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Education: Child Sexual Abuse and Human Rights

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Education: Child Sexual Abuse and Human Rights
Prepared by

Karnataka Women’s Information and Resource Centre
For

NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION

NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION
Faridkot House, Copernicus Marg New Delhi 110 001, India Tel: 23385368 Fax: 23384863 E-mail: covdnhrc@nic.in Website: www.nhrc.nic.in

© 2005, National Human Rights Commission
The views expressed by the authors in this publication are not necessarily the views of the NHRC.

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Contents

Acknowledgments Preface Note Introduction

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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

The Rights of the Child 13 Maharukh Adenwalla .................................................................................................. The Rights of the Disabled 25 Meera Pillai .................................................................................................. The Rights of the Dalits 39 Martin McGowan .................................................................................................. Reproductive Rights 51 N B Sarojini .................................................................................................. Human Rights and the Environment
Ashish Kothari & Anuprita Patel 71 .................................................................................................. Land and Housing Rights Miloon Kothari & Sabrina Karmali 91 ..................................................................................................

The Rights of Home-based Workers
Vibha Puri Das & Aditi Kapoor 109 .................................................................................................. Gandhian Struggles for Land Rights Dr. D Jeevan Kumar 121 ..................................................................................................

The Rights of Fish Workers

Nalini Nayak 141 .................................................................................................. 10. The Right to

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