Annual Report of HAQ: Centre for Child Rights - 2010-2011

ANNUAL REPORT
January 2010 to March 2011
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HAQ is now in the twelfth year of its formal existence, having been set in October 1998 with
a formal registration under the Societies Registration Act, coming through in June 1999.
In all these years, like all human rights organisations, HAQ has continued to work with the
understanding that the state is the primary duty bearer and accountable for the realisation of all
rights held by its people. Over the years therefore, HAQ has been engaged in monitoring state
performance in the realisation of the rights of children in India and in creating tools for
monitoring this performance in an effort to hold the state accountable.
HAQ believes that performance of any State on realisation of rights is linked to governance. It
has been recognised across the world that improved or good governance is a precondition for
sustained poverty reduction and a peaceful and stable society.
Children & Governance
Budget for Children (BfC)
What began in 2001 as an analysis of the Central Government’s budget from a child rights
perspective, has grown and evolved into a full fledged and regular programme called BfC
(Budgets for Children). It involves budget analysis and advocacy at national and state level,
building partnership with various stakeholders and strengthening their capacities for
undertaking similar work and/or using it for advocacy and planning. HAQ’s BfC work has
received support from The Ford Foundation and Sir Dorabjee Tata Trust.
BfC in 2010-2011
Like every year, the Union Budget for the
year 2011-12 was analysed and
disseminated widely. A time trend analysis
for the years 2007-08 to 2011-12 is on the
anvil.
The state level BfC work is currently going
on in the states of Andhra Pradesh (AP),
West Bengal (WB), Assam and Delhi.
This year for the first time HAQ has done
BfC analysis of the Delhi state budget. The
budget findings were shared in a meeting
organized by CHETNA, a Delhi based
NGO on 29th
March, which was attended
by a few members of the Child Welfare
Committee and NGO representatives.
Along with BfC analysis HAQ now also
does fund flow tracking of individual
schemes. The first one being the tracking of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) in the six states of
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time we are tracking the fund flow of the schemes which are meant for implementation of the
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection) Act 2000 and also the implementation status of
Integrated Child Protection Scheme in the states. This tracking study is being carried out in
two districts in each state and also in the capital town of the state. The field study in AP is
already done. In WB there has been some delay due to election. We have just finished the first
field visit in July.
Workshop and Release Function
Workshop on Budgets for Children
(BfC)
On November 11, 2010, HAQ organized
a meeting of all organizations that work
on budgeting for children and included
representatives from Assam, Orissa,
Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand and
Rajasthan. Shri Sudhir Kumar,
Additional Secretary, Ministry of Women
and Child Development, Dr. Bishnu
Mahapatra, (then) Programme Officer,
Ford Foundation and Dr. Amitabh
Mukhopadhyay, Joint Secretary and
Financial Adviser, Inter-Parliamentary
Union (IPU) and Commonwealth
Parliamentary Association (CPA), and
former Director General at Comptroller
& Auditor General of India, spoke on
the occasion.
Release of BfC reports-Union and
States
The budget analysis 2004-05 to 2008-09 of the Union and six states, Andhra Pradesh, West
Bengal, Orissa, Assam, Uttar Pradesh and Himachal Pradesh was released on 11November
2010. An audio visual based on the reports was shown. The panel that spoke at this event
consisted of Justice (retd) A.P Shah, Dr. Syeda Hameed, Member Planning Commission and
Dr. Bibek Debroy, Eminent Economist. Dr. Bishnu Mohapatra, Political Scientist and (then)
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What did the panelists have to say…
Bishnu Mohapatra
“I am privileged to be here as I was there when HAQ embarked upon this work and I am a co-
passenger in this journey. As a child rights organization our assumption is that rights are not
endowments. However, the ability to exercise rights needs conditions - and, enabling conditions do
not come free. It has some costs. This is where budgets of governments come in. As people who look
at budgets in the context of rights, we look at the relationship between resources and rights and at the
gaps and disconnects and how to bridge these gaps….We assume democracy helps people articulate
their rights. If that is the case- at the heart of the debate is the question- who speaks for whom?
Indeed, who speaks for children? Why is it that despite allocations, we are unable to deliver resources
in time?”
Dr. Syeda Hameed
“…HAQ has guided me since 2004. They have truly mentored me in the area of children and we are
so grateful to Enakshi, Bharti and all your colleagues. When we began in 2004, the word children was
hardly mentioned in the Planning Process- since then we have made some progress…when we wrote
the chapter on Women’s Agency and Child Rights, we changed the vocabulary… Children are our
demographic dividend. But the struggle for bringing in children into the planning process is a
constant thing. Even to bring children on the agenda of the annual plans of states is a challenge…The
haq of children is fulfilled by organisations such as HAQ that show us that we can device something
that will get the maximum load for children in the plan…I look forward to being guided by you in the
12th Plan”
Dr. Bibek Debroy
“…India’s demographic dividend is not going to last for years and years. We only have a window till
about 2020-2025. There is no automaticity about this demographic dividend leading to change in
lives- it is contingent to health, education, physical infrastructure etc. The aspirations of young India
does not necessarily gel with that of an aging political leadership…the Planning Commission uses the
term, which I think is a terrible word. What we should be talking about is inclusive development.
What HAQ is showing us through their reports today is similar to what Mr. Chidambaram started as
Outomes….”
Justice (Retd) A.P Shah
“Congratulations to HAQ for this great work…when I was reading the report, what struck me was
that when for the first time the Finance Minister spoke about a separate budget for children, the
allocation he spoke about was only half of what was spent on the Common Wealth Games. …Right
to health and education are the responsibility of the government and it has to raise the resources for
fulfilling this. But the state is withdrawing from these two important sectors, which is a disgrace.
Release of Software for BfC..finally ready
The HAQ team has been working on trying to develop a software programme to undertake
Budget for Children analysis for over three years. Since it is the first of its kind, it was a
challenge that we had not foreseen when we embarked on it, unaware of what it means to
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errors, it is ready. Finally, in November 2011 it was
released by Dr. Syeda Hameed. Data entry using
the software programme has begun and some of
our partners too are using it to upload the data.
The software is already being used for making data
entries for the BfC analysis. Data entry for the year
2007-08 to 2010-11 has been completed and entries
for 2011-12 will be completed by mid-August.
Contribution to “Stepping Up Child Protection: An assessment of
Child Protection Systems from all countries in South Asia,
including reflections from Central Asia”
Save the Children approached HAQ for research on child protection
system and its implementation in India for a South Asian report on
children’s right to protection. The outcome of the research is included
in a report published by them.
Fact-finding on the Status of Children in Kandhamal
To create pressure on the Government of India and to secure
justice for the affected people of Kandhamal communal riots
during December 2007 to December 2008, 56 civil society
organisations had come together under the National Solidarity
Forum. The Forum had organised a People’s Tribunal over 22-24
August 2010 in New Delhi to hear testimonies of survivors,
witnesses, victims, human rights activists, civil society
organisations, experts, government representatives and local
organisations; and finally, demanding immediate action from the
government. HAQ was requested to undertake a fact finding study
on the situation of children in the area for presenting it before the
Tribunal.
The report was prepared by Madhumita Purkayastha and Shahbaz Khan Sherwani under the
guidance of Paromita Shastri. The final report title ‘Kandhamal’s Forgotten Children: A Status
Report’ was presented before the Tribunal.
Contribution to a study on resources for urban slum children
Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC) had approached HAQ for an appraisal study for a
potential program aimed at improving well-being and physical environment of slum children.
This was as part of the study conducted by Urban Health Resource Centre (UHRC) supported
by Bernard van Leer Foundation (BvLF), Amsterdam- titled- ‘Financial analysis of resources
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The biggest challenge in this study has been to access data from the departments dealing with
urban development and urban children. Even if there were some schemes that were being
implemented in the slums, segregated figures were not available. Given this challenge
combined with the lack of interest among the partners in this exercise, HAQ decided to exit
from the second phase of this project.
Book on Children and Governance
Over the last four years, Enakshi Ganguly has been working on
compiling and editing a volume on children and governance. It titled –
“Every Right for Every Child – Governance and Accountability”. It has
been a mammoth task and has required identifying authors from across
the world, approaching them, getting them to agree to write and then
waiting endlessly for the manuscripts to arrive, editing etc. It is as yet the
first book on this subject. It is being published by Routledge and will be
available in the market by June-July 2011.
Ongoing studies
Engaging with Children in Budget for Children Analysis (BfC): An Experiment
Experiences in other countries have shown that it is possible to inform as well as engage
children in budget analysis and as well as its use for advocacy. Based on the successful
experiences in other countries like Brazil and South Africa, HAQ has planned to work directly
with organisations working with children, where children are provided an understanding of
BfC, what it is and how it can be used as a tool for accessing services and holding the state
accountable. It is hoped that children will use this understanding to track some services meant
for children, the fund flow and the role of the municipality; and advocate with appreciate
government bodies and agencies for the needful. ABHAS,1
had shown interest in partnering
with HAQ in this new initiative. However, due to some unforeseen reasons, ABHAS is unable
to move ahead until mid-August 2011.
Child Rights Index – A New Tool to Monitor Governance and State Accountability
To hold governments accountable, it is important to be able to generate validated and
empirical data, and develop new tools, which HAQ: Centre for Child Rights has been doing
since inception. A method that has been successfully tried and tested in Africa seemed ripe for
adaptation in India and true to its tradition, HAQ happens to be the one to do it in the
country.
In 2008, the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF) published a report- “The African Report
on Child Well-being: How Friendly are African Governments? This report for the first
time assessed the extent to which African governments meet their obligations in ensuring the
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ABHAS-Action Beyond Help and Support ABHAS, an NGO has shown interest in the project. ABHAS has
been working in Tughlakabad and Noida for the last eight years towards the elimination of gender disparity in
education by providing access to and promoting educational initiatives within schools and communities to
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well-being of children through the development of a Child-friendliness Index. The aim of the
Report was to monitor the wellbeing of children in Africa and the efforts made by African
governments to realise children’s rights and ensure that wellbeing.
HAQ decided to adopt this concept and adapt a slightly modified methodology that has been
developed by ACPF for undertaking a similar analysis in India and creating its own Child-
Rights index. HAQ has adopted the definition of child friendly government from ACPF and
it is as follows:
“…one which is making the maximum effort to meet its obligations to respect, protect and fulfil
child rights and ensure child wellbeing.”
Hence, this index will be yet another tool created to measure
1. the effort made by state governments in terms of the inputs they have channelled for the
benefit of children - laws, policies and programmes initiated and the financial
commitments made to implement them.
2. the outcomes achieved in providing for the needs of children - education status, health
status, crimes against and by children, the status of existing infrastructure to realize a right
(number of schools, health facilities, children’s homes, anganwadis etc), efforts to reach
the most vulnerable (disabled, SC/ST, girl child etc.) and so forth.
This project is currently in its final stages of drafting the chapters as well as creating the
aggregate overall index to rank the state governments based on their performance vis-a-vis
Birth Registration, Sex ratio, Early Childhood Care and Development, Child Marriage, Health,
Education, Child Labour, Crimes against and by Children, as well as General Measures (laws,
state rules, policies and supporting mechanisms).
We hope for it to be a valuable tool and an important contribution, not only to the nascent
global debate on children and governance, but also for advocacy efforts during the drafting of
the 12th
five-year plan and thereafter for necessary policy change.
CRC 20 BS - Review of 20 years of the CRC
As partners of terre des homes (Germany), HAQ
undertook a project to review implementation of 20
years of the CRC. The mandate for this project
came from the Delegates Conference of tdh
(Germany) held in Bad Honnef in 2009, where it
was unanimously decided by tdh to mark 20 years of
CRC with an audit. India took the lead in this
venture. The report looks at the changes in the
socio-economic and political context of India in the
last twenty years and goes on to analyse
implementation of children’s rights in this period.
The part on review of implementation of children’s
rights is being written by HAQ. An initial draft was
prepared and shared with tdh partners across the
country through regional workshops. Inputs
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stages and has also been shared with children through separate regional workshops held in
Mussoorie (for North zone), Amarkantak (for Western zone), Bangalore (for South), Kolkata
(for East) and Imphal (for the North-East). Children’s inputs form a separate and distinct
component of the report.
Child Protection
In the area of child protection, HAQ has established itself as a strong resource centre and
support base for several other actors who deal with children in distress. The demand on HAQ
for training on child rights and child protection has increased manifold. In fact HAQ has been
reaching other states too on training and capacity building in the area of child protection,
particularly juvenile justice.
At the same time advocacy on critical legislations, both existing and upcoming, has been a
major part of the work in 2010-11.
Monitoring the Juvenile Justice System in Delhi
HAQ has been attending all the meetings of the Delhi High Court’s Monitoring Committee on
Juvenile Justice. This helps HAQ raise critical issues of concern to seek timely intervention of
the judiciary where required. HAQ attends the meetings of this Committee as a member of the
Supervision Committee set up by the Delhi High Court on the basis of an order of the High
Court in W.P.(C) 9680/2009 dated 12 December 2009.
Supervision Committee on Observation Homes
Reports of abuse by children in an observation home have been taken up by HAQ as part of
the Supervision Committee on Observation Homes in Delhi. HAQ’s counseling team has also
been part of various inquiries conducted to look into instances of violence and abuse in an
observation home for boys in Delhi.
Issues of vocational training in the observations, drug de-addiction, lack of health care etc.
have been taken up with the High Court Committee on Juvenile Justice from time to time.
Visits to a Children’s Home
HAQ has been visiting the Nirmal Chhaya Children’s Home for Girls regularly for almost last
two years now. In December 2010, HAQ’s permission to
continue its efforts at Nirmal Chhaya Complex was
renewed upto November 2011. 46 visits were made by
the HAQ team between April 2010 and March 2011 (one
every week). Life skill training is provided to the girls by
experts accompanying the HAQ team. Discussions are
held around issues of early marriage, as that has been a
concern for both the young adolescent girls as well as
home authorities, who receive many young married girls.
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paper bags, collage, mehendi, art of paper-folding, role plays
etc.
The weekly visits have helped bring certain issues to light that
have been taken up with the Department of Women and Child
Development if required. For example, there were complaints
from girls at Nirmal Chhaya where a counselor makes weekly
visits. The girls complained and gave it in writing that they
were being beaten and scolded by the staff and the
Superintendent. The matter was taken up with the Director of
the Department of Women and Child Development, New Delhi. The
Superintendent was called and warned about her actions.
One of the challenges for HAQ in Nirmal Chhaya has been the setting
up of a fully functional Children’s Committee in the institution, as
required by law. While the government and the officials in the home
are open to visitors who can come and provide vocational skills or life
training to the girls, they are not open to the idea of having a
functional children’s committee. For HAQ the struggle continues.
A Study on Functioning of the Child Welfare Committees in Delhi
In 2010 HAQ was asked by the Ministry of Justice to conduct a study on the functioning of
the Child Welfare Committees in Delhi. The study was meant to be for a period of six months
but has taken over a year due to delay on various fronts. Resistance from the Department of
Women and Child Development, Govt. of NCT Delhi and some of the CWCs as well as lack
of proper data and information base have been the two major factors in the delay. The CWC
in Sewa Kutir Complex, Kingsway Camp, has not been cooperative and procuring data has
been a herculean task. Despite all efforts, data has not been very forthcoming and some
information is still awaited. In the course of the study focused group discussions were held
with the CWC members and the Department of Women and Child Development. Some of the
issues of concern that emerged have been acted upon the Delhi Government already.
Legal Aid and Counselling
Juvenile Justice Board’s and Child Welfare Committee’s in Delhi identify HAQ as an agency to
fall back on when in need.
HAQ has been approached by the Child Welfare Committee when they face dilemma
regarding legal issues. Between January 2010 and March 2011, HAQ provided legal aid in 27
cases.
As juvenile justice system in Delhi gets strengthened, legal aid lawyers have been provided by
the Delhi Legal Aid Services Authority to the JJBs. The CWCs do not receive the services of
such lawyers for the children produced before them. Whether there should be a need for a
lawyer in matters brought before the CWCs is a question that has bothered HAQ for many
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for a legal aid lawyer to help them out. The question then is legal aid for whom – the child or
the CWC? And if it is to ensure that a child is able to represent herself/himself adequately
before a CWC, then it is based on a very incorrect need as such bodies are meant to interact
with children directly and give them and their families every space to talk to them freely. Yet
there are cases where NGOs like HAQ need to intervene, as the matter is not only about the
CWC proceeding but involves a legal case in a court of law in which the child is engulfed.
Legal advice to parents/guardians, CWCs, police and NGOs dealing with children also
continues. In 37 cases legal advice was given by HAQ between January 2010 and March 2011.
HAQ has been continuing its work of counseling and providing support to the Juvenile Justice
Board to prepare a plan of rehabilitation and reintegration of children on the basis of an
assessment of their present needs and issues concerning them and their family. HAQ has also
provided counselling services to children in need of care and protection or victims of sexual
abuse, but such cases are very few. The need for institutionalising such services has been taken
up with the government at various platforms. This year, the Delhi High Court Committee on
Juvenile Justice asked the Delhi Department of Women and Child Development to provide
counsellors for every JJB and CWC. However, only a few were appointed by the Department
and they have also left. The issue will have to be taken up again with the Delhi High Court
Committee.
In the year 2010-11, counseling was provided by HAQ to 65 children.
Number of children reached so far through legal aid, advice and counselling
Year Legal Aid Legal Advice Counselling Total
CICL CNCP CICL CNCP CICL CNCP
M F M F M F M F M F M F
2005 1 1 4 2 1 9
2006 4 1 1 3 1 10
2007 12 2 3 3 2 1 23
2008 12 20 1 1 3 1 2 40
2009 1 5 4 25 1 10 6 45 4 1 6 108
2010
4 6 12 13 8 16 51 4 2 9 125
2011
(Jan –
March
2011)
4 1 5 1 3 1 2 5 2 24
Total 38 1 18 18 65 1 25 33 106 13 4 17 339

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On 5/25/2011 12:17 PM, Turid Heiberg wrote:
“First of all, I would like to congratulate you with the high professional standard and consistency of the
Budget for Children Analysis report.
We have worked hard to get to this level and your leadership, facilitation and quality standards are
greatly acknowledged. Your patience is also seen and appreciated. The final product is beautiful and will
guide us for many years.
We are receiving many good words about the report from SC member HQ's - and presently the people
you trained in Dhaka last year are carrying out a training in Sri Lanka. In Nepal they have conducted a
country budget analysis which is soon available. They were not that satisfied but it can be improved
next year.
Very best and once again thank you from the whole SCS team in Kathmandu as well as on behalf of
SC's Child Rights Governance team!!!
Warm regards,
Turid
Turid Heiberg
Regional Director
Save the Children
Regional Office for South & Central Asia
Training and Capacity Building
Development of Training Materials/Reports
In 2010, HAQ prepared a handbook for those who are interested in
venturing into budget for children analysis and advocacy. This project was
undertaken at the request of Save the Children, Sweden, and Regional
Office, Kathmandu. It is designed to assist all those individuals and
organisations who are interested in monitoring the state using budget
analysis.
Child Rights and Protection Trainings
78 trainings have been conducted on child rights, child trafficking, child protection, juvenile
justice, etc. for law enforcement officials, members of the judiciary, civil society groups and
communities associated with various NGOs. Details are attached in the Annexure1.
HAQ has been associated with the Outer District Special Juvenile Police Unit (SJPU) and is
part of their regular meetings to discuss issues of concern and strengthen the SJPU.

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Advocacy
National
HAQ’s law and policy advocacy work is ever continuous, with many ongoing interventions.
Protection of Children against Sexual Offences Bill: The Ministry of Women and Child
Development has drafted a law on sexual offences against children. HAQ has been part of
discussions on this bill from the very beginning and has also worked with both child rights
groups and women’s groups to draft the recommendations for inclusion in the law.
HAQ, along with RAHI, commented on the bill that was approved by the Cabinet and
circulated it. The comments were circulated widely and led to the Ministry placing a reworked
draft in the Rajya Sabha.
In March the government placed a new Bill before the Rajya Sabha, and is currently before
the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Human Resources Development. Once again HAQ
has commented on this new draft and has also sought permission to appear before the
Standing Committee.
Mainstreaming child rights into other Laws
HAQ believes that children’s rights have to be mainstreamed into
all actions of government. Therefore it is perhaps the only child
rights organization in the country that has decided to send
recommendations for amendments for the Mines Minerals
(Development and Regulation) Act, 2010 and the Prevention of
Torture Bill, 2010. Advocacy with Parliamentarians led to
inclusion of children in the Torture Bill.
Looking at loopholes
Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
RIGHTS Child rights activists Bharti Ali and Enakshi Ganguly speak to Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty about some of the
provisions of the Offences Against Children Bill, recently passed by the Union Cabinet
A small step Though definitely welcome, the Bill needs further discussion to address shortcomings
The Union Cabinet recently passed the Offences Against Children Bill in Parliament. With mounting cases of
child sexual abuse in the country, the Bill is definitely a path-breaking shot at photo: reuters stemming such
crimes. Much as our child rights activists are excited about the Bill, they also point out its shortcomings. “We
feel the Bill needs a thorough discussion at appropriate levels so that the loopholes get plugged,” states Enakshi
Ganguly of Haq, one of the few NGOs working for child rights in India. Here, Enakshi along with Bharti Ali,
co-director of Haq, decipher for our readers what the Bill has and should have.
Cabinet approves bill to protect children against sexual crimes
Chetan Chauhan, Hindustan Times
New Delhi, March 03, 2011
The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved a watershed bill to protect children below the age of 16 against
sexual offences, aimed at speedy trail through special courts and having a legal regime at par with best
international practices..... “It is a good law but lacks provisions for proper rehabilitation of the victims,” said
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Representation on important government bodies
HAQ has been a part of several committees set up by the government at national and state
level to review policies and laws and provide expertise in the selection of functionaries to
various programmes and implementation structures. These include:
Drafting Committee for CARA Guidelines – As part of the Drafting Committee for the
CARA Guidelines, HAQ has been raising its concerns over several contentious issues that
CARA has been trying to push through. HAQ’s concern has been about CARA’s unending
efforts at creating a market for children in the name of adoption. Due to disagreements on the
CARA Guidelines as notified on 24th
June 2011, HAQ has been advocating with the Ministry,
National Legal Services Authority and other bodies for a review of the CARA Guidelines as
well as for a national law on adoption. A PIL in the Supreme Court seeking a law on adoption
has been on the anvil and is under preparation.
National Policy for Children – A drafting committee was set up by the Ministry of Women
and Child Development to review the outdated 1974 policy for children and put in place a new
one.
Others
HAQ continues to be part of the Delhi Government’s Selection Committee for CWC and JJB
Members. In addition Bharti Ali has been the expert member on the Selection Committee set
up by NIPCCD for recruitment of personnel for the Central Ministry’s ICPS project.
International
Working group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR)
The Working Group on Human Rights in India and the UN (WGHR) was established in
January 2009 by a group of civil society organizations and independent experts working in the
field of human rights in India, of which HAQ is a proud member.
The basis of WGHR's work is national and international human rights law. WGHR works
towards the realisation of all civil, cultural, economic, political and social human rights in the
country and towards holding the Indian government accountable to its national and
international human rights obligations. At the national level, WGHR seeks to engage with
relevant human rights, government, parliamentary, judicial and academic institutions. At the
international level, WGHR seeks to effectively work with United Nations (UN) human rights
instruments and mechanisms. As part of the group, HAQ has contributed to the following:
• Position Paper to the UN on The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory
Education Act, 2009 (RTE): From 28 June to 2 July 2010, a nine-member delegation
from WGHR visited Geneva, Switzerland, to engage directly with the United Nations
human rights system. HAQ prepared a position paper for this visit on Right to Education.

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• Universal Periodic Review (UPR): The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) involves a
review of the human rights records of all 192 UN Member States once every four
years. For India’s first UPR in 2008, the government did not adequately engage with civil
society.
Consequently, India’s national report suffered in its substance and relevance. This past
year, HAQ lent its support to WGHR in conducting a mid‐term assessment of the status
of implementation of the UPR recommendations to India. HAQ also helped draw the
attention of the Council to the Government of India's responses to Recommendations 7
(Consider signature and ratification of ILO Conventions No. 138 and 182) and 9 (Review
the declaration to Article 32 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC)) made by
delegations during the first UPR in 2008. HAQ contributed to the preparations for a
“Consultative Workshop on the UPR Process” (held in April this year) by WGHR,
including preparation of a written submission to the UN on the UPR process.
• Submission to Margarette Sekaggya, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Ruights
Defenders
On 11 January 2011, Enakshi Ganguly Thukral from HAQ made a submission on Child
Rights Defenders in India, at a meeting organized by the Working Group on Human
Rights to India and the UN.
Fourth International Policy Conference on the African Child
In December 2010, the African Child Policy Forum organized an international conference on
Africa’s children, focusing on budgeting for children. Enakshi Ganguly Thukral Forum was
one of the key speakers on the theme.
UN Draft Law on Juvenile Justice
In March 2011, UNODC organised an international Experts Group Meeting in Vienna to
discuss a UN Draft Model Law on Juvenile Justice. Bharti Ali from HAQ attended the
meeting and gave necessary inputs based on the India experience.
Miscellaneous
Conference on Children’s Rights: Issues and Concerns – 125 Years of DAV’s initiatives
in India
The DAV Forum approached HAQ for organising a conference on child rights as part of their
125 year celebration. HAQ helped them put together a panel of experts for the conference.
Enakshi Ganguly Thukral facilitated the panel discussions.

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Donors
In the reporting period HAQ received financial support from:
1. Ford Foundation – Children and Governance
2. CORD AID
3. terre des homes (Germany)
Interns/Volunteers
1. Mr. Abraham Verghese
2. Mr. Kiran Reddy
3. Ms. Stuti Kamal
4. Ms. Deepsikha Batheja
5. Mr. Suyash Sinha
6. Ms. Sudeshna Panigrahi
7. Ms. Shreya Suri
8. Ms. Geetika Kaushal
9. Mr. Siddharth Lamba
HAQ Team
• Ms. Enakshi Ganguly Thukral - Co-Director
• Ms. Bharti Ali - Co-Director
• Ms. Parul Thukral - Programme Coordinator (Children and Governance - leading Child
Friendly Index)
• Ms. Sharmila Kher - Coordinator-Advocacy & Communication
• Ms. Madhumita Purkayastha - Programme Officer (Children and Governance - leading
Budget Analysis)
• Ms. Indarilin Dkhar - Programme Officer (Children and Governance - leading Children’s
participation in Budget)
• Ms. Praveena Nair S - Legal Council Cum Research Officer
• Mr. Shahbaz Khan Sherwani - Programme Officer (Child Protection - Counselling)
• Ms. Namita Bhutani - Programme Officer (Child Protection - Counselling)
• Ms. Neena Sharma - Administration (January 2002 to May 2010)
• Ms. Preeti Singh - Administration and Accounts
• Mr. Aditya Kumar - Administrative Assistant
• Mr. Dheeraj Joshi - Office Assistant ( July 2009 to June 2010)
• Mr. Deepak Tiwari - Office Assistant (June to October 2010)
• Mr. Tarcitius Baa - Office Assistant
HAQ EC
• Urvashi Butalia - President
• Jaya Shrivastava- Treasurer
• Susmit Bose- Member
• Miloon Kothari – Member
• Neelam Singh - Member

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Annexure 1
Training and Capacity Building Programmes
Year April 2010 - March 2011
1. 05/04/2010 Mangol Puri
Police Station
Juvenile Justice Police Officers Bharti Ali/Ashok
Kumar
2. 06/04/2010 NIPCCD Legal safeguards
for women in
distress
NGO workers Bharti Ali
3. 09/04/2010 SJPU,
Nanakpura
Juvenile Justice Juvenile Welfare
Officers
Bharti Ali
4. 19/04/2010-
20/04/2010-
21/04/2010
Christan
Blind
Mission,
Bangalore
Child Rights NGO workers Bharti Ali, Enakshi
Ganguly Thukral,
Somya Bhaumik
5. 19/04/2010 SP Badli
Police Station
Kumar
6. 26/04/2010 South Rohini
Police Station
Kumar
7. 04/05/2010 Prashant
Vihar Police
Station
Kumar
8. 07/05/2010 K.N. Katju
Marg Police
Station
Kumar
9. 14/05/2010 North Rohini
Police Station
Kumar
10.16/05/2010 Delhi Judicial
Academy
Children as
Rights’ Holders:
Welfare to Rights
Judicial Officers
designated to be
notified as Judges
of the Children’s
Courts set up u/s
25 of the
Commission for
Protection of Child
Rights Act, 2005
Bharti Ali and
Enakshi Ganguly
Thukral
11.28 -
29/05/2010
ISI Lodhi
Road
Juvenile Justice Juvenile Welfare
Officers
Bharti Ali
12.04/06/2010 Shabad Dairy
Police Station
Juvenile Justice Police Officers Bharti Ali
13.04/06/2010 Mahila Jan
Adhikar
Samiti and
CRY, Ajmer
Children’s Right
to Protection
NGOs and
community people
Enakshi Ganguly
Thukral
14.07/06/2010 North Rohini
Police Station
15.09/06/2010 NIPPCD Child Rights and Juvenile Welfare Bharti Ali

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Juvenile Justice
System
officers
16.11/06/ 2010 Prashant
Vihar Police
Station
17.14/06/2010 S.P. Dairy
Police Station
18.17/06/2010 NIPCCD Child Marriage
and Prohibition
Act, 2006
NGO workers Bharti Ali
19.18/06/2010 K.N. Katju
Marg Police
Station
20.21/06/2010 Alipur Police
Station
21.25/06/2010 Narela Police
Station
Juvenile Justice Police Officers Shahbaz Sherwani
& Praveena Nair S
22.28/06/2010 Bawana
Police Station
Juvenile Justice Police Officers Praveena Nair S
23.29/06/2010 Bangalore
Police
Academy
(organised by
NIPPCD)
Child rights and
Juvenile Justice
Police Officials Bharti Ali
24.02/07/2010 Mangolpuri
Police Station
25.07/07/2010 Kanjhawala
Police Station
26.09/07/2010 Sultan Puri
Police Station
27.16/07/2010 Vijay Vihar
Police Station
28.26/07/2010 North Rohini Juvenile Justice Police Officers Praveena Nair S
29.20/07/2010-
21/07/2010
Rajasthan
Police
Academy,
Jaipur
Child rights and
Juvenile Justice
Police Officials Bharti Ali
30.02/08/2010 NIPCCD,
Delhi
Laws related to
Trafficking of
Women and
Children
NGOs receiving
Grant under the
Ujjwala Scheme
Bharti Ali
31.04/08/2010 Haryana
Police
Academy
Child rights and
Juvenile Justice
Police Officials Bharti Ali &
Enakshi Ganguly
32.06/08/2010 NIPCCD Care and
Protection
through
NGOs receiving
Grant under the
Ujjwala Scheme
Namita Bhutani &
Shahbaz Khan

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Counselling
33.16/08/2010 Narela Juvenile Justice Police Officials Praveena Nair S
34.19/08/2010 NIPPCD Child Rights with
focus on ECCD
NGO workers Praveena Nair S &
Sharmila Kher
35.23/08/2010 Shahbaad
Dairy Police
Station
Juvenile Justice Police Officials Praveena Nair S
36.24/08/2010 NIPCCD,
Guwahati,
Eastern
Regional
Office
Training of
Trainers (ToT)
on Juvenile
Justice System
and ICPS
Police Officers and
Representatives of
Voluntary
Organisations
Bharti Ali
37.24/09/2010 K N Katju
Marg Police
Station
Juvenile Justice Police Officials Praveena Nair S
38.25/09/2010 Mobile
Creches
Child Rights Youth workers
from Mobile
Creches
Shahbaz Sherwani
& Sharmila Kher
39.09/10/2010 Mobile
Creches
Child Rights Youth Workers
from Mobile
Creches
Shahbaz Sherwani
& Sharmila Kher
40.19/10/2010 Room to
Read
Child
Rights/Girl
Child/Education
Youth Workers Praveena Nair &
Shahbaz Sherwani
41.29-31/10/2010 UNICEF,
Jharkhand
Orientation
Training on
Child Protection
and Juvenile
Justice System
Newly Appointed
JJ Functionaries
Bharti Ali &
Enakshi Ganguly
Thukral
42.01/11/2010 Aman Vihar
Police Station
Child Rights Police Officials Praveena Nair &
Shahbaz Sherwani
43.18/11/2010 NCERT ECCE School Teachers Indarilin Dkhar &
Madhumita
Purkayastha
44.22/11/2010 NIPCCD,
Delhi
TOT on
Prevention of
Trafficking of
Women and
Children
Police Training
Institutes
Bharti Ali
45.23 -
24/11/2010
Kanpur
World Vision
Child Rights,
CRC, Child
Labour
Volunteers, NGO
workers
Praveena Nair &
Madhumita
Purkayastha
46.23 -
24/11/2010
Abhaas Training with
children
Children Bharti Ali &
Enakshi Ganguly
Thukral
47.24/11/2010 Jesus and Psycho-Social Students from all Namita Bhutani

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Mary College Intervention
under the
Juvenile Justice
System
three years
48.29/11/2010 CESVI,
Chennai
Child Rights –
With special
focus on Right to
Education
Protection
NGO partners of
CESVI
Enakshi Ganguly
Thukral and Bharti
Ali
49.29/11/2010 K N Katju
Marg Police
Station
Madhumita
Purkayastha
50.01/12/2010 NIPCCD,
Guwahati,
Eastern
Regional
Office
Sensitization
Programme on
Juvenile Justice
System and ICPS
Personnel of Legal
Services Authority
Bharti Ali
51.06/12/2010 Narela Police
Station
Child Rights Police Officials Praveena Nair
52.13/12/2010 S.B. Dairy
Police Station
53.16/12/2010 CAW Cell
Nanakpura
Meeting
Program Plan
Ahead
New Joint CP Mr.
J.K. Sharma,
Suman Alwa,
Other NGO’s
Bharti Ali,
Praveena Nair
54.22/12/2010 Institute of
Development
Studies,
Jaipur
TOT on Child
Protection
Government
Functionaries of
Department of
Social Justice and
Empowerment,
Superintendents of
Homes, Childline
Functionaries,
NGOs working
with children,
Media, CWC and
JJB Members and
Medical Doctors
from homes
Enakshi Ganguly
Thukral
55.27/12/2010 Pitampura
DCP Office
Child Rights DCP and SHO’s of
outer district
Bharti Ali
Praveena Nair
56.29/12/2010 Dakishpuri
Mobile
Creches
Child Rights Children 8-14 age
group
Sharmila Kher,
Namita Bhutani,
Shahbaz Sherwani
57.29/12/2010 DCP
Pitampura
Child Rights
Program Plan
Additional DCP Bharti Ali
Praveena Nair
58.03/01/2011 Tula Ram Child Protection ACP, outer, SHO, Bharti Ali,

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Public
School, Aman
Vihar
ASHO Aman
Vihar, school
children,
community leaders,
members of the
public
Praveena Nair
Ashok Kumar
59.08/01/2011 Seemapuri
Mobile
Creches
Child Rights Children 14-18 age
group
Namita Bhutani,
Shahbaz Sherwani
60.13/01/2011 NIPCCD,
Delhi
ECCE/Child
Rights
NGO Workers Sharmila Kher
Namita Bhutani
61.15/01/2011 Seemapuri
Mobile
Creches
Child
Rights/Protectio
n issues
Youth Group Shahbaz Khan
Sherwani
Praveena Nair
62.17/01/2011 S.P. Badli Child Rights Police Officials Praveena Nair
Preeti Singh
63.20/01/2011 Don Bosco
Ashalayam
Protection Issues
in Institutional
Care
Welfare
Officers/workers
from children’s
homes
Praveena Nair
Shahbaz Khan
Sherwani
64.21/01/2011 K.N.Katju
Marg Police
Station
Madhumita
Purkayastha
65.22/01/2011 Dakshinpuri
Mobile
Creches
Child Rights Children 14-18 year
age group
Praveena Nair
Sharmila Kher
66.24/01/2011 Addl. DCP
Pitampura
Child Rights Police Officials,
SHO’s, ACP’s
Outer District
Praveena Nair
67.31/01/2011 North Rohini
Police Station
Aditya Kumar
68.05/02/2011 Aman Vihar,
DDA Park,
Prem Nagar
Missing Children Police Officials,
Community
members, children
Praveena Nair
69.07/02/2011 Shabad Dairy
Police Station
Shahbaz Khan
70.22/02/2011 Department
of Women
and Child
Development
Govt. of
Chhattisgarh
Child Rights and
Protection
JJB and CWC
Members
Bharti Ali
71.23/02/2011 DCP Office,
Pitampura
JJ Act SHO’s and ACP’s
of outer district
Bharti Ali &
Praveena Nair
72.25/02/2011 Mobile
Creches
Life Skills-
women group
Women Group Praveena Nair
73.05/03/2011 ILI JJ System Law Students Praveena Nair &

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Shahbaz Khan
74.11/03/2011 Aman Vihar
Community
Outreach
Information on
Police and SJPU
Community
Children and
Adults
More than 100
particpants
Praveena Nair &
Shahbaz Khan
75.11/03/2011 Prashant
Vihar Police
Station
JJ Act Police Officials Praveena Nair &
Shahbaz Khan
76.18/03/2011 K N Katju
Marg Police
Station
JJ Act Police Officials Shahbaz Khan
77.24/03/2011 East SJPU
Krishna
Nagar Police
Station
JJ Act Police Officials (30
JWOs)
Shahbaz Khan
78.29/03/2011 NIPCCD Skills of
Counselling
Counsellors Family
counselling centres
across the country
Shahbaz Khan &
Namita Bhutani

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