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In this research paper, an attempt has been made to give an overview of causes, consequences and possible remedial steps for the human right violation against children of India. The issues of child labour, child abuse, "missing children", and juvenile delinquencies have been highlighted. The study is based on analysis of archival reports and case studies. The causes and remedies of the problems related to child right violations are discussed. We have found that there exists a vicious cycle: Poverty causes debt, which drive poor families to push children to the labour market; these children thus remain undernourished, uneducated and continue to lead a live of abject poverty. Social discriminination and inequity causes migration and child trafficking. Trafficked children often become victims of prostitution, face social orchastarisation and become agents of crimes. Parental discord and depression make children victims of physical and emotional violence and such children often show behaviourial problems including juvenile delinquencies. Girls are socially and economically discriminated due to existence of various cultural and social practices such as dowry system, devdashi system etc. Thus infancide, feticide, child marriages and sexual violence are very common in the society. Stricter implementation of labour laws, 'Right to education' act and acts against sexual violence can curb the problem of human right violations of children.
Keywords: Juvenile delinquency, child abuse, missing children, child labor
Introduction
Human beings are God's best creations due to their unique characteristic of power of discretion, rationality and compassion. The preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 proposed that human rights and dignity are self-evident, the "highest aspiration of the common people," and "the foundation of freedom, justice and peace." "Social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom," including the prevention of "barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind," and, broadly speaking, individual and collective well-being, are considered to depend upon the "promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights" (1).
Human rights thus imply that all human beings irrespective of birth, social origin, gender, physical differences, faith and belief, ideology, nationality have equal rights of living with dignity, decency, freedom and equity. By Article 1 of the Convention of Child Rights, a child is an individual who is below the age...