Child Rights in Nepal

Human beings want to enjoy freedom, justice and peace. Children naturally want to enjoy rights. They are ignorant and deserve our love. Children are supposed to enjoy some rights. They are right to shelter, right to food, right to health care, right to education, right to expression, right to games and so on. Child rights are very important to enhance human dignity and prosperity. In Nepal, the condition of children is not uniform. There are many children who cannot go to school. Some of them are the children of the poor parents. Their parents compel them to go to work. Because of poverty, they cannot have a balanced diet and are not properly cared. Orphans and street children are in a miserable condition. They cannot get even simple food to live on. Most of them beg walking door to door. We can see many boys sleeping on the pavements of the roadsides or the temples and other public places. Their condition is worse than a dog. Some poor children are kept by the rich as their servants. Some children seem to be working as the house boys and girls in the cities. Some of the children are working at hotels and factories. They are not enjoying their rights. But most of the children go to school for their education. They are not in a miserable condition. They are normally enjoying their rights and freedom. Thus prevailing disparity hinders child rights in Nepal. Nowadays, many NGO’s have been supporting the children in many ways. Some of the major NGO’s are CWIN, SOS, STC, UNDP, UNICEF etc. They especially support the children who are orphans, street children, uncared, unloved and unclaimed. The organizations support them by providing education, health care, balanced diet, even shelter and clothes. Some of the schools have been established for them. Some of the children who seem to be collecting cans, bottles, plastics, etc. are also helped. They are given technical education like tailoring, carpentry, paper work, etc. Thus these NGO’s are supporting the children to maintain a normal life. In order to promote child rights in Nepal, all he sectors concerned should pay their complete attention. Firstly, the children should be provided basic needs such as food, shelter, clothes, etc. education should be made compulsory for all the children. The discrimination between sons and daughters should be avoided. The parents who are uneducated think that education is necessary only for boys, but not for girls. They don not want to send their daughters to schools. Those parents should be convinced. All the street children, orphans, uncared and unwanted ones should be fed, cared and educated. Then automatically the condition of child rights gets enhanced. The government should completely ban child labor at hotels and factories. At least, primary education should be made compulsory for all the children. Every adult should be responsible for promoting child rights in Nepal. All the legal provisions to stop child labor and to promote human rights should be implemented in practice.