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IMPHAL, Feb 10: Drawing attention of the social welfare minister, Nameirakpam Loken Singh, and seeking immediate intervention for protection of basic inherent rights of the deprived children in the state in the backdrop of the growing issue of trafficking and crimes against women, the Coalition of Children’s Right to Protection, CCRP, Manipur today submitted a memorandum to the minister.
In the memorandum the CCRP placed a charter of demands to ensure improvement in various sectors working to protects right of the children.
It appeal to the concerned authorities to immediately release the outstanding grant-in-aid amount, which has been pending for the last 10 months (from April, 2009 till date) to restore basic needs including food and education of destitute children sheltering in the eight government-aided children homes in the state besides taking up speedy legal action to book and punish culprits who had recently trafficked 19 children to Chennai and 52 children to Keinyakumari form the state, and also to continue with rescue operations at others possible child trafficking destinations.
It also urged for declaring a comprehensive “state policy for children” providing care and protection to chidren affected by conflict, victims of organized violence and children living with HIV AIDS in the forthcoming state Assembly session.
It also urged the government to announce compensation on humanitarian ground for the late Angom Chanbi and her teenage daughter, A. Menaka, 16, of Phayeng village, who were murdered after gang rape. It further called for sponsoring the educational and basic needs of the three orphaned children left behind by Chandbi and protect the right to life and right to education of the socially and economically deprived orphans of the state.
Further it demanded opening a destitute girls’ home, more shelters homes and after-care organizations at the earliest besides functionalizing the existing observation homes in the state.
It asserted to appoint the required Judicial Magistrate of the existing Juvenile Justice Boards in order to make the JJBs functional.
It also called for the implementation of the Integrated Child Protection Scheme, ICPS, in the state at the earliest with utmost transparency and accountability, ensure trauma and psychological counseling to traumatised children and mental retarded children.
It also asked for raising an operational Juvenile Justice Fund for the state under Juvenile Justice (care and protection of children) Act 2000 (and its amendment enacted in 2006) and provide financial supports to extremely deprived children.
In the memorandum the CCRP placed a charter of demands to ensure improvement in various sectors working to protects right of the children.
It appeal to the concerned authorities to immediately release the outstanding grant-in-aid amount, which has been pending for the last 10 months (from April, 2009 till date) to restore basic needs including food and education of destitute children sheltering in the eight government-aided children homes in the state besides taking up speedy legal action to book and punish culprits who had recently trafficked 19 children to Chennai and 52 children to Keinyakumari form the state, and also to continue with rescue operations at others possible child trafficking destinations.
It also urged for declaring a comprehensive “state policy for children” providing care and protection to chidren affected by conflict, victims of organized violence and children living with HIV AIDS in the forthcoming state Assembly session.
It also urged the government to announce compensation on humanitarian ground for the late Angom Chanbi and her teenage daughter, A. Menaka, 16, of Phayeng village, who were murdered after gang rape. It further called for sponsoring the educational and basic needs of the three orphaned children left behind by Chandbi and protect the right to life and right to education of the socially and economically deprived orphans of the state.
Further it demanded opening a destitute girls’ home, more shelters homes and after-care organizations at the earliest besides functionalizing the existing observation homes in the state.
It asserted to appoint the required Judicial Magistrate of the existing Juvenile Justice Boards in order to make the JJBs functional.
It also called for the implementation of the Integrated Child Protection Scheme, ICPS, in the state at the earliest with utmost transparency and accountability, ensure trauma and psychological counseling to traumatised children and mental retarded children.
It also asked for raising an operational Juvenile Justice Fund for the state under Juvenile Justice (care and protection of children) Act 2000 (and its amendment enacted in 2006) and provide financial supports to extremely deprived children.
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