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Backgrounders
Children : Background & Perspective
India has 375 million children, more than any other country in the world. Their condition has improved in the last five decades, with child survival rates up, school ...
Analysis
Childrearing practices, culture and psychology
Could there be some minimal universal parameters for child rearing that could be considered with culture-specific ones in cases such as the one where two Indian children were taken from their parents by Norwegian child welfare, asks Rakesh Shukla
Features
Anatomy of child starvation deaths
The shocking facts about the maladministration that led to the recent deaths of severely malnourished children in Raichur and Mysore districts of Karnataka. Fifty per cent of Karnataka’s 0-6 age-group suffers from various stages of malnutrition, with many on the verge of death...
Books & Reports
1,500 children saved in one district in two years
Approximately 80% of maternal and infant deaths could be averted if pregnant women and newborns had access to basic healthcare services, says Unicef's State of the World's Children Report 2009. This has been proved in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh, where Unicef and the government ha...
Changemakers
'All out-of-school children must be considered child labour': Shamshad Khan
Winner of Outlook magazine's Best Social Worker of the Year award, Shamshad Khan, director of the Centre for Rural Education and Development Action, is on a mission: to rescue and rehabilitate young children working in the Mirzapur-Bhadohi carpet belt in Uttar Pradesh
