Who We Are
Just Rights for Children (JRC) began in India and, quickly, grew into a powerful national movement. Today, it stands as a dynamic global network of civil society organizations. Led from the Global South, JRC is driving meaningful change worldwide, shaping efforts to end violence against children and ensuring that survivors receive the justice and support they deserve on a global scale.
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We believe that justice for victims and their families must be accessible to all, and should comprise legal support, a child-centered approach by law enforcement agencies and the judiciary, adequate compensation, and their rehabilitation.
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We operate by building collaboration between governments and communities, creating partnerships with key stakeholders, investing in child protection institutions, education, healthcare, justice delivery, and rehabilitation of survivors and their families.
We have recently launched in Nepal, Kenya and the US. In India, we are breaking new ground for child protection every day by:
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Putting India’s child protection laws into practice to increase the number of cases of trafficking and child sexual abuse which are registered and heard in court, and increase the rate of convictions
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Identifying child traffickers, stopping trafficking as it happens, and rescuing children who have been trafficked into exploitation with the support of law enforcement agencies
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Providing children with rehabilitative counseling, enabling their access to statutory compensation for registering the crimes committed against them, and claiming back wages for child laborers
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Tracking online child trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse through new technologies to secure evidence and bring perpetrators to justice
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Preventing child marriage, child sexual abuse, and trafficking for labor and sexual exploitation from the ground up, through community engagement and training of police and child protection staff
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Engaging survivors to participate as leaders in our programs through innovative interventions to protect children from exploitation
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Strengthening India’s child protection laws and systems through public interest litigation and local and national advocacy
