Issues of Child Rights: A Case Study
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2015
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North Bengal Anthropologist
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University of North Bengal
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Biswas, S. K., & Gan, B. (2015). Issues of Child Rights: A Case Study. North Bengal Anthropologist, 3, 127–137. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/5289
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Biswas, Samar Kumar
Gan, Biswanath
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Children are the building blocks of a nation. If they are provided the appropriate
kind of development, they contribute to the nation’s growth in a big way, when they grow
old. However, today the violation of child rights is widely rampant and it is a crucial issues
overall the world. They are child, therefore, they cannot protest against it. They are not
able to demand, they have no capacity to form a union, and probably incapable of seeking,
and therefore public opinion about the rights of the child is not supposed to be claimed by
the child itself. It is necessary to be done by those who are responsible for taking care of
the child. The children have no right to demand in the sense they have not the capacity to
demand but the child has accepted rights as given in the convention. In this context, the
present study has been done on the child workers in Balasan River Basin of Darjeeling
district, West Bengal, India, where most of the people are engaged in stone based economy
and earned very little, which is not sufficient for maintaining their daily livelihood. Most in
cases, the parents of these children are unable to provide the necessary requirements to
their children; and thus, from the very beginning, most of the children are bound to engage
in this work to support their families. Due to this fact, most of the child workers are
deprived of their basic rights like food, shelter, proper education, health; and leisure and
recreation, intellectual development, growth, freedom and so on. There are so many factors
responsible for it. In this concern, in the light of child rights violation- how the children are
being exploited in the economic field; and how their education, health, and development as
well are being affected have been discussed in this article.
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3
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2320-8376
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127 - 137