8. The State-wise break up is as follows: State No. of children mainstreamed Andhra Pradesh Bihar Jharkhand Karnataka Madhya Pradesh Chhattisgarh Maharashtra Orissa Rajasthan Tamilnadu Uttar Pradesh West Bengal Punjab Total 1,73,297 10,704 10,231 10,467 2,314 4,171 8,235 63,237 11,371 39,523 23,251 16,086 1,368 3,74,255
11. CHILD ABUSE A recent study on Child Abuse, conducted by Ministry of Women and Child development (GOI) revealed that across different kinds of abuse, it is young children, in the 5-12 year group, who are most at risk of abuse and exploitation.
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14. Every 2 minutes a child is sold for sexual Exploitation $1.20 being the lowest bidding price
26. Imagine yourself a child in a small country from a poor family…. You sleep on a mat floor and eat maybe once a day… There are too many mouths to feed to many bodies in a small space…. CHAOS, FILTH, HUNGER and DESPAIR Your parents desperate act , the act to stop all financial troubles the only way to stop this is to sell YOU! Then your kept locked up in a small, dirty room, fed enough to not starve. YOUR JOB? To sell your body to men who pay high dollar .
Gibbons, Elizabeth D., Friedrich Huebler and Edilberto Loaiza, ‘Child labour, education and the principle of non-discrimination’, in Human rights and development: Towards mutual reinforcement , edited by Philip Alston and Mary Robinson, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005.