A 12-year-old girl from Surat renounced ‘worldly pleasures’ on Wednesday to become a Jain nun and thus attain peace. Activists across the board have condemned the incident and the rampant issue of young children being allowed to turn into monks and nuns even before they have experienced the ways of the world.

Madras High Court on Friday observed in a case that the consensual relationships between teenagers aged between 16 and 18 years should not be dealt under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, and that the legal age of consent should be lowered down to 16 years instead of 18, as it is currently. […]

Maneka Gandhi, Minister for women and child development, has affirmed that Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences (POSCO) Act 2012 is gender neutral. She has written to all states and union territories asking them to ensure that male child survivors of sexual abuse are included in the victim compensation scheme. Asserts POSCO Act is gender […]

A class 12 student of Gurugram was allegedly slapped ’12 times by her games teacher for laughing too loudly. The incident occurred recently at the Government Senior Secondary School, Sector 4-7. Also read : Ending Gender Binary Dress Code In Schools Will Empower Girls The girl, Gayatri Mandal (16), alleged that on her way back to class after the lunch break, […]

India has been notorious for its high incidences of child marriages. An ActionAid India report released by actor-activist Shabana Azmi titled ‘Eliminating Child Marriage in India: Progress and Prospects‘ reveals some more shocking details about the conundrum of child marriages in the country. It is based on the analysis of the data from the Census 2011 and other sample […]

UNICEF has appointed Indian-origin Canadian YouTube star Lilly Singh as its newest Global Goodwill Ambassador at a special event in New Delhi. She was in Delhi to back UNICEF’s Youth4Change initiative, a programme for youth that brings them on a single platform to support their peers and communities in taking action on pertinent issues such as health, […]