INFORMATION REQUIRED
FOR
SECOND INDIA COUNTRY REPORT

NON GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS

1. What are your views pertaining to the age-limit for children with regard to:

• Legal and medical counselling without parental consent
• Medical treatment or surgery without parental consent
• Compulsory education
• Admissions to employment or work including hazardous work, part-time or full time work
• Marriage
• Sexual consent for boys and girls
• Conscription
• Criminal conviction
• Lodging complaints and seeking redress before a court or other relevant authority without parental responsibility
• Participating in administrative and judicial proceedings affecting the child
• Giving consent to change of identity, including change of name, modification of family relations, adoption and guardianship.

2.   What steps are being taken by your organisation to combat and prevent discrimination, both in law and practice, including discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste, colour, sex, etc.?

3.    What are the measures being adopted by your organisation to reduce disparities on economic, social and geographical grounds, including between rural and urban areas, to prevent discrimination against most disadvantaged groups such as minorities, indigenous communities, disabled children, children born out of wedlock, children who are non-nationals, migrants, displaced children, refugees or asylum seekers and street children?

4.  What initiatives are being taken by your organisation with respect to the best interests of the child being given primary consideration in family life, school life, social life and areas such as:

• Planning and development policies, including housing, transport and environmental policies
• Adoption
• Placement and care of children in institutions
• Social security.

5.  What are the steps being taken by your organisation to establish appropriate standards for all public and private institutions, services and facilities responsible for the care and protection of children and to ensure that they conform with such standards in the area of safety, health, number and suitability of their staff?

ARTICLE 6 [RIGHT TO LIFE, SURVIVAL AND DEVELOPMENT]

6.  What are the specific measures being taken by your organisation to guarantee the child’s right to life, and to create an environment conducive to ensuring to the maximum extent possible, the survival and development of the child - physical, mental, spiritual, moral, psychological and social development?

ARTICLE 12 [RESPECTS FOR THE VIEWS OF THE CHILD]

7. What steps are being taken by your organisation to protect the rights of the child to express his/her views freely on all matters affecting him or her?

8.  What are the views of your organisations regarding the rights of the child to be heard in judicial and administrative procedures affecting him or her, as well as situations in which the child can intervene directly or through a representative or an appropriate body?

9.  Provide information on the measures being taken by your organisation to raise the awareness of family and public in general of the need to encourage children to exercise their right to express views.

10.  Indicate the initiatives being taken by your organisation to ensure that the views of the child are obtained through public opinion, consultation and assessment of complaints and taken into consideration in the legal provisions and in policy or judicial decisions.

ARTICLE 7 [NAME AND NATIONALITY]

11. Is your organisation undertaking any programme(s) to sensitise and mobilise public opinion on the need for birth registration?

ARTICLE 13 [FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION]

12. What are the measures being adopted by your organisation to ensure the child's right to freedom of expression, including seeking, receiving and imparting information?

ARTICLE 16 [FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION AND PEACEFUL ASSEMBLY]

13. Are any programmes being undertaken by your organisation to ensure the child’s right to freedom of association and peaceful assembly?

ARTICLE 16 [PROTECTION OF PRIVACY]

14. Is your organisation taking any initiatives to prevent any arbitrary or unlawful interference with the child's privacy, family, home or correspondence, as well as any attack on his or her honour and reputation?

ARTICLE 17 [ACCESS TO APPROPRIATE INFORMATION]

15. What are the initiatives being taken by your organisation to ensure that children have access to a diversity of national and international sources of information and material aimed at promotion of the child's social, spiritual and moral well being, physical and mental health. Indicate measures adopted to encourage:

• Production and dissemination of children's books, dissemination by the mass media of information and material of social and cultural benefit to the child, in particular, to the linguistic needs of children belonging to minority groups or who are indigenous
• Aims of education.
  

ARTICLE 5&18 [FAMILY ENVIRONMENT ALTERNATE CARE]

16. Is your organisation providing any family counselling services, parental education programmes and awareness campaigns for parents and children on the rights of the child within family life, and training to relevant professional groups? Has any evaluation been made on their effectiveness? Indicate how knowledge and information about the child are conveyed to parents or other persons responsible for the child.

ARTICLE 18 [PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY]

17. What are the measures being adopted to render appropriate assistance by your organisation to parents and legal guardians in the performance of their child rearing responsibilities, on institutions, facilities and services provided on specific measures adopted for children from single-parent families and belonging to the most disadvantaged groups including those living in extreme poverty?

18. Provide relevant disaggregated information - by gender, age, region, rural/urban, social and ethnic origin - on children benefited by these measures and resources.

ARTICLE 20 [CHILDREN DEPRIVED OF THEIR FAMILY ENVIRONMENT]

19. What are the measures being adopted by your organisation in connection with:

• Special protection and assistance to the child who is temporarily or permanently deprived of his or her family environment
• Alternative care for such a child, specifying the available forms of such care - foster placement, adoption or, if necessary, placement in suitable institutions for the care of the child
• Monitoring of the situation of children placed in alternative care.

ARTICLE 19 [ABUSE AND NEGLECT], ARTICLE 39 [INCLUDING PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RECOVERY AND SOCIAL REINTEGRATION]

20. Is your organisation taking any steps to protect the child from all forms of physical and mental violence, injury, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment, exploitation, sexual abuse while in the care of parents, legal guardians or any other person who has care for the child? Also indicate:

• Educational and other measures adopted to promote positive and non-violent forms of discipline, care and treatment of the child
• Any information and awareness raising campaigns to prevent situations of violence, abuse or negligence and to strengthen the system for the child protection.

ARTICLE 6 AND 18 [BASIC HEALTH AND WELFARE]

22. Provide information on the situation of the physically and mentally disabled child and the measures being taken by your organisation to ensure:-

• Child's enjoyment of a full and decent life, in conditions which ensure the child's dignity and self reliance
• Child's enjoyment of his or her rights without discrimination of any kind and prevention, elimination of discriminatory attitudes against him or her
• Promotion of child's active participation in the community
• Child's effective access to education, training, health care and rehabilitation services, preparation for employment and recreation opportunities
• Consideration given to the inclusion of disabled children together with children without disabilities in institutions, services and facilities, including in the education system
• Child's right to special care and steps taken to ensure the extension, subject to available resources, to the eligible child and those responsible for his or her care assistance appropriate to the child's condition and to the circumstances of the parents and others caring for the child
• Possible assistance provided free of charge
• Effective evaluation of the situation of disabled children; development of a system to track and identify disabled children; establishment of monitoring mechanisms; assessment of progress and difficulties encountered; targets for future
• Adequate training for those responsible for the care of disabled children, family and community
• Promote exchange of appropriate information in the field of preventive health care and of medical, psychological and functional treatment of disabled children including dissemination of and access to information concerning method of rehabilitation, education and vocational services.; measures taken by the state to improve their capabilities and skills and widen their experience in these area;
• Provide information on children concerned, including by type of disability, coverage of assistance provided, programmes and services - including education, training, care, rehabilitation, employment and recreation, financial and other resources allocated; provide disaggregated data by gender, age, rural/urban, social and ethnic origin.

ARTICLE 24 [HEALTH AND HEALTH SERVICES]

23. What programmes or initiatives being undertaken taken by your organisation in the area of heath and health services and to ensure that no child is deprived of his or her right to access to such health care services

24. Provide information on any studies or surveys being undertaken by your organisation in the following areas:

• Distribution of both general and primary health services in the rural and urban areas; balance between preventive and curative health care
• Children having access to and benefiting from medical assistance and health care as well as persisting gaps
• Nature and context of the most common diseases and their impact
• Proportion of child population affected by malnutrition - chronic and severe - and lack of clean drinking water
• Risks from environmental pollution and measures adopted to prevent and combat them.
• Proportion of pregnant women who have access to and benefit from pre- and post-natal health care, trained personnel and hospital care and delivery.

• Campaigns, programmes, services, being undertaken by your organisation to provide basic knowledge, information and support to the general population, in particular to parents and children.
• Any initiatives being undertaken to increase food production to ensure household food security
• Programmes or campaigns being undertaken to improve system of education and training of health personnel
• Programmes or campaigns being undertaken to develop preventive health care guidance for parents and family planning education and services.

Also provide information on:

• Programmes or campaigns being undertaken to prevent early pregnancy taking into account specific situations of adolescents, provisions of appropriate information and counselling

26. Provide information on any campaigns, programmes and surveys being undertaken by your organisation to promote health information and education on HIV/AIDS among general population. Also provide information, if any, on:

• The occurrence of HIV infection and AIDS among both general population and children by gender, age, rural/urban area
• Treatment and management provided by your organisation in case of HIV infection and AIDS among children and parents
• Campaigns, programmes, initiatives undertaken to prevent and combat discriminatory attitudes against children infected by HIV/AIDS or whose family/parents have been infected.

27. What are the programmes and initiatives being undertaken by your organisation to abolish all traditional practices prejudicial to the health of children, particularly girls.

28. What activities are being undertaken by your organisation with any financial support from government, other non-government or international agencies to promote and encourage full realisation of the rights recognised. Provide details.

ARTICLE 26, 18, PARA 3 (SOCIAL SECURITY AND CHILD CARE SERVICES AND FACILITIES)

29. Provide information on the initiatives being undertaken by your organisation in the area of social security and childcare services.

ARTICLE 27, PARA 1-3 (STANDARD OF LIVING)

30. Provide information on the initiatives being taken by your organisation to recognise and ensure the rights of every child to standard of living. Also, indicate measures that are being adopted by your organisation in case of need material assistance and support programmes with regard to nutrition, clothing and housing. Also, indicate the nature of assistance and programmes, population addressed by them by gender, age, rural/urban areas, social and ethnic origins, proportion of budget allocated, coverage ensured, priorities and target identification;

ARTICLE 28 (EDUCATION, INCLUDING VOCATIONAL TRAINING AND GUIDANCE)

31. Provide information on:

• Studies or surveys being undertaken by your organisation to estimate the real cost to the family of the child's education and appropriate support provided;
• Initiatives being undertaken by your organisation in the field of non-formal education for children;
• Any initiatives being taken to provide early development and educational services for young children from disadvantaged social group.

32. Provide information on:

• Initiatives being taken by your organisation to encourage regular attendance at school, reduce drop out rates, research, incentive provided to encourage school entrance, regular school attendance and retention, alternatives provided for children who are excluded from school.

Article 29 (AIMS OF EDUCATION)

33. What initiatives are being taken by your organisation in regard to:

• The development of respect for the child's personality, talents and mental and physical abilities to their fullest potential
• The development of respect for the child's parents his or her own cultural identity, language and values
• The preparation of the child for responsible life in a free society, in the spirit of understanding, peace, tolerance, equality of the sexes, and friendship among all peoples, ethnic, national and religious groups and persons of indigenous origin
• The development of respect for the natural environment.

34. Is your organisation providing any type of training to prepare the personnel as mentioned in the above issues.

Article 31 (LEISURE, RECREATION AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES)

35. Provide information on the initiative being taken by your organisation to recognise and ensure the right of the child to rest and leisure; to engage in play and recreational activities appropriate to the age of the child; to participate freely in cultural life and the arts?

36. Provide information on the initiatives taken by your organisation on:

• The cultural, artistic, recreational and leisure activities, programmes or campaigns developed to ensure the enjoyment of the right including in the family, in the school and in the community;
• Relevant data on the children by age, gender, region, rural/urban area, and national, social and ethnic origin;

CHILDREN INVOLVED WITH THE SYSTEM OF ADMINISTRATION OF JUVENILE JUSTICE

ARTICLE 40 (THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUVENILE JUSTICE)

37. Provide information on any studies, surveys, and programmes undertaken by your organisation in the area of juvenile justice.

38. Is your organisation developing training activities for all professionals involved with the system of juvenile justice, including judges, prosecutors, lawyers, law enforcement officials, immigration officers and social workers; on the provision of the convention and other relevant international instruments in the field of juvenile justice?

ARTICLE 39 (PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RECOVERY AND SOCIAL REINTEGRATION OF THE CHILD)

39. Provide information on the initiatives being taken by your organisation to promote the physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of the child involved with the system of the administration of juvenile justice, and to ensure that such recovery and reintegration take place in an environment which fosters the health, self-respect and dignity of the child.

40. Provide information on the programmes and activities being developed by your organisation for the purpose, as well as the education and vocational training provided.

CHILDREN IN SITUATIONS OF EXPLOITATION, INCLUDING PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RECOVERY AND SOCIAL REINTEGRATION

ARTICLE 32 (ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN, INCLUDING CHILD LABOUR)

41. Provide information on the steps taken by your organisation to recognise and ensure the right of the child to be protected from:

• Economic exploitation;
• Performing any work that is likely to be hazardous or to interfere with the child’s Education, or to be harmful to the child’s health or physical mental, spiritual, moral or social development.

42. Provide information on the initiative being taken by your organisation regarding;

• Any preventive and remedial action being undertaken, including information and awareness campaigns, as well as education, in particular compulsory education, and vocational training programmes, to address the situation of child labour both in the formal and informal sector, including as domestic servants, in agriculture or within private family activities;

ARTICLE 33 (DRUG ABUSE)

43. Provide information on the initiative being taken by your organisation in relation to:

• Raising awareness in the general population and amongst children, including through the social system;
• Any measures being taken to assist children and their families, including through counselling, advice and helpless, where appropriate of a confidential nature, and policies and strategies designed to ensure the physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of children concerned;
• Any measures being designed to monitor the incidence of drug abuse of children, as well as their involvement in the illicit production and trafficking of narcotic and psychotropic substances, progress achieved, difficulties encountered and targets set for the future;
• Provide relevant disaggregated data including by age, gender, region, rural/urban area, and social and ethnic origin.

ARTICLE 34 (SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND SEXUAL ABUSE)

44. Provide information on the measures being adopted by your organisation to protect the child from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse.and also to prevent:

• The inducement or coercion of a child to engage in any unlawful sexual activity;
• The exploitative use of children in prostitution or other unlawful sexual practices;
• The exploitative use of children in pornographic performance and materials.

45. Provide information on :

• Awareness and education campaigns being undertaken by your organisation to prevent any form of sexual exploitation or abuse of the child, including campaigns undertaken in co-operation with the media.
• Relevant activities and programmes developed, including of a multidisciplinary nature, to ensure the recovery and reintegration of the child victim of sexual exploitation or abuse, in the light of article 39 of the convention;

• Provide relevant disaggregated data on the children concerned by the implementation of article 34, including by age, gender, region, rural/urban area, and national, social and ethnic origin. Such data should include the number of cases in which a child was used in drug trafficking during the reporting period; the minimum penalty in the law for using children in drug trafficking; and the number of cases of commercial sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, sale of children, abduction of children and violence against children reported during this period.

ARTICLE 35 (SALE, TRAFFICKING AND ABDUCTION)

46. Provide information on awareness and information campaigns that are being carried out by your organisation to prevent their occurrence, including campaigns undertaken in co-operation with the media;

• Any relevant training activities provided to the competent authorities.

ARTICLE 36 (OTHER FORMS OF EXPLOITATION)

47. Provide information on:

• The prevalence of any form of exploitation prejudicial to the child’s welfare;
• Any awareness and information campaigns being launched by your organisation for children, families and the public at large, as well as the involvement of the media;
• Any training activities that are being developed by your organisation for professional groups working with and for children;

48. What measures are being taken by your organization to create an effective mechanism to collect and analyze disaggregated data of all persons under 18 years for all areas covered by the Convention?

49. Please provide information on the type of programmes your organization is currently involved in association with the State Government?

50. Has your organization undertaken any study to determine the socio cultural factors leading to practices like female infanticide, selective abortions and developed strategies to address them?