Workshop on protection of children held at MU
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, February 24 2011:
A workshop on protection of children for media and community based organisations was held today in the conference of Anthropology Department, Manipur University under the aegis of the Childline Imphal.
Giving key-note address of the workshop, Childline Imphal director Dr S Jibankumar said that the Childline is a project taken up under the Ministry of Women and Child Development.
This project has a provision of giving free counselling on different issues and problems related to children through toll free telephone line 1098 .
Observing that media and community based organisations are two groups which receive and encounter issues related to children at the first place, Jibankumar said that the workshop was organised to understand whether or not media houses should disclose names and identities of children when any incident or issue related to them should be published.
The workshop was also aimed at resolving trivial issues related to children at the local level without compromising their rights, the director said.
The workshop was also addressed by Associate Prof MC Arun of Anthropology Department, MU and Editor of the Sanaleibak daily A Mobi.