Every living being has got certain rights. We always talk of rights of men and women, senior citizens and fight very vehemently with each other. We also see in the society that labour class fight for their rights and owners Associations lobby with the Govt. and also fight for their rights. Even Animal Rights activists also became active and fight for the rights of animals tooth and nail by saying that animals cannot ascertain their rights and active human intervention is required to protect their rights. Similar is the green rights activists.
Amongst these rights activists, I really wonder, why we often forget the rights of the child and yet to be born child (a victim of foeticide). I tried to highlight this aspect on the basis of 2011 provisional census showing how as a nation we kill our own daughters, by following unprincipled and unethical female foeticide methods, my intention is to bring the attention of the members that how we violate human rights and more particularly the rights of the child and yet to be born child.
The children's rights violators are firstly the parents, next immediate family members and next the school authority wihch impose corporal punishment and continuous mental harassment and finally all of us, as a society. If the child gets birth in poor family, he is deprived of school education and forced by parents to do child labour and earn some thing to meet his needs. If he runs away to metros, he will be taken into the wings of the criminal gangs and trained to be a criminal. In our every day life, we see children labouring in canteens, shops and also as domestic servants and this is violation of child protection laws. The authorities, which supposed to see the proper implementation of child protection laws ignore them totally because the victims of their rights-the children cannot form associations, cannot force the violators to jails and suffer the pains silently. Earlier women also used to suffer like that, but now they have their own associations and started to ascertain their rights and that is why the men's rights activists are reacting so violently, which we see on this forum every day. Had there not been women's associations, their rights also would have been as pathetic as children's rights.
Finally, the real protectors of children's rights should be the parents and one or two NGOs may create a ripple of awareness in the society, but they cannot solve the problem.