Child Rights in India: Law, Policy, and Practice

Child Rights in India: Law, Policy, and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-496

  Bajpai, Asha ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Adoption; Child custody; Child labour; Child rights; Child sexual abuse; Education; Health; India; Juvenile justice; Trafficking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919954837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195670820.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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