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Bestowing Honors On Activists For Child Rights
By KTM Metro Reporter
November 20, 2012: on the occasion of the International Children's Rights Day, and of the 25th anniversary of Child Workers in Nepal Concern Centre (CWIN), Prime Minister Dr Baburam bestowed the honor on Chairman of National Human Rights Commission Kedarnath Upadhyay, Commission member and CWIN founding chairman Gauri Pradhan, former Speaker Subash Nembang, former health minister Professor Dr Mathura Prasad Shrestha and human rights activist Padma Ratna Tuladhar at a function held in Kathmandu today, according to the state-run news agency RSS/thehimalayantimes.com.
Other recipients of the honor are Chancellor of the Nepal Academy of Fine Arts Kiran Manandhar, politician Rakam Chemjong, and right activists such as Sharada Raman, Bhuwaneshwori Satyal, Nupur Bhattacharya, and Baburam Adhikari.
The UN General Assembly passed the Child Rights Convention on November 20, 1989, and the CWIN has been holding various events to mark child rights day since 1986, according to the news posted on thehimalayantimes.com.
Speaking at the event held by the CWIN to mark the child rights day in Kathmandu today, Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai has urged all the state agencies to bring the policy reform concerning the child rights and enforce them following the national child rights policy of 2012, and said that the current government was sensitive to the child rights and hoped that the organizations having worked and having experience in this sector would support the government for the protection and promotion of the child rights, according to the thehimalayatinmes.com news.
Prime Minister Dr Bhattarai further said, "The child labor in the country has been the bitter reality. The suppression and mistreatments to the children are still in practice."
