A constitution for children?

<div>Do children have rights? The constitution of India grants equality to every ‘person’, and children are persons and have a right to a safe childhood, free of sexual predators. In this episode of The Longest Constitution listen in to what took so long to draft the first law to penalize child sexual abuse, why this law was made gender-neutral and why just laws are not enough to prevent such crimes. <br><p><br></p></div><div>Pinki Virani, Bitter Chocolate: Child Sexual Abuse In India, Penguin, 2000. </div><div>(&nbsp;<a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/bombay-hc-judgement-child-sexual-abuse-pocso-act-7169159/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/bombay-hc-judgement-child-sexual-abuse-pocso-act-7169159/">https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/bombay-hc-judgement-child-sexual-abuse-pocso-act-7169159/</span></a> )</div><div><br>You can follow Priya on social media:</div><div>Instagram: ( <a href="https://www.instagram.com/naik.priya/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://www.instagram.com/naik.priya/">https://www.instagram.com/naik.priya/</span></a> )</div><div>Twitter: ( <a href="https://twitter.com/fundamentallyp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://twitter.com/fundamentallyp">https://twitter.com/fundamentallyp</span></a> )</div><div>Linkedin: ( <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-mirza-73666310/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-mirza-73666310/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-mirza-73666310/</span></a> )</div><div><br>You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: <a href="https://ivm.today/android" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://ivm.today/android">https://ivm.today/android</span></a> or iOS: ht