JKM On Child Protection
Children are the future of the country. Being an extremely vulnerable population, their protection assumes great significance for their healthy development. However, not seen as a major issue earlier it has surfaced as a matter of major concern for policy makers and even public at large. The united Nations convention on child rights, by declaring right to protection as an issue of child rights has provided some attention and obligation on the signatory states though much remains to be realized. Going by literal meaning, child protection would bring under its ambit numerous categories of children whose security is at stake, reeling in situations of neglect, maltreatment,
injury, trafficking, sexual and physical abuse of all kinds, pornography, corporal
punishment, torture, exploitation, violence and degrading treatment waiting for
immediate attention and protection.
The government of India has recognised these children as children are in especially difficult circumstances, with and estimated figure is 30 million as per ministry of social justice and empowerment. The much needed infrastructure and administrative mechanisms for dealing with the apathy of such children in India has been far from being adequate in spite of the recognition of the problem.
Jan Kalyaan has been striving for providing and promoting institutional and noninstitutional mechanisms for the effective rehabilitation of neglected children. JKM considers the juvenile justice, child trafficking, child labour and child abuse as issues of child rights and child protection and addresses them through shelter home for
children, childline.
Jan Kalyaan plays a pivotal role in drawing the experiences from the numerous institutional and non-institutional programmes and raising issues of concern at the policy level. Jan Kalyaan Morcha has raised the issues of child protection vehemently in all the working states of JKM.
