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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... reason enough to detain them . This abuse violates both Indian domestic law and international human rights standards . Street children are also easy targets . They are young , small , poor , ignorant of their rights and often have no ...
... reason enough to detain them . This abuse violates both Indian domestic law and international human rights standards . Street children are also easy targets . They are young , small , poor , ignorant of their rights and often have no ...
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... reason for detention . The registers should be subject to frequent mandatory review by a judicial magistrate . Enforce payment of compensation for people who have been victims of custodial abuse , as per the Supreme Court decision in ...
... reason for detention . The registers should be subject to frequent mandatory review by a judicial magistrate . Enforce payment of compensation for people who have been victims of custodial abuse , as per the Supreme Court decision in ...
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... reason . A 1992 study sponsored by the Indian Ministry of Labour and UNICEF on the plight of street children in Bombay noted : 31 Shankar Sen. Policing a Changing Society ( Hyderabad : Boys Town Offset Press . 1994 ) . p . 63. ( Note ...
... reason . A 1992 study sponsored by the Indian Ministry of Labour and UNICEF on the plight of street children in Bombay noted : 31 Shankar Sen. Policing a Changing Society ( Hyderabad : Boys Town Offset Press . 1994 ) . p . 63. ( Note ...
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... reasons for the round - up . The act views children working in railway stations as " delinquent juveniles ; " such children are frequently victims of the round - up . In other cases , juvenile boards , the authority designated by the ...
... reasons for the round - up . The act views children working in railway stations as " delinquent juveniles ; " such children are frequently victims of the round - up . In other cases , juvenile boards , the authority designated by the ...
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... reasons children had been sent to remand homes : In Bangalore , the bulk ( 81.5 percent ) of children were sent to remand homes on charges of theft , the second largest group were sent on " doubt " ( 11.3 percent ) . This means that ...
... reasons children had been sent to remand homes : In Bangalore , the bulk ( 81.5 percent ) of children were sent to remand homes on charges of theft , the second largest group were sent on " doubt " ( 11.3 percent ) . This means that ...
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