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ANNUAL REPORT - 2003-2004f) Women in distress(Short-stay homes):Women, battered and assaulted bytheir male counterparts or in-laws, quiteoften approach Jananeethi in dire needand request for a place for safe stay. Eachcase is singular in nature and extremelygrave taking into account thecircumstances. Many of them justescaped from an impending danger totheir lives. Good many of them were chasedby their assailants. There is great risk inproviding them shelter and protection.. ButJananeethi has always volunteered its bestservices to women in distress and have alwaysdefended such women. There are fewinstitutions, whose names are not disclosedhere for obvious reasons that have extendedfull support and help to Jananeethi as shortstay homes for those women in utter crisis.Even Kerala police had handed girl victimsof gang rape and sex scandals to the custodyof Jananeethi in full confidence. We place onrecord our sheer indebtedness to thoseinstitutions which provide us timely servicesas and when called for.VII. CHILD RIGHTSThe UN Convention on Child Rights(CRC) of 1989 has recognized four sets ofbasic rights of children. They are – right tosurvival, right to protection, right todevelopment and right to participate.24Hon. Mr. Justice R. Basant inaugurates PNDT WorkshopseriesHowever, the State as well as the society ofelders in India appears to be abysmallyignorant of this fact.a) Child Labour / Bonded LabourChildren are the dawn of humanity andhopes of nation’s future. Due to theirvulnerability and dependence they areexploited by unscrupulous economic forces,resulting in the pernicious practice of childlabour that nonetheless is bonded labour,which undoubtedly obstructs the process ofblossoming of children into able and healthycitizens enjoying the blessings of liberty.The magnitude of the problem of childlabour is alarming, as the estimated populationof child labour in India is 44 million (44–100million as referred by the Supreme Courtin M.C.Metha V/s State of Tamilnadu, AIR1982 SC 1473). This calls for a big role ofthe State and voluntary agencies. The neglectof girl child because of long standing genderbias and the practice of child prostitution haveunravelled the dimensions of gender justice