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- Living and Educational Conditions of Child Rag Pickers on Base of Solid Waste of Guwahati City in Assam
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1 West Goalpara College, Balarbhita-783129, Dist: Goalpara, Assam, IN
1 West Goalpara College, Balarbhita-783129, Dist: Goalpara, Assam, IN
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Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 4, No 2 (2013), Pagination: 185-189Abstract
The present investigation was undertaken to study the living conditions of child rag pickers with special reference to solid waste of Guwahati City in Assam. A representative sample of 140 child rag pickers was selected from different areas of Guwahati City in Assam through snowball and purposive sampling. It was found that majority of rag pickers were 8 to 12 years of age and had migrated from other states of India namely Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh to Assam. These children had accompanied their parents and relatives to Assam in search of a livelihood. Hardly local children were found to be working as rag-pickers. Most of these children belonged to nuclear families were living under one roof with an average of 6 to 10 members usually residing in clusters of small slums in and around Guwahati City of Assam. The family occupation of the majority of the child rag pickers was labouring (67.14%) while 15.71% families were found to be engaged in both farming and labouring prior to their migration. The main reasons for the families' migration were poverty and hunger. It was found that the children faced various physical hazards such as cuts or bruises on their body and were also susceptible to infections and diseases. It was also found that 90.71% rag pickers were out of school and main reasons of out of school were poverty and hunger (42.14%), lack of interest (22.14%), death of a parent or both parents (14.29%) etc.Keywords
Living condition, Rag picker, Children, Occupation, MigrationReferences
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- Human Rights and Role of Human Rights Education in Protection of Human Rights
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1 West Goalpara College, Balarbhita-783129, Dist:Goalpara, Assam, IN
1 West Goalpara College, Balarbhita-783129, Dist:Goalpara, Assam, IN
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Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol 5, No 4 (2014), Pagination: 374-378Abstract
The order of human rights seems to be a recent phenomenon originating with the Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the United Nations. Human rights are international norms that help to protect all people everywhere from severe political, legal, and social abuses. Examples of human rights are the right to freedom of religion, the right to a fair trial when charged with a crime, the right not to be tortured, and the right to engage in political activity. These rights exist in morality and in law at the national and international levels. The main sources of the contemporary conception of human rights are the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.- Human Resource Development in Higher Education in Assam
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1 West Goalpara College, Balarbhita-783129, Dist: Goalpara, Assam, IN
1 West Goalpara College, Balarbhita-783129, Dist: Goalpara, Assam, IN