Child Rights
Should courts categorically examine all possible ameliorative measures, before denying a Hague Convention petition for return of a child to a foreign country? SCOTUS answers
Supreme Court of the United States: While deciding the instant matter related to the international custody of a child which further involved
Ker HC | Husband harasses wife, portrays her as a psychiatric patient; HC slams Child Right Commission for directing psychiatric treatment of wife without any medical assessment
Kerala High Court: The Division Bench of K.Vinod Chandran and C.Jayachandran, JJ., slammed the Kerala State Commission for Child Rights for directing
Differentiating between married and unmarried fathers in relation to conferring a surname on a child, amounts to unjustified and unfair discrimination on the grounds of marital status, sex and gender
Constitutional Court of South Africa: While deciding the constitutional validity of S. 10 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act of 1992,
Additional term prescribed for Member/Chairperson under Rule 6 of NCPCR vide NCPCR (Amendment) Rules, 2021
The Central Government makes National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (Amendment) Rules, 2021 to amend the National Commission for Protection of
SCOTUS | Whether Philadelphia’s refusal to contract with a Catholic agency for providing foster care services unless they agree to certify same-sex couples as foster parents violates the First Amendment?
Supreme Court of The United States: While looking into the question that whether the city of Philadelphia violated the First Amendment by
Pat HC | Sensitize judicial officers towards Child rights; HC urges Chief Justice
Patna High Court: While addressing the issue of minors being put to observational homes in routine manner in spite of them (minors)
Dataveillance and its implications on child rights
by Divya Tiwari†
Know Your Rights| Right to education
Under the Constitution This right guarantees free and compulsory education for children between the age of 6 to 14 years in India under
SC issues notice in plea seeking regulation of social media profile verification; minors’ access and circulation of obscene material. Read what the PIL states
Supreme Court: The 3-judge bench of SA Bobde, CJ and AS Bopanna and V. Ramasubramanian, JJ has issued notice in a PIL
Know Your Rights| Child Labour
STOP Child Labour- It promotes jobs & protects people.
Ker HC | “People of Elambra have been fighting against the might of State Govt. for 35 years to establish a lower primary school”; Kerala Govt. strictly directed to establish a Government LP School at Elambra village with all promptness
Sucheta Sarkar, Editorial Assistant has put this story together
NALSAR | International Humanitarian Law and Child Rights Competition, 2019
Reported by Theja Saai