Bachpan bachao andolan

This paper seeks to investigate the function of the BachpanBachaoAndolan in defending children's human rights in India. Secondary data, principally official reports from the BachpanBachaoAndolan (BBA), the National Commission for the Protection of the Rights of the Child, and the National Human Rights Commission, are used in this study. BBA was established in 1980 by Kailash SatyaRathi as a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).Its principal purpose was to create a child-friendly society in which all children are safe from exploitation and get a free, high-quality education. Its principal purpose is to eradicate bonded labour, child labour, and human trafficking while also demanding that all children have the right to an education. The South Asia alliance against child slavery was originally publicised by BBA, the first organisation in India to raise awareness of the problem (SACCS). This study also examines India's constitutional guarantee for children as well as other child welfare programmes. According to the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sector (2007), the country's potential child labour pool stands at 45.2 million youngsters. According to the non-governmental organisation, the overall number of child labourers in India is 60 million, or 6% of the entire population. However, according to the NFHS-3 Report (2005-06), 15% of youngsters in India are still working. Article Details Contact Us [email protected] No: This is an open access ...

Bachpan Bachao Andolan Volunteer Opportunities: History Kailash Satyarthi founded Bachpan Bachao Andolan in 1980. BBA has successfully changed the fate of over 82,000 children rescued from exploitation, achieved important anti-child labor and anti-trafficking laws and raised awareness among the public. Raid and rescue operations to free child workers from unacceptable conditions have always been at the heart of our work. Early efforts have mainly been directed at children exploited in brick kilns, stone quarries and the carpet industry. An important milestone in our history marks the opening of Mukti Ahsram in 1990, which has been the first transit rehabilitation center for bonded child laborers. In 1997, BBA opened Bal Ashram in Rajasthan, which provides a long-term solution to former child laborers. In 1993, BBA initiated the first campaign in the form of a march against child labor. The 2,000 km Bihar-Delhi march raised awareness on the issue of child labor in the carpet industry. Other marches followed, with the historic Global March Against Child Labor in 1998 being the most impressive up to date. The 80,000 km long physical march crossed 103 countries and led to a high level of participation from the masses as well as the support of world leaders. The development of the model of Bal Mitra Gram (Child Friendly Villages) in 2001 is also an example for BBA’s innovative approach. The implementation of the model into villages leads to the prevention and elimination of chi...

• • Introducing UNESCO • • • • • • • Transparency • • • • • Expertise • • • • • • Major Initiatives • • • • • • • • • Specialized Areas • • • Global Priorities • • • • • • • • Networks • • • • • • Institutes • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • UNESCO Lists • • • • • • • • Data and Statistics • • • • • Archives • • • Library • • • Children may have been given the right to education, but now they must be educated about their rights. This is the new challenge faced by Kailash Satyarthi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2014. He has been at the forefront of the fight against child slavery and labour since 1980, when he founded his movement, the Satyarthi tells the UNESCO Courier how his quest to improve the lives of children began, what he hopes for from his new cause to make schools safe, and why he believes true liberation starts with education. Interview by Mary de Sousa Where and how did your impulse to fight for children's rights start? When I was five. The very first day of my schooling, I saw a boy, around the same age as me, sitting outside the school and looking at my shoes. He had a shoe-polishing box in front of him. I was very disturbed. My first-ever question to the teacher was: why was the boy outside and not inside the school? The teacher said it was very common for poor children to have to work. One day I asked the boy’s father about this and he said his father and grandfather had also been shoe-shiners. Then he said: “Sir, don’t you know...

Primary school children in Raghunathpura, one of 317 child-friendly villages in India under a scheme set up by Kailash Satyarthi’s NGO. Photograph: KumKum Dasgupta Primary school children in Raghunathpura, one of 317 child-friendly villages in India under a scheme set up by Kailash Satyarthi’s NGO. Photograph: KumKum Dasgupta H anumanth Sai, a 65-year-old small farmer, is the most engaging storyteller in his village by a distance. From his modest home in Raghunathpura, located nearly 300km from Delhi in the north-western state of Rajasthan’s Jaipur district, he recounts the changes he has witnessed since activists from the New Delhi-based NGO “The world has changed, so have we, although a bit slowly,” says Sai, a tall man with a weather-beaten face, settling down on a charpoy. “Before 2008, child labour and child marriage were rampant in this Gujjar-dominated village [the Gujjar are a pastoral ethnic group]. Girls did not go to school and many boys would even drop out after class six. But now, thanks to BBA, we have become a Bal Mitra Gram [child-friendly village or BMG].” His family mirrors the changes the village has undergone in the past few years. Sai, a class 10 dropout, got married when he was 17; his wife, who is illiterate, was only 13. “Those times were different,” he says, pointing out by way of illustration that his two daughters-in-law did not marry until they were 18, the legal age of marriage. Raghunathpura is one of 317 villages across 11 states in India des...

In 2021, human rights lawyer Amar Lal, 25, succeeded in taking three cases of child labour to a successful conclusion, by ensuring that the culprits got 14 years imprisonment. “This is a collective win,” he says, as he prepares for his next fight to get justice for another child labourer. ALSO READ Lal is a former child labourer himself; he worked with his father in a stone quarry in Rajasthan since the age of six. Barely able to lift the heavy tools, he would break stones and at times remove debris in a trolley that far outweighed him. For this, he was paid ₹20 a day. “I got lucky when I was rescued by the In September 2022, the International Labour Organization released a report that said 50 million people were living in modern slavery in 2021, of which 28 million were in forced labour. Almost one in eight of these people were children (3.3 million). Amar Lal, a former child labourer, now a lawyer | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Loan trap The pandemic added to the crisis. BBA, for instance, rescued more than 10,000 children from being trafficked for labour and exploitation during the 15 peak months of COVID-19. On average, the organisation would rescue around 3,000 children every year. According to ActionAid India, loans taken by families working in stone quarries and mines from their contractors spiked during the pandemic, and children were therefore often brought into work to help repay these loans. The Rajasthan government, in June 2022, became the first State to ...

Instead of Kailash Satyarthi’s ideal world for children, we have a very different one. Children can be seen working everywhere: slogging in our homes, begging on the streets, working in the fields, holed up in airless factories making firecrackers, or toiling under the blazing sun in quarries. Yet, till very recently, child labour was an issue ignored by governments, society, and even the media. One organization did not take the situation lightly. Bachpan Bachao Andolan registered as the Association for voluntary Action, has been a flag bearer for child rights since 1980. The world has recognized its contribution: its founder, Kailash Satyarthi won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 for his exemplary work in the field, including rescuing over 83,000 children from fates worse than death. Vision of BBA is to create a child friendly society, where all children are free from exploitation and receive free and quality education. Mission of BBA is to identify, liberate, rehabilitate and educate children in servitude through direct intervention, child and community participation, coalition building, consumer action, promoting ethical trade practices and mass mobilisation. Bachpan Bachao Andolan (BBA) symbolizes India’s largest grassroots movement for the protection of children, ensuring their quality education. Since its establishment BBA has led the world’s largest civil society campaign in the form of the Global March against Child Labour and has been at the forefront of laying down la...