Author Archive for: etscn3pal

Building safer Internet access is integral part of safeguarding of children/adolescence. Parents should guide, monitor their children’s use of internet.  

Enhancing the capacity of children, adolescents, guardians, teachers, political and social pioneers, organizations etc. and mobilizing them to bring about changes in the mindset and practices that promote  child marriage. 

In collaboration with government and development partners, identifying and allocating sources, enhancing institutional capacity to help girl children access services and to address problems as well as for effective mobilization. 

Empowerment of girls and adolescents according to their areas of interest for carrier development.

Ensuring quality education for girls and adolescents in order to develop harmonious family where children fulfil their duties to serve parents at the time of their retirement.  

 To protect and promote the rights of children and adolescents, government agencies should be functional to respond issues and address it.  

Creating a child and adolescent friendly environment within home, school, community and public  sector.  

To end all forms of violence, discrimination, abuse, exploitation and neglect against children and  adolescents, including physical and mental. In the areas of entertainment i.e. film, advertisement, Restaurant, Bar, Circus.

Ensure access to legal remedies for girls whose rights are violated as a result of child marriage by  introducing appropriate laws, raising legal awareness, providing legal counselling and legal aid, and  enforcing penalties for violations of the law. 

Protect stateless children with laws that provides protection against all forms of violence, including sexual violence, require birth and marriage registration, determine property rights, and ensure equal citizenship rights and other relevant laws.

 Introduce legal reform recognizing marital rape as a punishable offence without establishing an agelimit for its recognition as a crime and
without prescribing a lesser punishment for marital rape. 

Girls, adolescents, and young women must have access to stigma-free sexual and  reproductive health and rights information and
services.

Girls, adolescents and young women must be able to make their own decisions about their  sexual and reproductive health and rights free from discrimination, coercion and violence, including the right to choose when and who they get married to. 

Nepali Churches should conduct learning sessions about Culture, Family and faith as it is normally going on with Christian families too influenced by world which is impacted by various means and reason behind it. For Christian family this should come first Faith, Family and than Culture (Culture,  family and faith is a roughly drafted resource waiting to be printed and few churches conducted this learning session: Prepared and facilitated by; Surya Prakash Rai)