Find out the judgments given by the Supreme Court on the above subjects in recent years and discuss them.

RIGHTS OF CHILDREN

• Right to Survival – to life, health, nutrition, name, nationality.

• Right to Development – to education, care, leisure, recreation, cultural activities.

• Right to Protection – from exploitation, abuse, neglect.

• Right to Participation – to expression, information, thought, religion.

2) PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS

• Article 1: Innate freedom and equality.

• Article 2: Ban on discrimination.

• Article 3: Right to life.

• Article 4: Ban on slavery.

• Article 5: Ban on torture.

• Article 6: Right to recognition as a person before the law.

• Article 7: Equality before the law.

3) PROTECTION OF THE HONOUR AND DIGNITY OF WOMEN

1) The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006

2) Special Marriage Act, 1954

3) Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961

4) Indian Divorce Act, 1969

5) Maternity Benefit Act,1861

6) Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act,1971

7) Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013

8) Indecent Representation of Women(Prevention) Act,1986

9) National Commission for Women Act, 1990

10) Equal Remuneration Act, 1976

4) INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM

• Right to Life

• Right to Family Life

• Right to Education

• Right to Personal Freedom

• Right to Religious Freedom

• Right to Freedom of Thought and Expression

• Right to Freedom of Movement

• Freedom of Press

• Right to Equality

• Right to Justice

• Freedom to Form Associations

• Right to Cultural Freedom

• Right to Contract

5) TRIBAL EMPOWERMENT

• Art. 15(4):- Special provisions for advancement of other backward classes (it includes STs)

• Art. 29:- Protection of Interests of Minorities (it includes STs)

• Art. 46:-The State shall promote, with special care, the educational and economic interests of the weaker sections of the people, and in particular, of the Scheduled Castes, and the Scheduled Tribes, and shall protect them from social injustice and all forms of exploitation

• Art. 350:- Right to conserve distinct Language, Script or Culture

• Art. 350:- Instruction in Mother Tongue

• Art. 23:- Prohibition of traffic in human beings and beggar and another similar form of forced labor

• Art. 24:- Forbidding Child Labour.