Media Watch - Nithari: Whose children where they?

New law to ensure against repeat of Noida child killings
The proposed law provides protection against sexual abuse as stipulated under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Sexual offences in the draft bill include sodomy or manipulation of the child’s body for penetration, oral sex, fondling, display of private parts and exposing him/her to pornography.

Whose children were they?
And who will acknowledge that in some way each one of us was responsible for what happened to the children of Nithari village?

India orders high-level probe into child killings
India ordered a high-level probe on Wednesday into the discovery of skulls and bones of at least 17 people, many of them children, at a house outside New Delhi which police say is a gruesome case of serial killing.

80% of India's districts have declining sex ratios
India already abysmal sex ratio figures are getting worse by the day, with 80% of its districts recording declining child sex ratios since 1991, as thousands of girl-children are killed before or at birth.

Poor kids appeal to Prez to ensure safety
In a memorandum submitted to the President, 'Badhte Kadam', an organisation of street children asked the government to ensure the effective implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) regulations.

NHRC raps Delhi Government for Child labour
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Chief Secretary and Secretary, Labour Department, NCT of Delhi to respond to a news published in a leading English daily stating that children are being employed at a number of places in Delhi, despite prohibition.