India and Children and young people
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New Delhi - Population:
1173108018 - Size:
3287590.0 Km2
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- Overview of statistics and social dynamics of poverty in Rajasthan
- K. Mathur; S. Rajagopal; P. Bhargava / Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre, 2004
- This paper reviews the literature on childhood poverty in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Designed to inform future primary research in the state, it examines the effects of poverty on children, analyses the relationship between liveli...
- Review of education programmes in the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme
- I. Warwick; P. Aggleton / Centre for Sexual Health Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Southampton, 2002
- This document outlines discussions from the Expert meeting for the Safe Passages to Adulthood programme, where researchers, practitioners and policy makers explored the potential of education to protect against HIV/AIDS, as well as th...
- Outlining the situation of AIDS orphans in India and current responses to the epidemic
- International HIV/AIDS Alliance, 2004
- The impact of HIV/AIDS has not begun to emerge fully in India, and AIDS-related orphaning is not yet occurring on a large scale. Yet, it is believed that India possibly has the largest number of AIDS orphans in the world. Learning fro...
- Reproductive health status of youth in Asia and the Near East
- K. Hardee; P. Pine; L. Taggart Wasson / Policy Project, Futures Group, Washington, 2004
- This paper presents the findings of a series of assessments of adolescent and youth reproductive health conducted by the Policy Project in 13 countries in the Asia and Near East (ANE) region. The countries include Egypt, Jordan, Moroc...
- Political will is needed to free bonded child labourers in India's silk industry
- Human Rights Watch, 2003
- This report is a survey of child labour in the silk industry in India. The report argues that the Indian government, by heavily regulating and subsidizing the industry, is in an especially favourable position to intervene to stop the ...
- Needs or rights? Education and the working child in South Asia
- Naila Kabeer; Geetha B. Nambissan; Ramya Subrahmanian; Susan Bissell; Neera Burra; Kaushik Basu; Mohammad Talib; R.Govinda; Dhir Jhingran; Keiko Miwa / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
- What is the nature of the conflict between the right of the child to education and the economic needs of the family? Which of these concerns should take priority? Should the state mediate in this ‘needs versus rights’ confli...
- Comparison of causes of infant and child mortality between Andhra Pradesh and Kerala
- E. Masset; H. White / Young Lives, 2003
- This paper examines the determinants of infant and child mortality in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala and the factors explaining their differential performance. It concludes that raising service levels across India toward the levels ...
- How does civil society create spaces for implementing the right to education for all in India?
- U. Devi / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2002
- This paper analyses the role of civil society in advocating for the adoption of the Bill on the Right to Education in India. The author argues that recent successes in civil society mobilisation could form a good basis to implementing...
- Children ill-served by HIV/AIDS interventions
- G. A. Cornia / UNESDOC: Online UNESCO documents, 2002
- This first chapter from the overall study ‘AIDS, public policy and child well-being’ offers an overview of the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and desirable policy responses. It reviews the community and public policy interve...
- Addressing the stagnation in the reduction of India's child mortality rate?
- M. Claeson; E. Bos; I. Pathmanathan / World Bank, 1999
- This study asks: Is the apparent stagnation in India’s child mortality rate real or simply due to irregularities in the data? If the stagnation is taking place, what factors are behind it? What are the policy options that will su...
- 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
