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“School hostels must be registered under JJ Act”

The Manipur Alliance for Child Rights (MACR) with the support from CRY (Child Rights & You) organised the 5th Annual Children’s Meet, 2014, in the Tribal Research Institute Auditorium, Chingmeirong, Imphal West, Manipur on Saturday on the theme ‘Zero Tolerance on all forms of violence against children.’

K. Pradipkumar, MACR convener, delivering the keynote address, stated that all school hostels, including SSA/government-run residential schools, should be registered under Juvenile Justice Act or under a relevant legislation in order to regulate the function of the institutions and to protect the rights of the inmates.

Justifying the theme of the year, he pointed out that due to the indifferent attitude of society, violence had been escalating, depriving children’s undeniable rights.

Dr.T. Meinya MP in his speech emphasised the importance of ICDS anganwadi centres in imparting ECCE and ensuring holistic child rights.

He reiterated that the provisions of the Right to Education Act could be properly implemented with the larger involvement of civil societies and NGOs.

Anganwadi centres

Ashim Ghosh of CRY expressed concern over the slow progress on activation of Anganwadi Centres and appealed for availability for essential devices like growth monitoring charts and weighing machines at the centres. He appealed to policy-makers, service providers and the civil society organisation to act together for effective implementation of child-related Acts, scheme and to ensure protective environment for children in the State. Around 500 children from Ukhrul, Senapati, Chandel, Churachandpur, Thoubal, Bishnupur, Imphal east & west districts, participated and presented colourful cultural items sending the

message of integrity, solidarity and cooperation for ensuring protective environment for children. Children performed Kuki cultural dance, Khoibu cultural dance, Leima jagoi dance and rendered Kom folk songs and Gangte cultural songs.

The motto of the programme was to provide cultural space to showcase the innate talent of children through day-long creative activities.

It also helped bringing communal harmony among the different communities of the State.

Weighing machines were distributed to the children’s collective as gifts to ensure the community-level heath monitoring of children.

Zero Tolerance on all forms of violence against children the theme of the meet

The Sentinel-Assam

Annual Children’s Meet organized

IMPHAL, June 28: Manipur Alliance for Child Rights (MACR) with the support from CRY– Child Rights & You organised the 5th Annual Children’s Meet, 2014 at Tribal Research Institute Auditorium, Chingmeirong, Imphal West, Manipur on the theme – “Zero Tolerance on All forms of Violence against children, come and act together”.

Dr Thokchom Meinya, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha), former Minister, Higher & Technical Education, Manipur was the Chief Guest of the function, H Rupachandra Singh, Joint Secretary (Social Welfare), Government of Manipur was the Guest of Honour and the function was presided by Ashim Kumar Ghosh, Associate General Manager (AGM), CRY– Child Rights & You.

K Pradipkumar, the convener of MACR while giving the key note address stated that all the school boarding and hostels, including SSA/government run residential schools should be registered under JJ Act or a relevant legislation in order to regulate the function of the institutions and to protect the rights of the inmate children. Justifying the theme of the year, he pointed out that due to existing indifferent and tolerable attitude of the society there has been an escalating violent trend depriving the children’s undeniable rights.

Dr T Meinya in his speech emphasised the importance of ICDS Anganwadi centres in imparting ECCE and ensuring holistic child rights. He also reiterated that provisions of Right to Education Act could be properly implemented with larger involvement of civil societies and NGOs.

Ashim Ghosh in his presidential speech shows concern over the slow progress on activation of Anganwadi Centres and appealed for availability for essential devices like growth monitoring charts and weighing machines in the centre. He appealed to the policy makers, service providers and civil society organisation to come and act together for effective implementation of child related Acts, scheme and to ensure protective environment for children in State.

The programme was participated by around 500 children from Ukhrul, Senapati, Chandel, Churachandpur, Thoubal, Bishnupur, Imphal East & West districts and presented colourful cultural items sending the message of integrity, solidarity and cooperation for ensuring protective environment for children. Children performed Kuki cultural dance, kom folk songs, Khoibu cultural dance, Leima jagoi dance, Gangte cultural songs etc.

The motto of the programme was to provide a cultural space to showcase the innate talents of children through day long creative activities. It also helped bringing communal harmony among the different communities of the State.

On the occasion of the events– 10 nos of weighing machines were also distributed to the children’s collective as gifts to ensure the community level heath monitoring of children to detect malnourished cases which has been almost absent in most ICDS centres in the State of Manipur. This was stated in a press release.

Manipur Update

Manipur children’s cultural meet in Imphal

June 28, 2014 | Filed under: Manipur,News | Posted by:

MU NEWS/IMPHAL, June 28 :

The state capital today witnessed the 5th edition of Manipur children’s cultural meet 2014 on Saturday. To attend the children’s meet, as many as 400 children from all the nine districts of the state turned at the tribal research institute auditorium at Chingmeirong here. The meet which was held under the theme ‘zero tolerance on all forms of violence against children, come and act together’ was organised by Manipur Alliance for Child Rights(MACR) Imphal with the support of CRY-Child Rights and You Kolkata.

Manipur’s Lok Sabha MP Dr Thokchom Meinya Singh, Associate general manager CRY Ashim Ghosh and official from state social welfare department attended the formal inaugural function of the day long cultural meet this morning which is scheduled to witness a series of cultural and dance performances by the children from all the districts.

Speaking about the objective of organising the meet, convenor of MACR Keisham Pradipkumar said that the cultural meet was organised to exchange cultural activities among the different communities settling in the state and also to explore the hidden talents of the children. In a conflict ridden state like Manipur, we need to organise such event once in a while so that the children can been provide their opportunity to play and enjoy with the counterparts from the across the state.

Imphal Free Press

Zero tolerance of all violence against children a must: MACR

IMPHAL, June 28 : The 5th Children’s Cultural Meet 2014 on the theme ‘Zero Tolerance on all forms of Violence against Children, come and act together’ was held at the Tribal Research Institute Auditorium, Chingmeirong, Imphal West, organised by Manipur Alliance for Child Rights (MACR).

Dr. Thokchom Meinya, Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, attended as the chief guest, Mairembam Prithviraj Singh, Parliamentary Secretary, Youth Affairs and Sports and Tourism as the president, Ashim Ghosh, associate general manager, development support, CRY- child rights and YOU, Kolkata as the guest of honour.

Keisham Pradeep, Convenor, MACR said that envisaging the society, being represented by key stake holders and individual citizenries, still largely remains complacent and fairly tolerable with the level of ever growing up violent incidents, making countless number of children the innocent victims. He asserted that the same trend will go up unabated, unless the people wipe away the deep rooted attitude of indifferent and escapism from the people’s heart and head as well. He further continued that realising the crucial need at the moment is nothing but revitalise and re-sharpen up the social institutions to fight for child rights.

He said that the main objectives of the children’s meet 2014, is to encourage participation by the children from different communities of the state. The daylong joyful mega cultural meet is not only to provide the young children a space to showcase their hidden talents with full of creativity, but also to bring a significant bonding that help to realise an eternal communal harmony and peaceful co-existence of different indigenous peoples cutting across all sections.

Dr Meinya said that torturing of children and child labour should not be tolerated and should be eradicated because children are the foundation of a good nation. He further said that people hardly give importance to the Anganwadi, which is a wrong idea. He further said that Anganwadi should be equally given importance and appealed the teachers, staffs and members to keep continuing the good work as a sacrifice for the children. He also said that the Integrated Child Development Service (ICDS) project is important for the pregnancy mother and the child so the concern Departments should fulfil the objectives by providing the facilities on time.

The sangai Express

By : Our Staff Reporter

MACR meet

IMPHAL, Jun 29: The Manipur Alliance for Child Rights (MACR) with support from CRY- Child Rights & You on Saturday organised the 5th Annual children’s Meet, 2014 at Tribal Research Institute Auditorium, Chingmeirong, Imphal West, on the theme “Zero Tolerance on All Forms of Violence Against Children: Come and Act Together”, conveyed a press release.

MP Dr T Meinya Singh, was the chief guest of the function while H Rupachandra Singh, Joint Secretary (Social Welfare), was the guest of honour.

The function was presided by Ashim Kumar Ghosh, Associate General Manager (AGM), CRY- Child Rights & You, it said.

MACR convener K Pradipkumar while giving the key note address stated that all the school boardings and hostels, including SSA and Government run residential schools should be registered under Juvenile Justice Act or other relevant legislation so as to regulate the functioning of the institutions and also to protect the rights of the inmate children.

Ashim Ghosh in his presidential speech expressed concern over the slow progress on activation of Anganwadi centres and appealed for availability for essential devices like growth monitoring charts and weighing machines in the centres. He further urged the policy makers, service providers and civil society organisations to come and act together for effective implementation of child related Acts and schemes so as to ensure protective environment for children in the State.

The program was participated by around 500 children from Ukhrul, Senapati, Chandel, Churachandpur, Thoubal, Bishnupur, Imphal East & West districts and the children presented various colourful cultural items. Children performed Kuki cultural dance, Kom folk songs, Khoibu cultural dance, Leima jagoi dance, Gangte cultural songs etc.

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5th Children's Cultural Meet 2014

HNS/IMPHAL, June 28: Under the aegis of Child Rights & You (CRY) Kolkata, Manipur Alliance for Child Rights (MACR), New Checkon organized the 5th Children's Cultural Meet 2014 at the auditorium of Tribal Research Institute, Chingmeirong here today.

The meet held under the theme 'Zero Tolerance on All Forms of Violence against Children: Come & Act Together' was attended by MP Dr Th Meinya; Ashim Ghosh, associate general manager of CRY and H Rupachandra Singh, Joint Secretary of Social Welfare Department as Chief Guest, President and Guest of Honor respectively.

Starting of with an opening song by inmates of MMKS Children's Home, Dewlahland, children from different parts of the State presented various cultural items on the occasion.

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THE CHILD RIGHTS MANIFESTO

Today, unseen, ignored, almost half of all Indian children under
the age of five are underweight, millions die each year of easily preventable
diseases and 8 million children do not go to school. In the 21st century, in
one of the world's fastest growing economies, this is unacceptable.

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THE CHILD RIGHTS
MANIFESTO
16th General
Elections 2014
CRY - Child Rights and You calls on all political parties to
become campaigner of rights of all children in India.

India, with about 430 million children, has the world’s largest
child population with every sixth child in the world today referring to India
as ‘home’. Although children constitute over a third of India’s population,
they are accorded a low priority in national policy and governance decisions.
CRY urges political parties and governments in power to take heed and ‘Put children first’ and include the following commitment
suggestions that can impact over a third of this nation’s population, when
designing their own election agenda.
• Harmonize the age
definition for all child-related legislations in line with National Policy for
Children 2013 where child is any person below the age of eighteen years.
• Ensure Right to
Education is fully exercised as fundamental right and Amend and expand the
scope of Right to Free and Compulsory Education (RTE) Act, 2009 such that: All Children between 6-14 years
get enrolled, regularly attend Elementary
school and avail quality education. Also, all children from 0-6 years and 14-18 years should come under the purview of the Act.
• Strengthen
implementation of Integrated Child Development Scheme (ICDS) such that all six services viz
Supplementary nutrition, Health Check-ups, Immunization, Nutrition & Health
Education, Pre-school non-formal education and referral services are
effectively functioning. Also ensure that there is an adequate investment
carried out in decentralized planning, universal coverage and trained
personnel.
• Reduce child mortality
and morbidity and ensure that no child remains malnourished through carrying out sustained efforts
towards complete immunization, regular health check-ups and growth monitoring,
proper nutritional support and health counselling of all children under 18
years.

• Declare access to
quality primary healthcare a Fundamental Right in the Constitution of India and strengthen Primary Health Care
systems and child health amongst the urban poor.
• Ensure Food security at
household level for all marginalized groups of people with proper implementation of the National
Food Security Act, 2013 and consider amendments (i) increasing the
protein/fat intake for pregnant mothers and children to 20-25 gms (according to
Supreme court order) instead of current provision of 18-20 gms (ii) including services such as immunization, health check-ups etc
which have been part of the ICDS as part of the Act (iii) making provision of supplementary
nutrition for children in the14-18 age group.
• Amend the Child Labour
(Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 2012: to abolish all forms of child labour by removing the distinction
between hazardous and non-hazardous categories of work for all children up to
18 years of age.
• Invest adequately in
ensuring protection for children by: (i) implementing policies and programme that protect children from
abuse, violence and exploitation; (ii) investing in
appropriate referral services for the recovery, rehabilitation and
reintegration of victims of abuse, violence and exploitation; investing in
creating a cadre of trained professional (iii) creating robust
monitoring of implementation of child protection mechanisms, schemes and
policies (iv) creating a proper database for child
trafficking, street children, missing children and ensuring a fully functional
newly developed child tracking system – ‘Track child’.
• Ensure Gender Parity,
Social Equity, and the rights of Children with disabilities with providing equal opportunities for all
social groups – SC, ST, Minority group and urban deprived groups. Become more responsive
to needs of girl children and children with disabilities.
• Allocate sufficient
Budget for Children (BfC) allocations by
increasing the allocation from 4.64% to at least 10% of total Union Budget. Also introduce a child budget component in the budget of all
allied Ministries and ensure effective National, State and District-level
management and utilization of outlays/ budgets.

The best interest of the child needs to be put at the centre of
all policy, legislation and practice affecting their young lives. India’s one
third population deserves demonstration of commitment as a nation. It calls for
action to express zero tolerance towards violation of children’s rights so that
every child attains happy, healthy and creative childhood.

MACR- Manipur Alliance for Child Rights- Charter of demand in Assembly elcetion, 2012

1. A strong political commitment to find out a political solution in place of repressive militarisation policy, to end the
long dawn armed conflict, that has been bringing out xtraordinary denial of the right to survival, development, and
protection of all the children in Manipur, including the children living with HIV/AIDS, by repealing the AFSPA which gives impunity extra judicial powers to the army.

2. A holistic state policy for ensuring safe and secured environment, where each and every individual could enjoy the equal opportunity for economic, social and cultural development.

3. A mass employment policy for youths, providing employment opportunity within the state, not merely in state security forces but in welfare and other allied sectors.

4. Setting up of State Commission for Protection of Child Rights with the full strength of the members, free from any political interference, where independence of the commission members while providing justice to the aggrieved children is upheld.

5. A comprehensive State Children’s Policy, under which children are provided with all the entitled rights of survival,
development, protection and participation without any discrimination.

6. A commitment to announce the education institutions as completely free zone, free from any political interference, corruption, military occupation, economic hindrance, while
ensuring meaningful free and compulsory education to children.

7. A commitment for providing adequate budget for schools’ infrastructural development, with special provisions for accessing to barrier free for children with disability, creating an enabling environment, so- that teachers could attend the schools without any hindrance, adequate support and monitoring mechanism for complete implementation of Mid Day Meal scheme in Government Schools and Aided Private Schools in the state.

8. A commitment for adequate budget support for nfrastructural improvement of health institutions at Panchayat, Block and District level, accessible provisions
for institutional delivery in the PHCs with proper pre and ante natal care facilities.

9. A commitment to make all ICDS centres, accessible and functional, ensuring additional nutritional support to the Children Living with HIV/AIDS by linking with the existing
ICDS centres.

10. Commitment for timely disbursement of fund to the
Government sponsored children homes, proper implementation of Integrated Child Protection Scheme (ICPS). Opening of Girls Shelter homes and Girls Children Homes
in the state on priority basis.

11. To set up Integrated Trauma Counselling cum Life skill Centres in all districts, for victims of child trafficking, rape,
conflict inflicted children, and other Child in Need of Care and
Protection and Juvenile in Conflict with
Law.

12. A commitment to ensure regular supply of safe
drinking water and uninterrupted power supply to every village and household, by acknowledging that without regular water and electricity supply, realisation of basic rights including right to life, right to education, right to health and development are not possible.

CRY- CHILD RIGHTS and YOU appeals to the people of Manipur on the event of Assembly election

1. Political and social stability in the state where people can be engaged in peaceful social and cultural life. Each and every individual, especially children could feel secure and protected. There must be ample opportunity for children and the youth to enjoy a happy and healthy life.
2. Children should be completely immunised at the community level. Government health services must reach every community so that each and every child can access basic Government health services.
3. Children below 6 years must be enrolled in ICDS centres and must get a midday meal along with additional food nutrient support. ICDS centres must be opened everyday for the children.
4. HIV positive children must get additional nutritional support, regular health check ups and ART treatment. Families of HIV positive children must get additional economic support from the state.
5. All children must get free and compulsory education at the community level. Government schools must be easily accessible and should have properly trained and qualified teachers.
6. Children must not be trafficked; it is the responsibility of the state to be alert on the issue of child trafficking, and ensure the protection of children at the community level.
7. All efforts must be made to rescue and rehabilitate trafficked children into society and through Government sponsored homes/institutions.
8. Children who are engaged as child labourers or as domestic workers must be rescued by the state and rehabilitated through proper legal actions by the state authority.

CRY- Child Rights & You Charter of demand on the occassion of 10th ManipurAssemble election

1. All political parties should commit to ensuring a safe and secured social environment, where each and every individual, especially children can enjoy a peaceful and healthy life; all individuals must get equal opportunity for economic, social and cultural development.
2. All political parties should commit to setting up a State Commission for Child Rights to protect the rights of children in the state. The Commission should be kept free from any political interference.
3. All political parties should commit to drawing up a clear-cut policy for children at the state level, where children will be provided with the rights to survival, development, protection and participation.
4. All political parties should commit to announce all educational institutions as zones free from political unrest, and ensure free and compulsory education to all the children.
5. All political parties should commit to allocate adequate budgetary provisions for building basic infrastructure for schools, with special provisions for disabled children.
6. All political parties should commit to make provisions for adequate budget support to develop infrastructure of health institutions at Panchayat, Block and District level. They must ensure that all children in the state can avail of free Government health services.
7. Long-term conflict has resulted in the unprecedented denial of the right to health, survival and development for all children in Manipur, including HIV positive children. The government should push for a permanent end to the armed conflict as it is one of the major reasons behind the poor access to healthcare.