Mothers and children do not need cold-blooded child rights careerists.

In the last decade, we in India have introduced a range of laws for children that are based on a dysfunctional Western model of so-called “child protection”. I hope that Smriti Irani, the new Minister for Women and Child Development, as an outsider to the child rights field, will be able to bring in new thinking. There is an urgent need for a change of direction in our child protection laws. Continue reading “Suranya Aiyar: Think beyond Western model of child protection” →