HUMAN RIGHTS

TOPIC- HUMAN RIGHTS OF CHILDREN

AND WOMEN
GROUP MEMBERS:
- Pratibha Sonawane 61112
-Pratibha Shikare 61108
-Prachi Parab 61095
-Shubhankar Patti 61098
-Shivendra Jadhav 61082
INTRODUCTION
Rights are not luxuries. Although rights cannot be realized if needs
are not met, simply meeting needs is not enough. The problems
facing vulnerable women and children have immediate, underlying
and structural causes and many have common roots. These could
be discrimination in various forms, including gender bias, unsafe
environments or chronic poverty. The root causes of preventable
death and illness, for example, are often a violation of civil and
political rights. A poor child dies not simply from disease or a
poorly functioning health system. A number of underlying reasons,
including his or her mother’s access to education, health care,
credit, jobs, participation in public life and ultimately power over
food and other resources are root causes of preventable death.
Rights, therefore, cannot be separated from needs.
Children Rights
Children’s rights are human rights. They protect the child as a human
being. As human rights, children’s rights are constituted by fundamental
guarantees and essential human rights:
1 )Children’s rights recognize fundamental guarantees to all human
beings: the right to life, the non-discrimination principle, the right to
dignity through the protection of physical and mental integrity
(protection against slavery, torture and bad treatments, etc.)
2)Children’s rights are civil and political rights, such as the right to
identity, the right to a nationality, etc.
3)Children’s rights are economic, social and cultural rights, such as the
right to education, the right to a decent standard of living, the right to
health, etc.
4)Children’s rights include individual rights: the right to live with his
parents, the right to education, the right to benefit from a protection,
etc.
Children’s rights: rights adapted to children
- Children’s rights take into account the necessity of development of the
child. The children thus have the right to live and to develop suitably
physically and intellectually.

- Children’s rights plan to satisfy the essential needs for a good

development of the child, such as the access to an appropriate
alimentation, to necessary care, to education, etc.
-Children’s rights consider the vulnerable character of the child. They
imply the necessity to protect them. It means to grant a particular
assistance to them and to give a protection adapted to their age and to
their degree of maturity.
-So, the children have to be helped and supported and must be
protected against labor exploitation, kidnapping, and ill-treatment, etc.
 
Child rights in India
India, in its bid to become an ethical labor market to
international corporations in 1991, ratified the United
Nations Convention on the Rights of the Children in 1992.
The Convention stems from Jeb desire to end the
suffering of children, giving them instead a healthy,
happy and safe environment that nurtured them
physically, mentally, and emotionally. These facets find a
strong resonance in the Convention.
 
Child rights go beyond just human rights, which exist to
ensure fair and proper treatment of people across the
world, and promote their well-being. Children, defined as
any person under the age of 18, need more than just
human rights due to a set of unique needs stemming
from their vulnerabilities.
CHILD RIGHTS ARE;
1) The RIGHT to an identity.
2)The RIGHT to Health.
3)The RIGHT to A Family Life.
4)The RIGHT to Education.
5)The RIGHT to be protected from Violence.
6)The RIGHT to be protected from Exploitation.
7)The RIGHT to be protected from Armed Conflict.
8)The RIGHT to an Opinion.
Women Rights
Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights
movement over many years, women and girls around the world are
still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex
slavery. They are refused access to education and political
participation, and some are trapped in conflicts where rape is
perpetrated as a weapon of war. Around the world, deaths related
to pregnancy and childbirth are needlessly high, and women are
prevented from making deeply personal choices in their private
lives. Human Rights Watch is working toward the realization of
women’s empowerment and gender equality—protecting the
rights and improving the lives of women and girls on the ground.
EQUALITY AND EQUITY ;The Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women requires
that women be accorded rights equal to those of men and that
women be able to enjoy all their rights in practice. While
international human rights treaties refer to “equality”, in other
sectors the term “equity” is often used. The term “gender equity”
has sometimes been used in a way that perpetuates stereotypes
about women’s role in society, suggesting that women should be
treated “fairly” in accordance with the roles that they carry
out.This understanding risks perpetuating unequal gender relations
and solidifying gender stereotypes that are detrimental to women.
The Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against
Women has emphasized in its general recommendations and
concluding observations on different countries.
Women Rights
1) Right to equal Pay.
2) Right to Dignity and Decency
3) Right against Workplace Harassment.
4) Right against domestic violence.
5) Right to keep their dignity anonymous.
6) Right to get free legal Aid.
7) Right to not get arrested at night.
8) Right to register virtual complaints.
9) Right against indecent representation.
10) Right against being stalked.
Conclusion on Children
Rights:
-A visible shift from an approach of charity to that of
rendering justice to children by guranteeing their
rights.
-An effective implementation , ground swell of support,
fair environment.
-Alarming concern as children are being misused.
Our social responsibility to take care of the children and
to protect their rights.
-If all the suggestions are taken seriously , India would
be a safer place for the children.
Conclusion on Women Rights;
-Government policies , programs and
services have been instrumental to advance
basic Women’s rights in India.
-However, voice and agency of women are
critical mechanisms for fuller rights
acheivement.
-Transnatioanal civil society needs
counterparts at national level in order to
mobilize action on specific issues.