphans in Asia constituting the highest number in the world. But in several countries including India, no data is systematically compiled about these children at the national or sub-national level. |
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A study to understand the working conditions and context of Arunthatiyar bonded child labourers in Sathyamangalam Block, Erode district-Tamil Nadu, India - India 2009-2010 The study on bonded labour children of Arunthatiyar Community in agricultural sector was entrusted to Centre for Social Research a few months ago. Since there was only limited literature available at Tamilnadu level and few research studies on the issue of Dalits among Dalits at the National level, this study becomes one of the pioneering attempts to give a bird's eye view of the current status of the traditionally inherited inhuman treatment of an innocent group of people, the Arunthatiyar Community. Though, bonded labour system is prevalent across the world, the Indian scenario is of a peculiar nature because it is based on the Indian caste system, which can be held solely responsible for its tradition. Caste system keeps the tradition alive. |
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Children without Parental Care in North Karnataka - A Research Report - India 2008 EveryChild is an international organisation that addresses issues of violence against separated children and children who are at risk of separation from their parents and families. EveryChild India Liaison Office has been helping programmes and partners based in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa. In the course of its work in the field, EvC came across the situation of children separated from their families due to orphanhood in Northern Karnataka. Since no such study has been undertaken on this issue within this region, EvC took the lead in undertaking this study. The study is aimed at being directly relevant to the work done by EvC along with its partners. It is done in order to help give strategic direction for its work in North Karnataka on children without parental care and also to act as a tool for advocacy and macro-level work in this area. |
