Child Rights Centre Chanakya National Law University, Patna cky vf/kdkj ok.kh% CNLU Child Rights Bulletin Newsletter Published by CRC Inaugural Issue/March 2019 EDITORIAL BOARD VICE-CHANCELLOR'S MESSAGE Patron in Chief Justice Smt. Mridula Mishra Vice Chancellor, CNLU, Patna Patron Shri Manoranjan Prasad Srivastava (Retd. District Judge) Registrar CNLU, Patna Editor in Chief Ms. Sneha Centre Coordinator, CRC, CNLU, Patna Managing cum Executive Editor Ms. Sugandha Faculty Coordinator, CRC, CNLU, Patna Editorial Advisory Board Dr. Fr. Peter Ladis.F Assistant Professor of Law, CNLU, Patna Dr. Vijay Kumar Vimal REGISTRAR'S MESSAGE Lecturer of Law, CNLU, Patna Ms. Nandita S. Jha Lecturer of Law, CNLU, Patna Ms. Sushmita Singh Teacher Associate, CNLU, Patna Mr. Vijayant Sinha Teacher Associate, CNLU, Patna Ms. Pooja Srivastava, Teacher Associate, CNLU, Patna Associate Editor Mr. Chandan Kumar Sinha Programme Coordinator CRC, CNLU, Patna Mr. Shivjee Prasad Senior Library Assistant, CNLU, Patna Ms. Kumari Amrita Senior Library Assistant, CNLU, Patna CRC-A VISION FOR THE CHILDREN OF BIHAR Proposed to be a specialized research Keeping in line with what Shri Vijay law and practice in such a way that centre to assist the different ensures the rights provided to the stakeholders in protection and children under the Constitution, CRC, development of child rights, Child SDGs and other normative frameworks. Rights Centre (CRC) was inaugurated on 20th November, 2018 by Shri Vijay Kumar Chaudhary, speaker of Bihar Legislative Assembly. The event was graced with the presence of Hon'ble Justice Smt. Mridula Mishra (Rtd, Patna High Court) Vice Chancellor, Chaudhary said, CRC is a research CNLU, Shri Manoranjan Prasad centre striving for identication of Srivastava (Retd. District Judge), child right issues and development of Registrar, CNLU, and many dignitaries comprehensive child right laws. In a Our crusade, to achieve the proper from UNICEF. time when the state has been shaken by r e c o g n i t i o n a n d e f f e c t i v e the developments of the Muzaffarpur implementation of the rights of child, Shelter home case, it is felt that there is must start from our own institution. need of more vigilance to protect the We aim to integrate teaching, research, cause of the children. The centre will and eld action on child rights within act as a protector of the constitutional CNLU and to impact the discourse on rights of the children. The centre is child rights, the legal education at determined to engage with child rights CNLU and to develop a cadre of from multidisciplinary perspective trained child rights professionals. and to provide integrated technical Apart from this, the Centre will devise At the occasion of Inauguration, Shri support to different layers of approaches to use the human right Vijay Kumar Chaudhary asked the institutional governance at local, state institutions and quasi-judicial concerned departments and civil and national level for protection of institutions such as Child Welfare society organisations to identify the child rights. Committee in a way to ensure justice basic requirements of children and each child. This will be achieved prepare a comprehensive plan for through academic collaboration, safeguarding their rights. He further outreach programs, research, said, “In several cases, the protectors of children's right become their predators for serving their own vested interest. Intellectuals must remain vigilant against people or organizations playing The Child Rights Centre aims to serve as an academic and research support available at the disposal of the institutions involved in child rights organizing conferences, seminars, protection. The centre strives to evolve workshops, symposiums, etc. on and support effective delivery and issues of child rights and other response system for children, their appropriate interventions on child families and communities. The vision rights law specically in the state of with the lives of the innocent children.” of the Centre is to contribute to policy, Bihar. 1 Achieving any sort of success is not possible, unless and until you have a pre-dened strategy. We at CRC have a clearly dened strategy to achieve the goal of effective implementation of the Child Rights. Strategies to achieve our goals are Human Rights Approach : We Building Partnership : The centre Inter-disciplinary Approach : To advocate child rights as a human rights aims to create network and alliances achieve the goal we seek to adopt an issue and promote commitment and with all the stake holders and approach which cuts through various accountability among stake holders in institutions that are involved in d i s c i p l i n e s . To i m p r o v e t h e delivering child rights as their primary enforcement of child right in such a enforcement of child rights we will obligation recognizing respecting, and way to harness our partnership to carry out studies across various elds enforcing the UN CRC. i m p r o v e t h e l a w a n d p o l i c y and disciplines to contribute to law, environment relating to child. policy and practice on child rights. Research : The centre seeks to Advocacy : We advocate change in undertake various kinds of research in child rights through the law review and order to review the existing laws of the by proposing best mechanism for state and also to carry out research in implementation of child rights. We unexplored areas and propose new thus want the government and laws also. authorities to be sensitive about the issue of the child rights. At Child Rights Centre, we are mainly engaged in three kinds of activities. We aim for academic enrichment of the students by providing them opportunities to understand the issue at the ground level through the means of exposure visits and internships with child rights institutions. We aim at capacity building of various stake holders in a way such that we can prepare a cadre of people who are trained in child laws. Apart from this the most important part of our work is research and advocacy, through which we aim to carry out research with perspectives which are still unexplored in eld of child rights and thereby promote the issue of child rights in the society an important and critical aspect of society. The three pillars of our work are:- Academic for Students Capacity Building Research and Advocacy l Socio-legal events at adopted l Design appropriate modules, l Documentation of various best villages. design courses and prepare practices, case law l Internships with child rights appropriate learning material for l Empirical, exploratory, action insitutions (JJB, CWCW, Labour various stake holders for training research on various child rights Deptt., BsCPCR etc) and dissemination. issues in Bihar l Supports, organize symposium, l Provide support to child guidance l Publication of Annual Journal seminars, presentations, workshop clinics l Publication of Bi-annual news on child protection. l Course/Curriculum to offer post letter l Introduction of an option module Graduate Diploma on regular l Review of existing laws and rules, on child rights /Juvenile justice in continuing education and on line policies relating to child rights and the University Curriculum courses on child rights, Legal and suggestions for amendment, l Publication of Bi annual newsletter Psychological counseling and drafting of new rules, guidelines and annual jorunal in which guidance etc for PLVs, CWPOs, etc students may contribute CJPUs, CWC members etc. l Empirical Research to gather l Training Programs for various empirical evidence on the stake holders in child rights, functioning of various children including the police ofcers, related institutions and judges, JJB, CWC, CWPO, CJPUs l Advocacy in that regard, building school teachers, non teaching staff, n e t w o r k s w i t h N G O S a n d care homes sarpanch panch, etc preparing documents for advocacy 2 Dissemination Workshop on 'Ending Violence in Childhood : Global Report 2017' Date- 9th January, 2019 Three out of every four children has Violence in Childhood: Global Report in many cases can leave them faced a form of domestic violence or 2017, was organized by Child Rights devastated. the other in previous one year. It is an Centre, CRC at CNLU on 9th January, irony that when in 2019 we will be 2019. Hon'ble Justice Smt. Mridula Mishra observing 30th anniversary of the delivered the welcome address and United Nation's Convention on Rights shared her own old memory related to of Children (UN CRC), but cases of fear of parents in her young age. She violence against children are talked about the not-so-good widespread. The issue need urgent implantation of good laws for child protection. The cases of violence attention of different stakeholders in against children are not only limited to order to prevent cases of violence a single place but takes place against kids. everywhere. According to her, the 'Know violence in Childhood', an The event was chaired by Hon'ble absence of free and open relation independent global learning initiative Justice Smt. Mridula Mishra (Rtd, between parents and children is a major has done an extremely detailed Patna High Court) Vice Chancellor, reason for a kid to take a wrong step. She asks for translation of the report in research in the issue of childhood CNLU. The event was also graced local language so as to increase the violence, the outcome of which is the with the presence of Hon'ble Mr. information dissemination. 'Ending Violence in Childhood: Justice Abhijit Sinha (Chairman, Bihar State Law Commission ), Sri Global Report 2017'. The report Registrar Shri Manoranjan Prasad Sunil Dutt Mishra (Member delved into different aspects of Srivastava, said that these kind of Secretary, Bihar State Legal Services childhood violence and brought out events and seminars should not only v e r y e n r i c h i n g i n f o r m a t i o n .