Children Rights are Human Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was developed in 1989 and is the first legally binding international instrument to incorporate the full range of human rights for children i.e. civil, cultural, economic, political and social. social. It is a recognition by world leaders that children have human rights and people under 18 years old often need special care and protection that adults do not. Several organizations are working in the country to address child rights issues & sensitize Indian citizens. It is the duty & responsibility of every Nation that their children should avail the benefits of the child rights for their well-being. Children are made aware & sensitized so that they can also raise their voices for their rights.

Several groups of children are formed across the country so that together they can come under an umbrella for the collective voice on their rights.

Child Parliament is one of the models of Children group where children come together to work for their wellbeing.

Children’s Parliament can be defined as an inclusive and democratic body- of the children, for the children and by the children. The Children’s Parliament is a group of children of a particular village, neighbourhood, or region who come together as a group for activities, learning, and to represent their interests and opinions to the decision-makers of the village.

Caritas India Swaraksha Anti Human Trafficking Program had formed more than thirty-five child Parliament in their communities where the Program Intervention is going on for the last four years. The Purpose & Objective to form these child Parliament in the local villages was to create awareness among children on the child rights & to strengthen them so that they should learn the value of their Rights & they can raise their voices against any kind of abuse with them & to get the Access on each child rights for their wellbeing. In the past four years, several actions are taken by the child Parliament leaders like stopping Child labour, Child Marriage, child abuse and Human trafficking. Children learned their rights thoroughly and now they know that where they need to raise their voice against any kind of abuse against, the child.

Recently it was seen that Purvanchal Gramin Seva Samiti partner Swaraksha AHT Program called the child Parliament leaders to organize an excursion visit in the local Police Station to learn how policing is done by the Police officials to control the crime in that place. Around fifteen children with their happy faces witnessed this visit to learn the different aspects of working in the police. It was a joyful day for the children when they saw that their Child Parliament Prime Minister Raveena got the opportunity to become a one day Police officer of that Police Station. Raveena is a pioneer in the field of child rights, and she was always ahead to stop labour, child marriage, child trafficking and addressing several Girls related issues like menstrual management of adolescent girls. Raveena is currently a student of class 11 of RH Inter College, Nichlaul. Earlier because of her great deeds to serve the vulnerable children in the community she was nominated for the International Children Peace Prize. In August 2017, the child parliament was formed under the SWARAKSHA program, in which all the children voted her for Prime Minister for her activism, since the formation of the child parliament children in a monthly meeting make people aware in their village area on child safety. So far, the Raveena has stopped two child marriages, freed 25 children involved in child labour and got them enrolled in school. During the Outbreak of the first covid-19 first wave in 2020, she bought sanitary pads from community support for adolescent girls and distributed them to them and made them aware of the importance of its use. Today Raveena is doing great work for the welfare of children in the area by securing the post of Prime Minister in the District Level Committee of Children’s Parliament. When asked how this inspiration came about, then she said that “today the reason for the development of our skills and abilities is the anti-human trafficking, a self-defence program run by Purvanchal Gramin Seva Samiti, Branch – Nichlaul, which is helping us to move forward day by day. We dream that all the children from the area should get a chance to study and child marriages should be stopped.”

In her one day responsibility of becoming a Police officer of the local Police station where the child Parliament team visited for the excursion visit, she learned many things related to Policing that how the complaint is lodged and how the case is handled. Besides this she also shared the emergency helpline numbers like 1090 for women, 1098 for children, 1903 for SSB, 112 police & told to everyone how these numbers help in the time of emergency. She prepared the action plan with the team to stop Human trafficking at the Indo-Nepal border with the help of the Police. She also sensitized children and Police officials that during this Pandemic hour everyone must adhere Govt. regulations of maintaining Physical Distancing, using masks at public places, and getting vaccinated. She also discussed drop out children status after this Pandemic & urge everyone to work together for bringing them back to School. Child Parliament children said that this was a memorable moment for them when they came to the Police Station where usually children feel scared to come, but they learn several things. They were thankful to PGSS that through Swaraksha AHT Program they learned many things & they Pledged that they will collectively work to combat Human Trafficking and different child-related abuse.