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Uttarakhand girls represent India at UN child rights meet
एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
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Here is a good news to share with you all. You can congratulate these Girls who have made us proud.
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M S Mehta
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Uttarakhand girls represent India at UN child rights meet
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) Basking in glory after representing India at the United Nations Child Rights Convention meet in Geneva last week, two teenage girls from Uttarakhand want the government to ensure implementation of child rights policies in the country.
Renu Saklani and Anjana Juyal were among a group of 24 children from across the world who were invited by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the occasion of the celebration of 20th anniversary of the Adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to which India is a signatory.
‘I am very happy after representing India at the international platform. I raised the problems faced by children in India and how the rights of children are being flouted openly,’ said 15-year-old Renu, a Class 12 student.
The two girls also participated in a discussion to find out solutions to ensure dignity of the child, possibilities for development and facilitate dialogue between adults and children.
‘Even though other children were from different countries and spoke different languages, we used methods such as theatre and sign languages to understand each other. Now I know how the problems faced by children in India are different from those in the other countries,’ said 15-year-old Anjana.
Renu and Anjana are associated with the child media network NGO Plan India, that aims to promote child rights and improve the quality of life of vulnerable children.
‘We raised problems like gender discrimination, child rights violation, poor birth registration rates in India and even recommended some solutions,’ said Anjana.
‘Majority of people in the country and even the authorities at the grass root level in states are unaware about child rights. The rights of children are often violated, hence we want the government to ensure implementation of child rights policies in the country,’ said Renu.
Both the girls are disappointed as none of the Indian government officials were present during the meet.
‘Majority of countries were represented by their government officials but India was represented by an NGO. It is really shameful that although India is a signatory to the CRC none of the officials were present there,’ said Renu.
Tanushree Soni, who accompanied the girls to Geneva, said: ‘These girls received appreciation from everyone for the points they raised in the meet, despite the fact they spoke in Hindi. It was a good exposure for the girls.’
‘The children will now prepare a short documentary based on the inputs given by various officials and present it before the government,’ said Soni.
http://trak.in/news/uttarakhand-girls-represent-india-at-un-child-rights-meet/13775/
एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
Uttarakhand girls represent India at UN child rights meet
New Delhi, Oct 13 (IANS) Basking in glory after representing India at the United Nations Child Rights Convention meet in Geneva last week, two teenage girls from Uttarakhand want the government to ensure implementation of child rights policies in the country.
Renu Saklani and Anjana Juyal were among a group of 24 children from across the world who were invited by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the occasion of the celebration of 20th anniversary of the Adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to which India is a signatory.
“I am very happy after representing India at the international platform. I raised the problems faced by children in India and how the rights of children are being flouted openly,” said 15-year-old Renu, a Class 12 student.
The two girls also participated in a discussion to find out solutions to ensure dignity of the child, possibilities for development and facilitate dialogue between adults and children.
“Even though other children were from different countries and spoke different languages, we used methods such as theatre and sign languages to understand each other. Now I know how the problems faced by children in India are different from those in the other countries,” said 15-year-old Anjana.
Renu and Anjana are associated with the child media network NGO Plan India, that aims to promote child rights and improve the quality of life of vulnerable children.
“We raised problems like gender discrimination, child rights violation, poor birth registration rates in India and even recommended some solutions,” said Anjana.
“Majority of people in the country and even the authorities at the grass root level in states are unaware about child rights. The rights of children are often violated, hence we want the government to ensure implementation of child rights policies in the country,” said Renu.
Both the girls are disappointed as none of the Indian government officials were present during the meet.
“Majority of countries were represented by their government officials but India was represented by an NGO. It is really shameful that although India is a signatory to the CRC none of the officials were present there,” said Renu.
Tanushree Soni, who accompanied the girls to Geneva, said: “These girls received appreciation from everyone for the points they raised in the meet, despite the fact they spoke in Hindi. It was a good exposure for the girls.”
“The children will now prepare a short documentary based on the inputs given by various officials and present it before the government,” said Soni.
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/uttarakhand-girls-represent-india-at-un-child-rights-meet_100260202.html
एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
Child journalists Renu and Anjana, who visited UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, during a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty.
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Two teenaged girls have made child journalists from their villages in Uttarakhand proud as they got the rare opportunity to highlight the challenges faced by Indian children, at the recent United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child (UNCRC) meet in Geneva.
Anjana Juyal and Renu Saklani were invited by the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights to participate in the two-day celebrations last week to commemorate 20th anniversary of the adoption of the convention on the rights of the child. Both are members of Umang, supported by Plan India and Shri Bhuvneshwari Mahila Ashram, that works for improving the lives of children in Uttarakhand.
Anjana, a Class XI student, said as children from 15 countries converged in Geneva there was a lot of confusion as they all spoke different languages. “We couldn’t make any head or tail so we decided to communicate in sign language. Along with another participant, we represented South Asia and interacted with representatives of other countries, UN bodies, inter-governmental organisation and national human rights institutions on the issue of ‘dignity, development and dialogue’ for children.”
The duo got a chance to interview UN High Commissioner of Human Rights Navi Pillay and UNCRC Chairperson Yanghee Lee. “As child reporters we’ve done umpteen interviews but this one was different. We researched on the Internet to prepare the questionnaire. As we carried out the interviews in Hindi, we had an interpreter. Fortunately we interviewed Kamladevi Verma from Malaysia who was conversant in Hindi.”
Renu, a Class XII student, said at Umang -- a State-wide network of child journalists who are engaged in child rights sensitisation and advocacy at various levels -- kids use news, story writing, comics, radio programmes, photography, video and animation film making and the Internet to articulate their views.
“We were also part of the team that prepared the alternate report that UNCRC accepts from civil society and children’s groups. The first report covered the issues of primary education, universal birth registration and discrimination. The second report, submitted in December last year, gives the real picture surrounding Article 19 of the UNCRC which states that children should not be subject to any sort of physical abuse at home or in school.”
Anjana said she found out while preparing the report that children in Uttarakhand were faced a lot of discrimination. “Scheduled Caste children were made to sit at a different place while eating mid-day meals. In our report, we also pointed out some teachers who were discriminating between bright and dull students,” said Anjana.
Source : http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article33429.ece#
एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta 9910532720:
Many-2 congratulations to these girls who have not only made the Uttarakhand proud but also the Entire Nation.
--- Quote from: एम.एस. मेहता /M S Mehta on October 14, 2009, 11:54:19 AM ---
Child journalists Renu and Anjana, who visited UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, during a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday. Photo: Shanker Chakravarty.
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Two teenaged girls have made child journalists from their villages in Uttarakhand proud as they got the rare opportunity to highlight the challenges faced by Indian children, at the recent United Nations Convention on Rights of the Child (UNCRC) meet in Geneva.
Anjana Juyal and Renu Saklani were invited by the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights to participate in the two-day celebrations last week to commemorate 20th anniversary of the adoption of the convention on the rights of the child. Both are members of Umang, supported by Plan India and Shri Bhuvneshwari Mahila Ashram, that works for improving the lives of children in Uttarakhand.
Anjana, a Class XI student, said as children from 15 countries converged in Geneva there was a lot of confusion as they all spoke different languages. “We couldn’t make any head or tail so we decided to communicate in sign language. Along with another participant, we represented South Asia and interacted with representatives of other countries, UN bodies, inter-governmental organisation and national human rights institutions on the issue of ‘dignity, development and dialogue’ for children.”
The duo got a chance to interview UN High Commissioner of Human Rights Navi Pillay and UNCRC Chairperson Yanghee Lee. “As child reporters we’ve done umpteen interviews but this one was different. We researched on the Internet to prepare the questionnaire. As we carried out the interviews in Hindi, we had an interpreter. Fortunately we interviewed Kamladevi Verma from Malaysia who was conversant in Hindi.”
Renu, a Class XII student, said at Umang -- a State-wide network of child journalists who are engaged in child rights sensitisation and advocacy at various levels -- kids use news, story writing, comics, radio programmes, photography, video and animation film making and the Internet to articulate their views.
“We were also part of the team that prepared the alternate report that UNCRC accepts from civil society and children’s groups. The first report covered the issues of primary education, universal birth registration and discrimination. The second report, submitted in December last year, gives the real picture surrounding Article 19 of the UNCRC which states that children should not be subject to any sort of physical abuse at home or in school.”
Anjana said she found out while preparing the report that children in Uttarakhand were faced a lot of discrimination. “Scheduled Caste children were made to sit at a different place while eating mid-day meals. In our report, we also pointed out some teachers who were discriminating between bright and dull students,” said Anjana.
Source : http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article33429.ece#
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Anubhav / अनुभव उपाध्याय:
Great achievement for Renu and Anjana. Great going by these two.
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