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Summary: This report has been used as a background document for writing the alternative report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.
In 2001 HAQ: Centre for Child Rights undertook a decadal analysis of the Union Budget from a child rights perspective - India's Children and the Union Budget. In doing so HAQ realised that it needed to be complemented with a situational analysis of children in the country. This report was released on 6 January 2003 during a workshop at the Asian Social Forum. Releasing the status report, Swami Agnivesh, leading human rights activist, described it as the Bible for all child rights activists in the country. It has been used as a background document for writing the alternative report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which was presented at the pre-session on 9 October 2003. It has also been referred to by the Committee for formulating their observations and recommendations for India. When compiling the parliamentary questions pertaining to children we discovered that a honourable member had used it to raise a question in Parliament. Indeed these experiences have convinced us of the need to make a status report on children a regular feature. This is HAQ's second status report. To order, please contact: haq.centreforchildrights@gmail.com