Raghvendra Sharma, Chairperson, State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has said, “We need to engage society to address violations of rights of children.”
He was addressing NGOs from around 20 districts at meeting organised by Madhya Pradesh Child Rights Observatory. He added laws alone cannot help important is we all work together to addresses challenges for children. He spoke about role of the Commission and efforts being taken by the State Commission for last three months.
Nirmala Buch President Child Rights Observatory spoke about the objective of the observatory and how observatory and its partners can help bring issues of the child rights to the attention of people who make decisions for children.
'Civil society is stakeholder in realizing rights of children and has a major role to play in increasing discourse on child rights in the State of Madhya Pradesh. Important is that civil society needs to learn, help collate evidence and then advocate with the State and support efforts of the State', Anil Gulati, Communication Specialist, UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh. He added that there are challenges for children which needs to be responded to by the State and civil society.
FA Jami Education Specialist, UNICEF, Madhya Pradesh made a presentation highlighting the efforts and key challenges on school education in the State and how governance can help in addressing the same. In his presentation he shared DISE data analysis to show the status of RTE implementation in the State.
Vandana Bhatia, made presentation on new born care and key advocacy priorities in Madhya Pradesh.