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Indulekha Aravind | 23:09 Min | May 07, 2021, 8:03 AM IST
That’s the number to contact to help children orphaned by Covid-19, who are more vulnerable to unscrupulous traffickers, with social media Samaritans unwittingly worsening the situation. Sunil Arora of Bal Asha Trust, Sonal Kapoor from the Protsahan India Foundation and ET’s Devina Sengupta explain how children in this crisis can be helped.
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Synopsis Over the last week especially, contact details and addresses of children orphaned by Covid have been shared widely across social media. This makes them a bait for child traffickers who come as relatives, propose adoption etc,” said Sonal Kapoor Singh, chief executive officer of Delhi-based NGO-Protsahan India Foundation.
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Adoption agencies, child welfare associations and NGOs across India are concerned that photographs of children who have lost parents to Covid-19 are doing the round on social media with their contacts and addresses. Sharing of children s details is attracting child traffickers and the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights has even asked the Delhi Police to be more vigilant on social media and ensure children don t fall prey to trafficking”.
Where are Indiaâs queer parents? Having a family is not even an option for many Indians
The fight that started with de-criminalising Section 377 must not end there â it is a battle half won. Many queer couples in India want to raise children but canât.
Tarini Mehta 21 February, 2021 8:30 am IST Text Size:
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Ask Indians what matters most to them and they are likely to say, my family. But in an India that places the family at the centre of the universe, itâs strange that not all Indians get to have one.
How many queer parents have you come across at adoption centres, parent-teacher meetings or even eating ice cream with their children at the mall? The fight that started with de-criminalising Section 377 must not end there â it is a battle half won. And what began as revocation of a ban must now expand to a full realisation of civil rights. Otherwise, the slide is always a looming danger.