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Topic: NCPCR

NCPCR has been on an anti-madrasa campaign—to rescue Hindu children

The Supreme Court has questioned why the NCPCR was only concerned with madrasas and whether it was even-handed in its treatment of all communities.

Make social media platforms liable to report users uploading child abuse clips under POCSO — NCPCR to SC

Child rights body noted that the platforms seemed to have ‘failed’ in obligation under Section 19 of POCSO Act that makes it mandatory for any person/body to report offences under Act.

‘Talks about invasion’ — NCPCR seeks action against Darul Uloom Deoband for ‘anti-India’ fatwa

Fatwa issued by Madrasa Darul Uloom Deoband gives validity to ‘Ghazwa-e-Hind’ & ‘may lead to hatred against the country’, says India's apex child rights body.

NCPCR moves SC against bail for archbishop & nun in MP ‘conversion of children’ case

SC bench agrees to hear matter again in 2 weeks, declines to stay anticipatory bail granted to an archbishop & a nun by HC on ground that NCPCR had no locus standi in the case.

NCPCR has a new mojo and mission. AAP, madrasas, BYJU’s — nothing is off-limits

Opposition leaders like Owaisi have criticised the NCPCR for pushing a soft Hindutva agenda. Chief Priyank Kanoongo says it doesn't discriminate between religions.

Madrasas violate students’ fundamental rights, impart inadequate education, NCPCR tells Allahabad HC

Apex child rights body has, through an impleadment application, sought to assist the court in matter regarding use of state funding for religious minority education.

Child rights body NCPCR asks states not to work with UNICEF — ‘involved in activities out of its purview’

New Delhi: India’s apex child rights body, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), has asked states not to work with the...

Unhappy with ‘poor response’ to child marriage review meetings, NCPCR summons officers from West Bengal, Bihar

Sanghamitra Ghosh from West Bengal & Prem Singh Meena from Bihar have been asked to meet National Commission for Protection of Child Rights chairman Priyank Kanoongo in Delhi on 3 April.

‘POCSO a secular law, applies to all’: How NCPCR opposed marriage of 16-yr-old Muslim girl in SC

Couple had married against wishes of families & sought police cover. Request was granted as she is of marriageable age under Muslim Personal Law, Punjab & Haryana HC had said.

NCPCR says minor abused at Ranchi shelter ‘linked to Mander’. Lawyer says activist has no link

NCPCR files report on Ranchi shelter in Delhi HC. Case relates to 2 other children's homes run by activist Harsh Mander's organisation CES, but lawyer says Ranchi home isn't run by them.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.