Cultural Context of Human Rights Violations Against Children in Asian Countries: Why Do Children Become Easy Targets? Human Rights Violations in India

Background

Though most of the children grow up in a safe and beneficial environment, with the support and care of their respective families, too many children are vulnerable to gross violations of their rights, including violence, sexual exploitation, trafficking, and child labor. Some groups of children – children with disabilities, indigenous children and refugee or asylum-seeking children – are at particular risk of discrimination and marginalization. Children are more vulnerable because of their physical incapacity; they cannot escape from crime scenes. In some cases, children are targeted, to invite more public attention; some of the massacres that happen in schools in various parts of the world are as a result of this attitude. Sexual assault against children happens everywhere. Children can’t resist, and then they become easy prey to sexual offenses. In each country listed for the study - India, China, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Japan, unique situations of human right violation against children besides the commonly identified human right violation issues such as child marriage, civil registration issues, children separated from their families, justice for children, violence against children and child labor exist.