A north west regional review conference on Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act 2012 and Restorative Justice (Victim Compensation and Rehabilitation) is scheduled to be held on June 18 and 19 by National Human Rights Commission(NHRC) in collaboration with Women and Child Development Department, Haryana to review the implementation of these Acts.
The stakeholders of nine states and union territories namely Chandigarh, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Rajasthan would participate in the conference here, said an official spokesman.
He said that the Secretaries of Department of Women and Child Development, Director General of Police, State Human Rights Commission, State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, officials of State legal Service Authorities, Special Public Prosecutors from Prosecution Department, chairpersons and Members of Child Welfare Committees, Members of Juvenile Justice Boards, legal Cum probation officers, Superintendents of children homes would participate.
The spokesman said that National Human Rights Commission is deeply concerned with the violation of rights of children of the country. Since, Juvenile Justice Act, 2015 has been formulated for the Protection of Rights of the children, thus, NHRC has been holding a series of regional conferences on child rights to review the implementation of JJ Act, 2015 and POCSO Act, 2012.
The NHRC had organised the regional conferences at Chennai to cover southern states and north eastern states in the year 2017, he added.