Kohima, April 23 (MExN): The Kohima District Legal Services Authority (KDLSA) organised a Legal Literacy Programme at Pinewood High School, Kohima on April 22.
According to a press release, the programme was attended by students and teachers of Pinewood High School besides Panel Lawyers, PLVs.
Sunjib Rana, Panel Lawyer (KDLSA) in his opening remarks gave a brief highlight about the Legal Services Authority and its functioning of the Legal Aid clinics and added that the services were being given to the weaker sections of society. Resource persons for the programme were KDLSA Panel Lawyers Thejapfutuo Khezhie, Wapangienla Kichu and Nancy Lotha.
Khezhie spoke on Child Right & protection of Children from Sexual offence (POCSO) Act 2012. He stated that before 2012 there was no special Law for children, but the parliament enacted a law called the "Protection of Children From Sexual Offence (POCSO) Act 2012" for children under the age of 18 years.
Highlighting that 40% of children in India and 53% in the world are facing sexual harassment, he advised the students to avail the child helpline if they face any problems/harassment or inform trustworthy teachers/dear ones.
Kichu spoke on the topic "Protection from Human Trafficking & Child Labour" and stated that human trafficking is one of the fastest growing crimes in the world. Trafficking means the buying and selling of humans especially children, she stated and revealed that a child goes missing every 8 minutes in India.
Viewing that human trafficking is caused mainly due to poverty/lack of education/lack of employment and social media, she stated that the traffickers lure children money/lucrative jobs and also for prostitution.
On Child Labour, she apprised the students to spread the message that having a child below the age of 14 years for domestic help is a serious crime according to the Constitution of India and punishable by law.
Meanwhile resource person Nancy Lotha spoke on the topic “Protection from Online Violence & Cyber Crime” and stated that cyber crime is one of the fastest growing crimes.
Cyber crime is an offence committed against individuals or groups of individuals with a criminal motive to intentionally cause physical/mental harm directly or indirectly using modern technology like chat rooms, e-mails, SMS, MMS.
She added that cyber crimes are also made through social media by creating fake accounts/sending messages from someone else’s account and cautioned the students to refrain from publishing personally sensitive information on any social media platform.
At the end of the programme, clippings were shown to the students on Child Rights and Cyber Crimes.
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