This Cell constitutes a panel of consultants who ensure the providing of appropriate legal advice on a diverse range of substantive and procedural questions of law arising in functioning and applicability of different Acts and Rules thereunder, to firmly secure the interest of public health and welfare.

The Cell constitute in advising the matter of preferring of appeals in superior courts and in the matter of taking recourse to other legal remedies, as well as assisting the operational departments in preparing of reply to legal notices received.

IHRO primarily have framed the Regulations for providing free and competent legal services to the needy and poor masses of the country.

We are providing the legal aid to the sufferer of any violation and the victim can file his application to the below links:

Team

1. Sh. Advocate PV Rao

2. Smt. Advocate Payal Dhuppar

3. Smt. Advocate Lalita Chaudhary

4. Sh Advocate Vikrant Rana

Child’s Right is the law that guarantees the rights of all children. Children as defined by Child’s Right is any person under the age of 18. This cell undertakes several procedures of promoting and protecting the rights of children under this age because they are vulnerable.

India, in its bid to become an ethical labour market to international corporations in 1991, ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Children in 1992. The Convention stems from Jebb’s desire to end the suffering of children, giving them instead a healthy, happy and safe environment that nurtured them physically, mentally, and emotionally. These facets find a strong resonance in the Convention.

Child rights go beyond just human rights, which exist to ensure fair and proper treatment of people across the world, and promote their well-being. Children, defined as any person under the age of 18, need more than just human rights due to a set of unique needs stemming from their vulnerabilities.

Further, the rights as described in the Convention have been summarised into the following fundamentals with references to various articles.

i) THE RIGHT TO AN IDENTITY (ARTICLES 7 AND 8) Children are entitled to a name, legally registered with the government, and a nationality (to belong to a country). Further, they must have the right to an identity, in the form of a public record. This ensures national support, as well as access to social services.

ii) THE RIGHT TO HEALTH (ARTICLES 23 AND 24) Medical care, nutrition, protection from harmful habits (including drugs) and safe working environments are covered under the right to health, and articles 23 and 24 enumerate access to special care and support for children with special needs, as well as quality health care (including drinking water, nutrition, and a safe environment) respectively.

iii) THE RIGHT TO EDUCATION, (ARTICLE 28) Right to free primary education is critical for helping children develop discipline, life skills while finding a safe and healthy environment to nurture a child’s physiological development. This includes freedom from violence, abuse or neglect.

iv) THE RIGHT TO A FAMILY LIFE (ARTICLES 8, 9, 10, 16, 20, 22 AND 40) If not family members, then children have the right to be looked after by caretakers. Children must live with their parents until it is harmful to them. However, ‘family reunification’, i.e. permission for family members living in different countries to travel to renew contact between family members is critical. Under the ward of a caretaker or family, they must be provided privacy against attacks on their way of life and personal history. Children who do not have access to a family life, have a right to special care and must be looked after properly, by people who respect their ethnic group, religion, culture and language. Refugee children have a right to special protection and help. In the case of misdemeanours, children have the right to seek legal counsel under a juvenile justice mechanism, with the fair and speedy resolution of proceedings.

v) THE RIGHT TO BE PROTECTED FROM VIOLENCE (ARTICLE 19 AND 34) Protection from violence extends even to family members, and children must not suffer ill-treatment or sexual or physical violence. This includes use of violence as a means of discipline. All forms of sexual exploitation and abuse are unacceptable, and this Article takes into view the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

vi) THE RIGHT TO AN OPINION (ARTICLE 12 AND 13) All children deserve the right to voice their opinions, free of criticism or contempt. In situations where adults are actively deciding upon choices on behalf of children, the latter are entitled to have their opinions taken into consideration. While children’s opinion may not be based on facts, it is nonetheless an important source of insight for parents, and should be considered. However, this depends on the child’s level of maturity and age. Children have the freedom of expression, as long as they are not harming others with their opinions and knowledge.

vii) THE RIGHT TO BE PROTECTED FROM ARMED CONFLICT (ARTICLES 38 AND 39) Armed conflict converts innocent children into refugees, prisoner, or participants in armed conflicts, and these are all circumstances which contravene with the spirit of War or any armed struggle can severely damage a child’s morale as well as perceptions of ethics, and this must be corrected in a nurturing safe environment. While seeking to rehabilitate children affected by war, the government must also ensure that children are not forced to participate in any armed struggle.

viii) THE RIGHT TO BE PROTECTED FROM EXPLOITATION (ARTICLES 19, 32, 34, 36 AND 39) As exploitation is usually achieved through violent means, protection from violence is critical for freeing children from exploitation. This extends to abuse, negligence and violence by parents, even if it is justified as an instrument of achieving discipline at home. Further, children cannot be made to work in difficult or dangerous conditions. Children can only volunteer to work doing safe chores that do not compromise their health, or access to education or play. Sexual exploitation, another dimension of exploitation, is also prohibited, as an activity that takes advantage of them. Survivors of neglect, abuse and exploitation must receive special help to enable recovery and reintegration into society. Children also cannot be punished cruelly, even if it is under the ambit of the justice system. Death or life sentences, as well as sentences with adult prisoners, are not permitted. UNICEF considers child protection as the prevention of or responding to the incidence of abuse, exploitation, violence and neglect of children. This includes commercial sexual exploitation, trafficking, child labour and harmful traditional practices, such as female genital mutilation/cutting and child marriage. Protection also allows children to have access to their other rights of survival, development, growth and participation. The system or the framework of this cell consists of various duty bearers such as the departments of the government, police, school, civil society, who all have roles to play to ensure that a child’s rights are met, and in the case that a child’s rights are violated that the violator be brought to justice and care be provided to the child.

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage or the extraction of organs or tissues including for surrogacy and ova removal. Human trafficking can occur within a country or trans-nationally. Human trafficking is a crime against the person because of the violation of the victim’s rights of movement through coercion and because of their commercial exploitation. Human trafficking is the trade in people, especially women and children, and does not necessarily involve the movement of the person from one place to another.

As the extent of human trafficking is recognized, a number of approaches to tackling it have been developed. The first step to preventing human trafficking and prosecuting the traffickers is therefore to recognize the complexity of the crime which cannot be tackled in a vacuum. Anti-trafficking strategies have to be embedded in every policy area. Laudable efforts in this direction have already been made.

Transgender people have a gender identity or gender expression that differs from the sex that they were assigned at birth. Transgender people have raised a number of concerns including sexual abuse, discrimination at the workplace as well as problems in finding an accommodation in the city, A transgender cell within the organization has been designated duties to look into complaints of abuse as well as to reach out to the community. The cell will enable us to focus on issues faced by transgender. The data of transgender is to be maintained for every state. A cross survey campaign is under planning to be done to know the actual issues faced by transgender.