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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... board of directors are Robert L. Bernstein , chair ; Adrian W. DeWind , vice chair ; Roland Algrant , Lisa Anderson , William Carmichael , Dorothy Cullman , Gina Despres , Irene Diamond , Edith Everett , Jonathan Fanton , James C ...
... board of directors are Robert L. Bernstein , chair ; Adrian W. DeWind , vice chair ; Roland Algrant , Lisa Anderson , William Carmichael , Dorothy Cullman , Gina Despres , Irene Diamond , Edith Everett , Jonathan Fanton , James C ...
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... board comprised of NGO representatives , judges , and lawyers to monitor police stations . Members of the review boards should be adequately trained and provided access to lock - ups and detention registers . Establish a high - level ...
... board comprised of NGO representatives , judges , and lawyers to monitor police stations . Members of the review boards should be adequately trained and provided access to lock - ups and detention registers . Establish a high - level ...
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... board notified police that the homes were vacant and needed to be occupied . On February 1 , 1996 , two foreign tourists were robbed of a camera and $ 2,000 in the bus stand and railway station area . Thirty to forty boys , aged twelve ...
... board notified police that the homes were vacant and needed to be occupied . On February 1 , 1996 , two foreign tourists were robbed of a camera and $ 2,000 in the bus stand and railway station area . Thirty to forty boys , aged twelve ...
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... Board [ Juvenile Justice Board ] , despite its authority , has remained a mute spectator to the pitiable conditions of the homes . The Juvenile Justice Act strongly advocates that children should not be kept in lock - ups as juvenile ...
... Board [ Juvenile Justice Board ] , despite its authority , has remained a mute spectator to the pitiable conditions of the homes . The Juvenile Justice Act strongly advocates that children should not be kept in lock - ups as juvenile ...
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... Board sent a letter to the commission notifying it that a newspaper report in The Hindu stated that Raja had disappeared after being taken into police custody . 125 Upon receiving the letter , the 122 " Custody deaths in India almost ...
... Board sent a letter to the commission notifying it that a newspaper report in The Hindu stated that Raja had disappeared after being taken into police custody . 125 Upon receiving the letter , the 122 " Custody deaths in India almost ...
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Pagina 165 - Any dispute between two or more States Parties concerning the interpretation or application of the present Convention which is not settled by negotiation shall, at the request of one of them, be submitted to arbitration. If within six months from the date of the request for arbitration the parties are unable to agree on the organization of the' arbitration, any one of those parties may refer the dispute to the International Court of Justice by request in conformity with the Statute of the Court.
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Pagina 156 - ... submit the case to its competent authorities for the purpose of prosecution. 2. These authorities shall take their decision in the same manner as in the case of any ordinary offence of a serious nature under the law of that State.
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Pagina 167 - WHEREAS the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom...
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Pagina 168 - Whereas the need for such special safeguards has been stated in the Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child of 1924, and...
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Pagina 167 - Whereas the United Nations has, in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, proclaimed that everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth therein, without distinction of any kind...