Child Rights
What SLIC Does
CRI’s major activity is filing Public Interest Cases in the Supreme Court of India and various High Courts on issues affecting children. CRI provides pro-bono legal services to children in conflict with the law and children in need of care and protection in the Juvenile Justice Boards and Child Welfare Committees all over the country. CRI represents children who are victims of sexual abuse or bonded labour during trial proceedings in trial courts, and assists the prosecution in the trial.
Main Concerns
· Child labour· Child trafficking.
· Right to education
· Child health and nutrition
· Child marriages
· Juvenile justice
· Child sexual abuse
· Torture and abuse of children
SLIC Impact
SLIC has been working towards rehabilitating children in conflict with the law and ensuring they don’t get stuck in the criminal justice system. The Supreme Court in our PIL on juvenile justice (Sampurna Behura Vs Union of India), ordered all the states and Union Territories in violation of complying with the JJ act provisions to do with the following:
· Complete training of the Special Juvenile Police Units by the District Legal Aid Services Authority
· Set up Juvenile Justice Boards in every district
· Reduce pendency by ensuring that the Board sits daily with active participation of social workers
· Create a module to train Legal Aid Lawyers and ensure their adequate presence in each district
· Encourage the implementation of the Integrated Child Protection Scheme
· Set up the Commission for Protection of Child Rights in Every state
CRI has also filed a PIL in the Odisha High Court (pending final hearing), to require the state to create a Compulsory Marriage Registration Act to combat child marriage, and ensure that the Mandatory provisions and rules of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act be strictly followed.
State Consultation on Tiger Widows, Forest Rights Act, Reproductive Health Rights, and Human Trafficking
Sundarban is the largest tidal mangrove forest located in the south-east of India adjoining the Bay of Bengal with ...read more
SOUTH 24 PARGANAS DISTRICT MEETING
Human trafficking in India, although illegal under Indian law, remains a significant problem. Women and girls are traf ...read more
EAST MEDINIPORE DISTRICT MEETING
Attaining equality between women and men and eliminating all forms of discrimination against women are fundamental hum ...read more
EAST BARDDHAMAN DISTRICT MEETING
Women constitute almost 50% of the world’s population but India has shown disproportionate sex ratio whereby femaleâ ...read more
SWARUPNAGAR DISTRICT MEETING
Women constitute almost 50% of the world’s population but India has shown disproportionate sex ratio whereby femal ...read more
Bongaon District Meeting
Attaining equality between women and men and eliminating all forms of discrimination against women are fundame ...read more
State Level Meeting on Violation of Human Rights in West Bengal During Covid 19
Prior to the announcement of the National Lockdown on 25 March 2020, a number of courts had shut down in response to t ...read more
District Meeting on Women and Adolescent Empowerment
Women constitute almost 50% of the world’s population but India has shown disproportionate sex ratio whereby fema ...read more
District Meeting on Women and Adolescent Empowerment
Women constitute almost 50% of the world’s population but India has shown disproportionate sex ratio whereby fema ...read more
WEBINAR ON USE OF LAW FOR THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN
"Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights, once and for all."- Hillary Rodham ClintonThe half ...read more
Paediatric Heath Facilities
Soumitra Karmakar Chakraborty vs. The State of West Bengal & Ors W.P.A. (P) No. 164 of 2021
Pending
Minor rape survivor's safe medical termination of pregnancy of 23 weeks
Madhusudha Biswal Vrs State of Odisha -W.P.(C) No. 13546 of 2021
Disposed off
Rescued Bonded laborers in Kurla to get Interim cash assistance as per the Central Sector Scheme for Rehabilitation Bonded Labour, 2016
WRIT PETITION (L) NO.799 OF 2020 Vijay Ram (Minor) through father & Ors. .. Petitioners vs. District Collector, Sub-Urban Mumbai & Ors. .. Respondents
Disposed
Webinar on Understanding Child Rights Role of Law as an Enforcement Tool
Children’s in conflict areas have always been the worst affected part in the society, be it psychological or otherwise ...read more
Child Rights Significance and Need for Child Safeguarding, Children in Need of Care & Protection in Post Covid-19, Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences
A one day webinar on the issue of “the Concerns Pertaining to Child Rights Significance and Need for Child Safeguardin ...read more
Order for maintenance to be paid to Wife and Children under Section 125 of CrPC
Pooka V. Shailendra MJC 1092/2018
Pending
Webinar on District Consultation Meeting on Training, Coaching and Mentoring of Paralegals of Santhal Pargana Development Cluster (SPDC), Pradan
Socio-Legal Information Centre conducted a zoom Webinar on District Consultation Meeting on Training, Coaching and Men ...read more
Using the Law for Human Rights in Arunachal Pradesh
On 18th July, the Socio-Legal Information Centre, in collaboration with North East Support Centre & Helpline, Himala ...read more
Medical Termination of Pregnancy of rape victim
Raju Ravidas Versus State of Jharkhand and ors.
Disposed of
Minor SC Girl demands her right to abortion
Shashikala Vs. State of Madhya Pradesh, W.P. No. 8689/2020
Disposed Off
Bombay High Court: Raped Teen May Abort 23-Week Foetus
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Tuesday allowed a 13-year-old who was allegedly sexually assaulted by her father ...read more
One Out of Every 7 Kids Malnourished in Indore District
INDORE: The Indore bench of MP high court has issued a notice to the state government seeking reply over two petitions f ...read more
Plan of Action: For Working Children in Delhi
To address the situation arising from the recent notification declaring ban on employment of children in domestic work e ...read more
Child Sexual Abuse and the Law
This book analyses important judgement from India and abroad and is useful for advocate and NGOs when they take child se ...read more
Child Marriages and the Law in India
Without consulting any of the NGOs currently campaigning against child marriages, the UPA government has clandestinely d ...read more
Report: National Consultation on Child Rights
rights to discuss and mull over the conflicts and challenges while litigating and while doing advocacy and chalk out st ...read more
Lawyer Shreeji Bhavsar speaks on the sexual assault and murder of 15 year old girl in Dholpur, Rajasthan #BetiBachao
Rajasthan High Court, on September 25th, 2018, issued notice to the state government and CBI in case of sexual assault a ...read more
Two years after rescue from bonded labour, children yet to receive justice, rehabilitation: Delhi HC issues notice
Nirmal Gorana v Govt of NCT of Delhi & Ors, WP (Crl) 1011/2018
No country for its own children: Only constant vigilance and swift action can stop child rapes in India
Socio-Legal Information Centre expresses its concern over the recent and increasingly distressing slew of child sexual a ...read more
Call for applications for National Consultation of Lawyers on Child Rights in Himachal Pradesh
If you’re a young lawyer, law student or social activist who intends to work in the field of child rights and fight fo ...read more
Lack of action on child bonded labour: Delhi HC issues notice to state, asks for status reports on child labour schemes
Nirmal Gorana v Government of NCT of Delhi & Ors WP (Crl) 1011/2018 This petition made the grievance that despit ...read more
Child marriage: The worst form of slavery
The inescapable presence of child marriage that has persisted through the ages depicts the human rights crisis within In ...read more
Delhi HC issues notice in case of school discriminating against child with ADHD
The Delhi High Court on February 6, 2018, issued notices to respondent parties in a case of discrimination against and t ...read more
Supreme Court on Children
The Supreme Court of India and the High Courts of the states have made enormous and innovative interventions using Artic ...read more
Out of School Children
Nomadic and Denotified tribes constitute approximately 10% of Indian population1. Having left out of both the sc ...read more
Awareness of Juvenile Justice : Jammu and Kashmir
Research Led by : Sahar Gul and Heeba Din. ...read more
A study on the social life of ex-residents of the government juvenile justice institutions in kerala.
Book is edited, Adv. Sandhya Raju Research is led by Gopika Govindan, Diya Elizabeth Punnoose, Adv. Arunima .N. Das ...read more
SLIC files petition seeking action against alarming number of children dying from malnutrition in MP
Shriprakash Singh Nimraje vs State of MP & Ors Several children have died of malnutrition-related ailments in Madhya ...read more
Fact findings on Public Health Centres in South West Khasi Hills, Shillong
Please find the Fact Finding Report attached. Public Health Centres in South West Khasi hills Districts of Meghalay ...read more
Fact finding report on Public Heath Centres in Meghalaya
Please find the Fact finding report attached. Rambrai Public health centre In West West Khasi Hills District of Me ...read more
Survey conducted of Government schools in Bihar
Bihar State Primary Teachers Association vs. U.O.I & Ors.
Fact finding on Public Health Centres in Shillong, Meghlaya
Please find the Fact Finding Report attached. Public Health Centres in Ri-Bhoi and East Khasi hills Districts of ...read more
Fact findings related to maternal and infant deaths in Meghalaya
Please find the report attached. ...read more
