Call For Papers: NLU Odisha’s Journal On The Rights Of The Child

National Law University, Odisha’s Centre for Child Rights is inviting submissions for the Journal on the Rights of the Child.

Categories:

1. Original Papers on ongoing research, completed research (4000 -6000 words)

2. Case Commentaries (1500-2000 words)

3. Notes and comments i.e. articles on legal challenges and implementation review of laws on child rights and child protection, in national, sub-national and global space (1500 -2000 words)

4. Book Review (1200 – 1500 words)

5. Numbers at a glance: Fact sheet on child rights / child well-being: One indicator at a time presented visually through info-graphics

6. Juvenile Justice at a glance : Summary and commentary of most important developments in the past 4-6 months gone by (3000 -4000 words)

7. Through the Pop culture lens: Review/commentary on anypop culture content i.e. film/web series/comics/anime etc (1200 – 1500 words)

8. Children in the news: Media scan and commentary on journalism around child rights: the best reportage and the worst reportage of the 4-6 months gone by and the broad trends (2000 – 2500 words)

Theme:

Child Rights Following is a suggestive (non-exhaustive) list of themes for the articles and papers:

1. Any contemporary judgment / legal landscape/ research on child rights, protection, children’s well-being and original data and the authors’ interpretation on it
2. For example (suggestive not exhaustive):

• The emerging trends of teenagers being charged with Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) even in consensual romantic relationships and how does that square up with the Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health (ARSH) focus of the State too
• The latest SC judgment on Prevention of Child Marriage Act and how to not abuse that for undue criminalisation

3. Your article/commentary on any topical development and its impact on children:

For example (suggestive not exhaustive)

• Right to Education in the era of school mergers, closure of schools and para-teachers
• Continued under-funding of health and education sector and its impact on children’s cognitive development, life chances
• Is anonymization possible in the digital age? And is the principle of fresh start condemned to be violated because of over-sharing on social media, digital media ingression and over-present surveillance?
• Is re-integration and rehabilitation possible in case of children charged with heinous offences?

4. Public finance/budget allocation and children: Is the imagination progressive, is the allocation adequate?

5. Any film/web series on children/juvenile justice, your review of the same with a child’s best interest perspective

6. Your critic/commentary on reportage on “children in news’ that stood out for you for how good/bad it was and why and any particular story/article/reportage that worked for you?

7. When they see us: Photo-essay of everyday children in their everyday lives (pre-published with due compliance of consent guidelines in case of minors’ photographs) and what such photos tell the author. (The photos should be from copy-left/open-source platform with no potential copyright infringement liability on the author or the journal)

8. Education/Health/Nutrition/Internet access at a glance: What the numbers speak: Infographically presented fact-sheet

Deadline: 15th January 2025