Awareness

Critical awareness of ones rights and the situation which violates these rights is a pre condition for realizing the rights. Rights must be asserted and exercised rather than being granted. The situation of children, particularly in India is violative of childrens rights to survival, development, protection and participation. Often the situation is being passively accepted as given and cannot be changed. However awareness of the situation and the rights points to the possibilities of resisting violations and creating better situations.