Centre for Child and the Law
Public Policy - Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Centre for Child and the Law Employees
Centre for Child and the Law Details
The Centre for Child and the Law (CCL) was established as a specialized multi-disciplinary Research Centre of NLSIU on April 1st 1996. It was one of the first research centres that started work in the landscape of child rights. The Centre integrates research, direct field action and teaching on child rights law; and uses law and socio-legal strategies as tools for transformative social change to enable children to live with dignity. The specific aim of CCL is to ensure social justice, human rights and quality of life for all children in India, with special focus on equitable quality education, food, nutrition security, care, protection and justice for marginalized and excluded children.The objective of the Centre is to enable children to be treated as rights holders; to help institutionalize the human rights-based approach into policy, law and practice on children, and to build the capacity of state and civil society for more effective realization of child rights.Drawing from its engagement with research and direct action, it launched the pioneering PG Diploma in Child Rights Law through Distance mode in 2008, which is currently coordinated by Distance Education Programme, NLSIU.Inter-disciplinary policy research, legal reform, system reform, advocacy and lobbying with the State and Central Governments to ensure accountability for effective realization of Child rights has been undertaken by CCL over the years. The strategies adopted include the adoption of human rights-based approach, participatory action research approach, inter-disciplinary approach including critical engagement with academia, practitioners, local communities, and social movements to positively impact the human rights of children. The three prominent programmes at CCL are Child Protection, Education and Food Security.
