The Centre for Child Rights and Business in Sri Lanka (The Centre) is scheduled to host a conference on the 22nd November 2022, under the theme ‘Towards a Family-Friendly Tea Industry’. The one-day conference, supported by Save the Children’s Country Office in Sri Lanka, will take place in Colombo and bring together child rights specialists,.
Children are not a homogeneous category. They too are divided by caste, religion, gender, geographical differences, age or (dis)ability. It is critical to ensure that there is no child left behind.
Seeking a confession about an alleged crime committed by a juvenile is "unconstitutional" as a "presumption is raised at the pre-trial stage itself that the child has committed the offence," the Delhi High Court has said.
The report deals with persistent rights violations in the erstwhile state, such as the suppression of press freedom, the victimisation of Kashmiri Pandits, the recommendations of the delimitation commission and more.
More than 16,000 prospective parents have been waiting for over three years to adopt a child, with officials attributing the slowdown to the availability of fewer children who are legally free for adoption.