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The Children in the News:

As consumers and subjects, the media affects, reaches out to and involves children. Given the huge numbers and formats in media post-globalisation, opportunities to raise issues and encourage interactivity have grown at a never-before rate. But even as children appear more and more in news coverage, their voice finds little or no representation. News reporting that ignores child rights often further exacerbate injustice and inequality. Over 2009 and '10, CRY's volunteers in Kolkata tracked city-based newspapers for child rights content. Click here to read the full report.

Children Living at the 2010 Commonwealth Games sites:

A CRY - Child Rights and You report that attempts to highlight the violation of rights of children living at the Commonwealth Games construction sites in Delhi.

CRY volunteers visited the main sites under construction for the Commonwealth Games 2010 and discovered that children of construction workers residing at the sites were living in squalor. In spite of the unprecedented expenditure on the event itself, children compelled to live on the sites with their parents went without standard housing, sanitation, quality food, water, healthcare and schooling - in short, denied their basic rights guaranteed to them by India's ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Click here to read the full report.

Note on the Draft National Food Security Bill by National Advisory Council (21st January 2011, New Delhi)