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Police abuse and killings of street children in India

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  • At least eighteen million children live or work on the streets of India, laboring as porters in railway stations or bus terminals, as ragpickers, and as vendors of food, tea, or handmade articles. These street children are routinely subjected to arbitrary and illegal detention, torture, and extortion, and on occassion, murder at the hands of police who engage in these violations of international and Indian law with impunity
  • Overview -- Illegal detention -- Torture -- Extortion -- NGO initiatives to address -- Custodial deaths -- The applicable laws -- Conclusion
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 189 pages)
Note
  • Written by Arvind Ganesan and edited by Patricia Gossman and others. Cf. Acknowledgments
  • "Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project [and] Human Rights Watch/Asia."
Contents
  • Bug
  • U.N. rules for the administration of juvenile justice (The Beijing rules)
  • U.N. Rules for the protection of juveniles deprived of their liberty
  • U.N. convention against torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • U.N. convention on the rights of the child
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Police abuse and killings of street children in India
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Police abuse and killings of street children in India
Creator
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
  • At least eighteen million children live or work on the streets of India, laboring as porters in railway stations or bus terminals, as ragpickers, and as vendors of food, tea, or handmade articles. These street children are routinely subjected to arbitrary and illegal detention, torture, and extortion, and on occassion, murder at the hands of police who engage in these violations of international and Indian law with impunity
  • Overview -- Illegal detention -- Torture -- Extortion -- NGO initiatives to address -- Custodial deaths -- The applicable laws -- Conclusion
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Ganesan, Arvind
Dewey number
362.760954
Index
no index present
LC call number
  • HV887.I4
  • KNS4190
LC item number
  • G35 1996
  • .G35 1996
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Gossman, Patricia
  • Human Rights Watch (Organization)
  • Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project
  • Human Rights Watch/Asia
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  • Street children
  • Homeless children
  • Child abuse
  • Police
  • Police brutality
  • Children's rights
  • Child abuse
  • Children's rights
  • Homeless children
  • Police brutality
  • Police
  • Street children
  • India
  • Politie
  • Misbruik
  • Moorden
  • Rechten van het kind
  • Kind
  • Obdachlosigkeit
  • Polizei
  • Machtmissbrauch
  • Indien
  • Kind
  • Machtmissbrauch
  • Obdachlosigkeit
  • Polizei
  • Indien
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Police abuse and killings of street children in India
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Publication
Note
  • Written by Arvind Ganesan and edited by Patricia Gossman and others. Cf. Acknowledgments
  • "Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project [and] Human Rights Watch/Asia."
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
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volume
Carrier category code
nc
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rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Bug
  • U.N. rules for the administration of juvenile justice (The Beijing rules)
  • U.N. Rules for the protection of juveniles deprived of their liberty
  • U.N. convention against torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • U.N. convention on the rights of the child
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 189 pages)
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1035662490
Label
Police abuse and killings of street children in India
Link
Publication
Note
  • Written by Arvind Ganesan and edited by Patricia Gossman and others. Cf. Acknowledgments
  • "Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project [and] Human Rights Watch/Asia."
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Bug
  • U.N. rules for the administration of juvenile justice (The Beijing rules)
  • U.N. Rules for the protection of juveniles deprived of their liberty
  • U.N. convention against torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • U.N. convention on the rights of the child
Extent
1 online resource (viii, 189 pages)
Form of item
online
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
n
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1035662490

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