Missing school in spite “very good laws” for child protection: Unicef – Meghalaya

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By GARDINER HARRIS, nytimes.com, February 25, 2013 Slideshow >>

“We have very good laws in this country,” said Vandhana Kandhari, a child protection specialist at Unicef. “It’s our implementation that’s the problem.” […]

Meghalaya lies in India’s isolated northeast, a stump of land squashed between China, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. Its people are largely tribal and Christian, and they have languages, food and facial features that seem as much Chinese as Indian.

Suresh Thapa, 17, said that he has worked in the mines near his family’s shack “since he was a kid,” and that he expects his four younger brothers to follow suit. He and his family live in a tiny tarp-and-stick shack near the mines. They have no running water, toilet or indoor heating. […]

“How can we not work?” he asked. “We have to eat.”
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Source: In India, Missing School to Work in the Mine – NYTimes.com
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