ASB Justice Project 2010

Government comes before you to redeem the pledge

enacted by Parliament in August 2009, has come into force today

right to elementary education

giving all our children

demonstrates our national commitment to the education of our children and to the future of India.

We are

Nation of young people

The health, education

creative abilities of our children

young people will determine

wellbeing

strength of our Nation.

if we nurture our children

with the right education, India's future

strong

prosperous country

secure

ability and motivation of teachers

work together

Parents and guardians

critical role to play

every disadvantaged section of our society

girls, dalits, adivasis

Today

1Today

1We are committed to ensuring that all children, irrespective of gender and social category, have access to education

1I want every Indian child, girl and boy, to be so touched by the light of education. I want every Indian to dream of a better future and live that dream

1Let us together pledge this Act to the children of India. To our young men and women. To the future of our Nation.”

together pledge this Act to the children of India. To our young men and women. To the future of our Nation.

40% of 484 prostituted girls rescued during major raids of brothels in Bombay in 1996 were from Nepal

Maharashtra,

considered "high supply zones" for women in prostitution

160,000 Nepalese women are held in India's brothels.

In Bombay, children as young as 9 are bought for up to 60,000 rupees, or US$2,000, at auctions

believe sleeping with a virgin cures gonorrhea and syphilis

Districts bordering Maharashtra and Karnataka, known as the "devadasi belt," have trafficking structures operating at various levels

50,000, or half of the women in prostitution in Bombay, are trafficked from Nepal

45,000 Nepalese girls are in the brothels of Bombay

Calcutta is one of the important transit points for the traffickers for Bombay

In Bombay, one brothel has only Nepalese women, who men buy because of their golden skin and docile personalities.

13-year-old Mira of Nepal was offered a job as a domestic worker in Bombay, India. She arrived at a brothel on Bombay’s Falkland Road, where tens of thousands of young women are displayed in row after row of zoo-like animal cages. Her father had been duped into giving her to a trafficker. When she refused to have sex, she was dragged into a torture chamber in a dark alley used for ‘breaking in’ new girls. She was locked in a narrow, windowless room without food or water. On the fourth day, one of the madam’s thugs goonda wrestled her to the floor and banged her head against the concrete until she passed out. When she awoke, she was naked; a rattan cane smeared with pureed red chili peppers shoved into her vagina. Later she was raped by the goonda. Afterwards, she complied with their demands. The madam told Mira that she had been sold to the brothel for 50,000 rupees (about US$1,700),

that she had to work until she paid off her debt. Mira was sold to a client who then became her pimp.

more than 100,000 women in prostitution in Bombay, Asia’s largest sex industry cente

Picking on someone because of their skin colour, ethnicity or religion is racist bullying and, like all bullying, is wrong.

In a country so large, there are vast numbers without sanitation and water. For every 1000 children, 87 die before their fifth birthday, mostly from preventable diseases like diarrhoea.

7 die before their fifth birthday, mostly from preventable diseases like diarrhoea

Maharashtra: Fourteen year old Sneha (name changed) suffered from recurrent dizziness and vomiting.