Budgam, Feb 11: The NGOs and Child Care Institutions (CCIs) across this central Kashmir’s Budgam district have been directed to refrain from any such activity involving using pictures, videos or any such material that showcases vulnerable children in deplorable conditions, for raising funding.
The District Child Protection Officer, Budgam, in a notice informed: “All the NGOs working on children in the district that the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has been in receipt of a complaint wherein a Member of Parliament has raised concern to the Commission that various non-governmental organisations are seen raising funding – domestic as well as international – for their NGOs through advertisements on print media, news channels, websites, social media, and radio while showing vulnerable minors in deplorable condition.”
Having come across various such advertisements and fundraising activities by prominent NGOs and organisations, the Commission has observed that such activities are a violation of child rights, which is in contravention of provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, the official notice mentions.
“Therefore, your good offices are directed to refrain from practicing any such activities that involve the use of pictures, videos, or any such material that showcases vulnerable children in deplorable condition in order to raise funding,” it reads. ‘Non-implementation of this communication will force the office of the DCPO Budgam to initiate action as warranted under laws against such happenings.”
An official from the District Child Protection Office told Rising Kashmir that the disclosure of the identity of any minor child in the public domain for fundraising is a violation of child rights, which is in contravention of provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act of 2015.
