India and Children and young people
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New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- The BLDS children & young people collection
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- Search for the latest children & young people-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Children in the Chhattisgarh conflict
- Child Rights Information Network, 2008
- This report updates information on the use of children by all parties to the conflict in India’s Chhattisgarh state, the harm they have suffered, and the adverse impact of the conflict on children’s education. The report i...
- What are the prospects for disabled young people in India?
- Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty, 2008
- While attention is being focused on young people’s potential for social transformation, some of them – such as those with disabilities – remain alienated from mainstream debates on development. Little is known ...
- A policy guide to ending girl child marriage
- International Center for Research on Women, USA, 2007
- Girls who marry as children (younger than 18 years of age) are often more susceptible to the health risks associated with early sexual initiation and childbearing, including HIV and obstetric fistula. Lacking status and power, these g...
- Tackling child malnourishment in India: an analysis of inter-regional disparities
- K. R. G. Nair / Right to Food Campaign, New Delhi, 2007
- In spite of recent economic growth, India maintains one of the highest proportions of undernourished children in the world, partly owing to the highly uneven nature of its development. This paper provides a detailed analysis of inter-...
- The impacts of trade reform's costs on schooling, poverty and work decisions of children
- E.V. Edmonds; N. Pavcnik; P. Topalova / International Monetary Fund, 2008
- This paper addresses the question about the influence of trade policy on schooling and child labor decisions in low income countries in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. In the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic incre...
- Positive and negative roles of migration for the survival prospects of children in Rajasthan
- M. Unnithan-Kumar; K. McNay; A. Castaldo / Sussex Centre for Migration Research, 2008
- Migration is an increasing feature which defines the lives of the rural and urban poor in India, however few studies have considered its effects on the health of migrants and their families. This paper examines the high levels of infa...
- Children's participation in transport planning and policy: Ghana, South Africa and India
- M. Mashiri; S. Dube; D. Buiten / Commonwealth Youth and Development, 2007
- Transport plays a significant role in the lives of children and young people, facilitating or constraining their ability to discharge their domestic responsibilities, providing opportunities for earning an income, supporting or inhibi...
- Women’s empowerment, domestic violence and maternal nutritional status
- K. Sethuraman* / World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), 2008
- Moderate under nutrition continues to affect 46 per cent of children under 5 years of age and 47 per cent of rural women in India. Women’s lack of empowerment is believed to be an important factor in the persistent prevalence of...
- Evaluating demand-side impacts of a youth-friendly initiative in India
- K. Kohler Banke / US Agency for International Development, 2007
- This study is an evaluation of the family planning knowledge, attitudes, and practices of Indian married youth as well as the demand-side effects of a youth-friendly family planning (FP) initiative in India known as the Saathiya campa...
- Is the Asia-Pacific facing mounting youth problems?
- United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, 2007
- Focusing on six Asia-Pacific countries; Australia, China, India, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea and Singapore, this paper documents information and experiences on youth issues, youth policy formulation and programme development. With...
- Save the Children India
- Child rights organisation in India
- The Goodwill Social Work Centre
- The Goodwill Social Work Centre aims to: promote the overall development of children, youth and women in rural and urban areas in India, who are socially and economically deprived provide family-centred home-based intensive services to children, youth and women in dysfunctional families in slums and backward areas in India sensitise rural and ur...
- The Concerned for Working Children (CWC)
Promoting a society free of child labour
- Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC)
- Indian urban health network
- Butterflies, India
- Butterflies is an NGO that works with street children in Delhi, India. The organisation’s programmes include education, health, saving schemes, a crisis centre, children's media, and vocational training. Butterflies has a research and advocacy centre that focuses on child rights issues. These include nutritional status of street children child labour non formal education Butter...
- Mamidipudi Venkatarangaiya Foundation (MVF)
- Action against child labour in India
- National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCC)
- Organisation coordinating and promoting child-focused social development
- HAQ Centre for Child Rights
- Centre for child rights
- Centre for Women's Development Studies (CWDS)
- Indian research centre specialising in gender-based research
- Indicus Analytics
- Indian economics research firm
