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Police abuse and killings of street children in India.
- Title
- Police abuse and killings of street children in India.
- Author
- Ganesan, Arvind.
- Publication
- New York : Human Rights Watch, c1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | HV887.I4 G35 1996 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 189 p.; 23 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- 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.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 156432205X
- LCCN
- ^^^96077861^
- OCLC
- 35957160
- SCSB-13467153
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library