1) ( Article 14) No child below the age of 14 years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment.

2) Article 39-E) The state shall direct its policy towards securing that the health and strength of workers, men and women and the tender age of children are not abused and that they are not forced by economic necessity to enter vocations unsuited to there are and strength. Read the rest of this entry »

Incest and the conspiracy of silence ocial attitudes that put family ‘honour’ above the damage caused to children keep incest from being properly addressed. A recent surge in reports of incest is shedding more light on the difficulties in overcoming this. Shoma Chatterji reports.

The Mira Road expose of a father’s sexual abuse of his daughter for nine years has opened a Pandora’s box of similar cases of incest across the country. Increasingly, this is also shedding light on the legal system’s shortcomings in dealing with incest, as well as on social attitudes that hinder effective solutions.More…The Indian legal statutes do not contain any specific provisions against incest. Many developed countries such as Britain, the US and Germany have strong laws against incest. Read the rest of this entry »