Ensure and empower children and youth to determine respectful life by defending and upholding their rights by preventing, protecting and promoting them towards dignified living away from victimisation, abuse, discrimination and trafficking.
Boys too are sexually abused and exploited
SathSath works to protect male youth from sexual abuse and exploitation, and to disengage as many male youth as possible from commercial sex work.
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Road to Education
Ensuring education and other rights realisation by street-connected children.
Road to Education – “RoTE” targets street-connected children and youth by focusing on them through education, leadership, family support, and skill and vocational interventions as the tools to reconnect NFE, the formal educational system, and vocational empowerment to withdraw/liberate from street-connected life.
My Birth Registration, My Identity
My Birth Registration, My Identity – (MBRMI)
Ensuring the well-being of children and youth in street situations by securing legal identity.
Every child is entitled to a name, identification, and birth registration. Several human rights documents, particularly the Convention on the Rights of the Child, make this clear (Articles 7 and 8). Establishing an effective system for birth registration is an essential first step in ensuring the protection of children. Despite the fact that a birth registration system has already been established in Nepal, there is still a lack of uniformity and a poorly regulated system in place for children in conflict with the law, children and youth living on the streets, orphans, children of single mothers, and numerous other socioeconomic factors that play a crucial role in birth registration as a complex legal document. Although birth registration is distinct from the process of acquiring nationality, the local government and community continue to believe and practice that the registration of a child’s birth is the first document to acquire citizenship, despite the fact that by law, registration of a child’s birth does not confer nationality. This is because the majority of people are unaware of the importance of and procedures for obtaining birth registration, which are much more prevalent in rural communities, urban poor communities, and children living and working on Nepal’s streets.
Still, there are some major gaps in the current act, particularly pertaining to documentation of birth registration. Current legislation does not have any provisions to address a situation where an adult has no identity and no documentation to prove that they are also part of the same society. Similarly, Section 20(2) of the Act makes no mention of birth registration for children born to parents who do not have a national identity. This provision contradicts the constitutional right to compulsory registration for all children. So far, such individuals, specifically children and youth in street situations, have been unable to be registered.
Birth registration is essential for preventing statelessness since it produces a legal record of a child’s place of birth and parents’ identities. This is a crucial form of evidence for determining whether a person gained nationality by birth on the territory or by descent, the two most common grounds for acquiring nationality at birth.
At this point SathSath has intervened and facilitated for those SCC to acquire their universal rights for birth registration. The communities where the BR project intervention takes place will have components of awareness and support for legal registration procedures. Complicated cases and cases that contradict legal law will be addressed in the writ filed against the Nepal government. Concerned government officials, parliamentarians, local leaders, elected local bodies, communities, line organisations, and beneficiaries will be the stakeholders of the project to make aware, advocate, ensure, and facilitate the process for the children and youth who are living in the street situation for legal way out.
Child Online Safety
Children who were not in supervision of parents while using internet seemed to falls in to the victim. There has been no proper research and study carried out on online abuse and exploitation of children but police report shows children are more vulnerable of falling victim from social media, email hacking, prone sites, sms bullying etc, impostering, sexting and grooming are major means of online internet form of abuse and exploitation recorded.
Listen our Radio Programme
SathSath is currently producing and broadcasting Radio programmes on “The Brith Registration” of street connected children in Nepal with support from www.toybox.org.uk
15 minutes radio programme is broadcasted in all seven provinces of Nepal.
- Saptakoshi FM, Province 1
- Janaki Fm, Province 2
- Radio Sagarmatha, Bagmati Province
- Radio Annapurna, Gandaki Province
- Bageshowri Fm, Province 5
- Radio Bheri, Karnali Province
- Radio Dinesh, Far Western Province
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