Police Abuse and Killings of Street Children in IndiaHuman Rights Watch, 1996 - 189 pagini At least eighteen million children live or work on the streets of India, laboring as porters in railway stations or bus terminals, as ragpickers, and as vendors of food, tea, or handmade articles. These street children are routinely subjected to arbitrary and illegal detention, torture, and extortion, and on occassion, murder at the hands of police who engage in these violations of international and Indian law with impunity. |
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... Bangalore : A Situational Analysis ( NOIDA : Government of India , 1992 ) , p . 2 : Street children are those for whom the street ( in the widest sense of the word , i.e. unoccupied dwellings , wasteland , etc. ) more than their family ...
... Bangalore : A Situational Analysis ( NOIDA : Government of India , 1992 ) , p . 2 : Street children are those for whom the street ( in the widest sense of the word , i.e. unoccupied dwellings , wasteland , etc. ) more than their family ...
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... Bangalore , Bombay , Delhi , and Madras . Of the one hundred children interviewed , sixty complained of police abuse in the form of detentions , beatings , extortion , or verbal abuse . All the children interviewed reported a fear of ...
... Bangalore , Bombay , Delhi , and Madras . Of the one hundred children interviewed , sixty complained of police abuse in the form of detentions , beatings , extortion , or verbal abuse . All the children interviewed reported a fear of ...
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... Bangalore has 45.000 street children . These estimates are based on the 1981 Census of India and must be considered significantly low in 1996. Representatives of the Center for Concern for Child Labour , a nongovernmental organization ...
... Bangalore has 45.000 street children . These estimates are based on the 1981 Census of India and must be considered significantly low in 1996. Representatives of the Center for Concern for Child Labour , a nongovernmental organization ...
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... Bangalore , many are migrant construction workers who were promised work by agents and subcontractors for construction companies , but who were abandoned by the construction companies and their agents once the work was completed . In ...
... Bangalore , many are migrant construction workers who were promised work by agents and subcontractors for construction companies , but who were abandoned by the construction companies and their agents once the work was completed . In ...
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... ( Bangalore , Bombay . Calcutta . Delhi , Madras ) . The same year , the United Nations estimated that the population of children in these five cities was 8.919.474 . which would mean there was one arrest for every 10.746 children . The ...
... ( Bangalore , Bombay . Calcutta . Delhi , Madras ) . The same year , the United Nations estimated that the population of children in these five cities was 8.919.474 . which would mean there was one arrest for every 10.746 children . The ...
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