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1. Documentation
and information section
The Center has started to operate by setting
up the documentation and information section
at KSL. Reading resources and publications
are being collected and documented (including
Supreme Court decisions related to child
rights).
2. Youth Sensitization Program
The Center is organizing a youth sensitization
program on the different issues of child
rights such as interaction programme among
youths, documentary presentation on the
issues of child rights, to name a major
few.
The Center shows documentaries on the
child rights issue (and also child psychology
and child development issues) every Monday
at 2:00 pm at the documentation and information
section to the students and faculty of
the school and researchers of related
areas. In February 2008, Children's Voices
Against Violence Against Girls and Boys
and Anuttarit Prasna (Unanswered Question)
were shown. The first documentary focused
on discrimination between girls and boys
in school, family and in the law itself.
The documentary shows the psychological
and physical effects in the children of
such discrimination and violence. The
second documentary dealt with the situation
and status of juvenile delinquency in
Nepal.
The Center has scheduled an interaction
program on child rights issues for the
secondary and senior secondary school
students once a week.
These types of activities have been effective
in creating awareness among youths about
the situation and rights of children in
and across the South Asian Region.
3. Law school course on child
rights
The Center has started reviewing the curriculum
of law schools and other organizations
on child rights. Students of LL.B. have
been working as interns in the Center.
4. The Center established the
"CRC-information board"
which will display national and international
news on child rights every month.
5. The center is currently studying the
decision of Supreme Court
related to children's' rights
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A well equipped
office with sufficient space and furniture
has been set up. This includes a program
hall for weekly documentary show and
a power point presentation.
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Books related with
human rights, child rights, child
development and psychology have been
purchased/
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Internet Articles
from prominent writers have been collected.
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Reports, publications
and audio-visual CDs and Cassettes
are being collected from various governmental
and non-governmental organizations
and institutions is being collected.
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A list of Child
Rights Organizations working in Nepal
has been prepared and being updated.
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National and International
laws related to child rights have
been complied.
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A bibliography
on child rights is being prepared.
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Review of the syllabus
of all law schools and colleges has
been carried out seeking their course
on child rights.
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A complete child
statistics of Nepal is being prepared.
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Free Legal Aid
for children has been started. Recently
center filed a case against the government
authorities who has held three children
illegally in jail with elders in Nepalgunj
District.
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Weekly Programs have been lunched>
Documentary Show:
Every Monday 2:00 pm onward there
would be a documentary show related with
child rights issues in the program hall
of center. 25 persons would be benefited
at a time.
Presentation on Child Rights:
Every Sunday 2:00 pm onward there
would be a presentation on the issues
of child rights, development and psychology.
Presentation will be followed by interaction
and discussions. 25 persons would be benefited
at a time. Venue would be the program
hall of the center.
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Updates
of Events of CRC: Month of March and
April, 08>
Addressing the problems which pose
hindrances in safeguarding the rights
of the child in Nepal as well as other
countries in the region, is a major
objective of CRC, and for this purpose
CRC, in the month of March has started
launching its activities for the cause.
The center has identified that a proper
networking system is very important
to learn about the status of children,
violation of their rights, and the emerging
issues regarding their rights. Thus,
to fulfill this need, CRC, with its
three interns and a co-ordinator, has
created a record book of the various
organizations that are concerned with
the child rights issues. Together with
it, various materials, as books, booklets,
Statistics, documents, pamphlets, posters,
CDs, VCDs on child rights issues have
been collected as resources for the
CRC Library. Three Documentary shows,
'Children's Voice Against Violence Against
Girls and Boys', 'Anuttarit Bal Aparadh',
'MASVAW-Changing the Courses, Men Voices
for Gender Equality and Stopping Violence',
have been shown in the CRC conference
hall to 58 participants in total. Subsequent
to each show, interesting discussions
on child rights issues were held. Along
with these, the review of national and
international news and also book reviews,
on child rights for the month of March
and April has been done, with the regular
updating of the CRC Information board.
The national news were more focused
on review of the urgent issued of child
rights, as free education, health, right
against exploitation, domestic child
workers problems, etc. that are to be
specially addressed by the upcoming
constituent assembly. The CRC information
brochure is now in progress.
Visit to different organizations to
initiate institutional collaboration
are being done. Also, the collection
of Supreme Court verdicts relevant to
child rights, has been commenced to
build the resource of the center further.
CRC was also actively involved in the
launching of the Clinical Legal Aid
Program, and now, it is collaborating
with the Criminal Justice Center of
KSL in a full-fledged level. It is aimed
that the cases, particularly that, which
will be brought about child rights issues,
will be specially in close observation
of CRC. The upcoming events at CRC include
regular documentary shows about child
rights, launching of awareness raising
programs to school-going children, by
inviting them for a program at KSL,
an orientation for the KSL students
about how co operation can be developed
for building a community surveillance
mechanism so that each student actively
initiates to report child rights violation
cases in our center, and also about
the scope of enlarging this checking
mechanism. CRC has been established
with the vision of institutionalizing
it as a very well set-up center for
all child rights related issues. Our
continuous progresses will be updated
on monthly basis, in this website.
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of Events of CRC: Month of May, 08>
The core activity that KSL-CRC did in
month of May are as follows :
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Student intern
of KSL-CRC, Prabin Subedi from KSL
filed a writ petition on May 21, 2008
for the release of three children
illegally imprisoned in Nepalgunj
prison with elder's prisoners as there
was no child reform home in Banke
District. Legal Aid Lawyers working
in the CLEP pleaded on behalf of petitioner.
The court has ordered for showing
the cause of such imprisonment.
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Likewise KSL-CRC
has started to workout in one of the
major activity, i.e. Baseline survey
about Child Rights situation in Nepal.
In the research the center has projected
to carryout research in 14 different
area with help of 31 students as research
assistant. The orientation about objective
and research methodology has already
been done by coordinator of KSL-CRC,
Assist. Prof. Kapil Aryal.
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Student Intern,
Ms. Kanchan Koirala working in Documentation
desk continued the visit to various
organization in the month of May too
for the collection of the Resource
and maintaining relation with the
organizations.
KSL-CRC also conducted the research
about 'Impact Analysis of Glue Sniffing
by Children in Thamel area of Kathmandu'.
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The regular program
of documentary show is regularly conducted
in Documentary hall. Due to exams
and other activities, the number of
audience is not so fine.
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The intern of KSL-CRC
participated in paralegal training
conducted by Clinical Legal Education
Program, KSL
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Updates
of Events of CRC: Month of June, 08>
Baseline Survey
on Child Rights situation in Nepal
Child Rights center has started the
'Baseline Survey on Child Rights situation
in Nepal'. The Survey includes the research
in fourteen different issues which will
be done with thirty students as assistant
researchers. The research has been started
from 1st June 2008 and it takes two
months.
KSL-CRC welcome if anyone is interested
to volunteer in the Baseline Survey
research or to make some contribution
for the research. We request the interested
to contact the KSL-CRC office or email
to childrights@ksl.edu.np
By the end of research, contribution
will be acknowledged through certification.
The Fourteen Areas for research are
as follows:
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Strength and Weakness
of Nepalese Laws Concerning the Rights
of the Child
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Impact Analysis
of the Activities of the Child Rights
NGOs in Nepal
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Impact Analysis
of the Nepal Government Initiatives
for the Protection of Rights of the
Child Rights
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Situation of the
Children of Nepal (Statistics/Population
survey)
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Situation of Juvenile
Delinquency in Nepal
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Situation of Conflict-induced
Displaced Children in Nepal
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Situation of Street
Children in Nepal
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Survey of Orphanage
homes in Nepal
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Situation of Child
Labour in Nepal
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Situation of Domestic
Child Workers in Nepal
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Media Projection
and Child Rights
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Situation of Child
Rights in Schools
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Child Rights Situation
in Child Reform Homes
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Drug Abuse Situation
among Child in Nepal
KSL-CRC also conducted the research
about 'Impact Analysis of Glue Sniffing
by Children in Thamel area of Kathmandu'.
Similarly, KSL-CRC has been giving legal
aid to the childrens and following up
the cases of child rights violation
through media
Likewise in month of June Clinical Legal
Education Program in Collaboration with
Child Rights Center have filed three
Habeus Corpus writ in Supreme Court
to Kathmandu Administration office which
had practiced the illegal substantial
detention to three children under fourteen
year age.
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