This document discusses issues related to child rights and women's rights in India. It outlines the basic rights of children, including the right to survival, development, protection, and participation. However, many children in India are not receiving these rights. Statistics are provided showing high infant and girl child mortality rates, millions of child laborers deprived of education, high rates of sexual violence against girls and boys, and child marriage affecting millions of girls. The document also discusses problems faced by women in India, such as female feticide/abortion, dowry practices, child marriage, gender-based neglect, and restrictions on widow remarriage. Some rights provided to women under Indian law are also outlined.

1. Issues in India
Child Rights & Women Rights
By Gitanjali Bora
Nikhita Bhatia
6 BAMC
Presented to Suja Maam

3. Basic Child Rights
• Right to Survival
– to life, health, nutrition, name, nationality
• Right to Development
– to education, care, leisure, recreation, cultural activities
• Right to Protection
– from exploitation, abuse, neglect
• Right to Participation
– to expression, information, thought, religion

4. But are the Children Getting these
Rights?

5. But are the Children Getting these
Rights?

6. But are the Children Getting these
Rights?

7. Survival?
• Out of every 1000 children born in India, 31 die
before they are one year old.
• Girls are particularly neglected and many die
early. And many, many girl babies are killed even
before they are born.
• As recorded by UNICEF, in 1984 in Bombay out of
the 8,000 abortions that took place, 7,999 of
them were girls.
• Some were fed dry, un-hulled rice that punctured
their windpipes, or were made to swallow
poisonous powdered fertilizer.

8. Age group VS Gender of India’s Children

9. Development?
• 40 million children in India work as child
labourers, never going to school and having no
chance do develop
• Children in India who do get a chance to go to
school go to government-run schools which
are often dirty, where they are not taught
well, where don’t have books or toys or
learning aids, and where they are not treated
with respect.

10. Protection?
• It is estimated that 150 million girls and 73 million
boys under 18 have been subjected to forced
sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual
violence in 2007.
• In 2002 there were 53,000 reported cases of child
homicide.
• According to the 2001 census there are 1.5 million
girls, in India, under the age of 15 already
married.
• An estimated 1,000 to 1,500 Indian children are
smuggled out of the country every year to Saudi
Arabia for begging during the Hajj.

11. Participation?
• All children have the right to say what they think when
adults are making decisions about them. Adults must
listen and think about what children are saying.
• Children have the right to get information from books,
TV, radio and newspapers.
• Children have the right to think and believe what they
want, practice their religion, and parents and other
adults should guide them.
• Children have a right to meet together, and to join
groups and organizations, as long as these do not harm
them or others.

12. Issues of Women
Rights in INDIA

13. Our first prime
minister
,Jawaharlal Nehru
said , “you can tell
the condition of
nation by looking at
the status of its
women “

14. Condition of women in
India
Our country is on high roads of
success , but still for a women
her life is a battle for survival
and dignity from her birth to
death

15. Problems faced
 Female abortion
 Rape
 Dowry
 Restriction on widow remarriage
 Gender bias
 Neglect during childhood
 Child marriage
 Sati

16. Female Abortion
While goddess are welcomed with open
arms, our doors are shut tight for girl
child.
It’s a very common scenario in almost
all villages.
It has become tradition for some
families to have male children only.
Our sex ratio is : 923 females per
1000 males.

17. Dowry
Dowry is defined as the property , which
a man receives from his wife or her
family at the time of marriage. It is
regulated by factors like :
 Boy’s service and salary
 Economic status
 Educational qualification etc.,

18. Child Marriage
 Getting married before attaining
full mental and physical maturity.
 In rural area 70%of girls are
married before they are 18
 And nearly 56% of married girls
bear children before they are 19 .

20. SOME RIGHTS PROVIDED TO
WOMEN
• Voting right.
• Education right.
• Property right.
• Safety right.
• Right to express.

21. • Women cannot be called to the police station
for interrogation under Section 160 of the
Criminal Procedure Code.
• According to a Supreme Court ruling, a woman
cannot be arrested after sunset and before
sunrise.
• The police cannot refuse to register an FIR
even if a considerable period of time has
elapsed since the incident of rape or
molestation took place.
• Under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure
Code, a woman who has been raped can record
her statement before the district magistrate
when the case is under trial, and no one else