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World Day against Child Labour: India's shelter homes should do more to impart job-oriented skills to children
Pallavirebbapragada •The 2016 survey conducted jointly by the Women and Child Development Department and AIIMS estimated that Delhi’s streets are home to 70,000 addicts.
In Kerala's Malappuram, underage girls brainwashed into marriage with promises of mobile phones, freedom to step out
Chandhini_r_kannan •Child marriage survivors in Kerala's Malappuram district say they agreed for early marriages to get access to mobile phones and the freedom to go out of the house
Jharkhand's Khunti village rife with tales of human trafficking, but threats keeps villagers from approaching police
Kelly Kisalaya •Villagers in Jharkhand's Khunti district don't lodge police complaints as human traffickers threaten the safety of their families. As a result, very few cases reach the state's anti-human trafficking cell.
Activists accuse Latur Police, child welfare panel of inaction against maulavi accused of sexually exploiting minors
Varsha Torgalkar •Questions are being raised about why authorities are not taking action against the maulavi of a madrasa in Maharashtra's Latur district who is accused of sexually exploiting minor girls at the school. Social activists have questioned the inaction despite the complaints they registered with both the district Child Welfare Committee (CWC) and the Latur Police.
34 children trafficked to Punjab from Jharkhand, Bihar; admitted to illegal school in Ludhiana, say police officials
•The children, mostly tribals, and some were allegedly converted to Christianity in Ludhiana, after being lodged in a missionary-run child shelter home.
Gurugram shelter home given notice by child welfare committee over illegal stay of 16 Italian students
•The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) of Gurugram district served a notice on a shelter home today for allegedly allowing 16 overseas students to stay there without prior permission of the administration.
Child trafficking racket busted in Jharkhand: 87 boys rescued from Bokaro railway station, 21 from Ranchi
•Two coordinated raids rescued 108 children from railway stations in Jharkhand, the adults accompanying them claimed to be taking the children to madrassa in Telangana
Baby-selling racket busted in Ranchi: Three Missionaries of Charity staffers arrested for selling toddler
•Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested three staffs from a shelter home in Ranchi for selling a baby born to an inmate
International Missing Children's Day 2018: State, communities must address factors that drive trafficking
Soha Moitra •While deterrence through criminal action is important, it is equally vital to address the underlying conditions which drive the supply and demand for trafficked children.
DCW rescues five more minor girls kept in 'prison-like' ashram by absconding godman Virendra Dev Dixit
Ians •After rescuing 41 minor girls from an ashram of molestation-accused 'godman' Baba Virendra Dev Dixit, the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Saturday rescued five more minor girls, kept in "prison-like" confinement by the absconding 'Baba' from another ashram.