Who We Are
Just Rights for Children began in India, growing quickly to become a powerful national movement for child protection. Led from India and now operating in Kenya, Nepal, and the United States, Just Rights for Children is a dynamic international network of civil society organizations working to end extreme forms of violence and exploitation against children. Just Rights for Children is also driving meaningful change worldwide, shaping efforts to end violence against children and ensuring that survivors receive the justice and support to which they have the right 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.
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
