2. Introduction
• The Millennium Declaration of 2000 explicitly addresses the
need to protect children from conflict, violence, abuse and
exploitation.
• Child Protection intersects with every one of the MDGs –
from poverty reduction to getting children into school, from
eliminating gender inequality to reducing child mortality.
• The strengthening of evidence base in the area of child
protection is one of the key challenges.
• The very nature of the different aspects of child protection
such as violence, abuse, exploitation and trafficking which
thrive on illegality and secrecy etc. makes it difficult for the
government to collect reliable data.
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9. References
• ‘State of the World’s Children’ Report 2010:
UNICEF
• Computed using NFHS 2005-06 and Census
2001
• http://www.childinfo.org/newborncare.html
