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Telegram, Paytm Face Criminal Case Over Child Sex Abuse Content
Hyderabad-based child rights activist Sunitha Krishnan has filed a police complaint against messaging app Telegram and digital payment apps PhonePe and Paytm for allegedly abetting in the sale of child sex abuse material, or CSAM.
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Chennai-Based Child Rights Advocate Wins US' Iqbal Masih Award
Ms Natarajan has worked throughout her career as a lawyer and activist to apply rights-based approaches to child labour.
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Child Rights Activist Achyutha Rao Dies Of COVID-19 In Hyderabad Hospital
Prominent child rights activist Achyutha Rao died Wednesday afternoon after losing his battle with the COVID-19 virus at a private hospital in Hyderabad
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Rights Body For Police Inquiry On Activist Posing Semi-Nude In Front Of Children
The child rights body NCPCR on Thursday asked Kerala police to conduct an inquiry in the case of an activist who posed semi-nude in front of her minor children.
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16-Year-Old Girl Married To 23-Year-Old In Telangana
A 16-year-old girl in Telangana was married to a 23-year-old man on June 1, prompting child rights activists to demand penal action against the priest, the bride and groom's parents and the groom.
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Academicians, Activists Urge PM Modi To Safeguard Child Rights During And After COVID-19 Pandemic
The memorandum sent through the Right to Education (RTE) forum recommended immediate and necessary actions to ensure child rights are protected to effectively tackle issues like out of school children, child labour and child trafficking.
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"There Is Nothing More Disgraceful": Kailash Satyarthi On JNU Violence
Noble laureate and child right activist Kailash Satyarthi on Tuesday termed the incident "shameful" and "disgraceful".
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"J&K High Court Report Doesn't Support Statement": Top Court To Activists
Claims the Jammu and Kashmir High Court is inaccessible are not supported by a report from the Chief Justice of that court, the Supreme Court said today, in an observation that comes child rights activists claimed a lack of access on Monday
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"Will Visit Srinagar Myself": Chief Justice Reacts To Claim On High Court
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi today said he would visit Jammu and Kashmir, if needed, to check on allegations by a child rights activist that it was difficult accessing the High Court there amid security restrictions that have been in place since August 5, when the centre ended special status to the state.
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"Godse Killed Gandhi, Pragya Killed His Soul", Says Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi today hit out at BJP leader Pragya Singh Thakur for her comments that Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, was a "desk bhakt (patriot)". The 65-year-old child rights activist posted a message on Twitter warning the nation that comments by people like Pragya Thakur were "killing the soul of In...
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"Tamil Nadu Police Not Filing Cases Under Sex Assault Law": Child Rights Activists
Child rights campaigners in Coimbatore district have accused the police of not invoking the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) against the accused in four cases of sexual abuse.
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Teacher Strips Minors For Coming Late To Andhra School, Video Goes Viral
A clip of six students being forced to stand naked inside the compound of an Andhra Pradesh school as punishment for turning up late for class has gone viral on the social media, spurring protests by child rights activists. The video of the incident, which occurred in Chitoor district, was shot from the window of an adjacent school.
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10-Year-Old Differently Abled Girl Allegedly Fed Soap At Hyderabad Home
Sometimes hell can be inside a home, invisible to the world outside. This is the heartrending story of a 10-year-old mentally challenged child who her own parents admit, were trying to get rid of.NDTV had got information about the tragic story of unfortunate abuse of the child by her own family and child rights activist Achyutha Rao said he had goo...
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Death Penalty For Child Rape 'Populist Measure', Says Justice AP Shah
Criticised over the recent spate of rapes of minors, the government may have introduced capital punishment through an executive order but not everyone seems convinced that's the right step forward. Among them former chief justice of Delhi High Court AP Shah, some lawyers, child rights activists and families of three child survivors of sexual abuse ...
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Prime Mum-ister: New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern Pregnant With First Child
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday she was pregnant with her first child, prompting an outpouring of support from women's rights groups and labour activists as she declared "I'll be a prime minister and a mum".
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Telegram, Paytm Face Criminal Case Over Child Sex Abuse Content
Hyderabad-based child rights activist Sunitha Krishnan has filed a police complaint against messaging app Telegram and digital payment apps PhonePe and Paytm for allegedly abetting in the sale of child sex abuse material, or CSAM.
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Chennai-Based Child Rights Advocate Wins US' Iqbal Masih Award
Ms Natarajan has worked throughout her career as a lawyer and activist to apply rights-based approaches to child labour.
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Child Rights Activist Achyutha Rao Dies Of COVID-19 In Hyderabad Hospital
Prominent child rights activist Achyutha Rao died Wednesday afternoon after losing his battle with the COVID-19 virus at a private hospital in Hyderabad
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Rights Body For Police Inquiry On Activist Posing Semi-Nude In Front Of Children
The child rights body NCPCR on Thursday asked Kerala police to conduct an inquiry in the case of an activist who posed semi-nude in front of her minor children.
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16-Year-Old Girl Married To 23-Year-Old In Telangana
A 16-year-old girl in Telangana was married to a 23-year-old man on June 1, prompting child rights activists to demand penal action against the priest, the bride and groom's parents and the groom.
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Academicians, Activists Urge PM Modi To Safeguard Child Rights During And After COVID-19 Pandemic
The memorandum sent through the Right to Education (RTE) forum recommended immediate and necessary actions to ensure child rights are protected to effectively tackle issues like out of school children, child labour and child trafficking.
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"There Is Nothing More Disgraceful": Kailash Satyarthi On JNU Violence
Noble laureate and child right activist Kailash Satyarthi on Tuesday termed the incident "shameful" and "disgraceful".
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"J&K High Court Report Doesn't Support Statement": Top Court To Activists
Claims the Jammu and Kashmir High Court is inaccessible are not supported by a report from the Chief Justice of that court, the Supreme Court said today, in an observation that comes child rights activists claimed a lack of access on Monday
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"Will Visit Srinagar Myself": Chief Justice Reacts To Claim On High Court
Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi today said he would visit Jammu and Kashmir, if needed, to check on allegations by a child rights activist that it was difficult accessing the High Court there amid security restrictions that have been in place since August 5, when the centre ended special status to the state.
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"Godse Killed Gandhi, Pragya Killed His Soul", Says Kailash Satyarthi
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Kailash Satyarthi today hit out at BJP leader Pragya Singh Thakur for her comments that Nathuram Godse, who assassinated Mahatma Gandhi, was a "desk bhakt (patriot)". The 65-year-old child rights activist posted a message on Twitter warning the nation that comments by people like Pragya Thakur were "killing the soul of In...
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"Tamil Nadu Police Not Filing Cases Under Sex Assault Law": Child Rights Activists
Child rights campaigners in Coimbatore district have accused the police of not invoking the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) against the accused in four cases of sexual abuse.
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Teacher Strips Minors For Coming Late To Andhra School, Video Goes Viral
A clip of six students being forced to stand naked inside the compound of an Andhra Pradesh school as punishment for turning up late for class has gone viral on the social media, spurring protests by child rights activists. The video of the incident, which occurred in Chitoor district, was shot from the window of an adjacent school.
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10-Year-Old Differently Abled Girl Allegedly Fed Soap At Hyderabad Home
Sometimes hell can be inside a home, invisible to the world outside. This is the heartrending story of a 10-year-old mentally challenged child who her own parents admit, were trying to get rid of.NDTV had got information about the tragic story of unfortunate abuse of the child by her own family and child rights activist Achyutha Rao said he had goo...
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Death Penalty For Child Rape 'Populist Measure', Says Justice AP Shah
Criticised over the recent spate of rapes of minors, the government may have introduced capital punishment through an executive order but not everyone seems convinced that's the right step forward. Among them former chief justice of Delhi High Court AP Shah, some lawyers, child rights activists and families of three child survivors of sexual abuse ...
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Prime Mum-ister: New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern Pregnant With First Child
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Friday she was pregnant with her first child, prompting an outpouring of support from women's rights groups and labour activists as she declared "I'll be a prime minister and a mum".
