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CRY brings Child Rights to the Forefront at the House of Lords

October 2004

Ingrid Srinath, Chief Executive Officer, Child Relief & You (CRY), made a presentation on the factors impacting lives of children in India to the House of Lords in London. Renowned development economist, Lord Meghnad Desai, attended the presentation along with other Indian dignitaries, like Lord Dholakia.

Drawing from CRYs experience of 25 years in social transformation at the grass roots level, Ms Srinath presented the paper on:

How globalization is impacting the lives of children, especially the underprivileged.

The need to rethink some of the policy choices underlying globalization in order to safeguard childrens rights and protect their interests.

The vision for CRYUK and the participation sought to further its mission.

Speaking on her visit to the House of Lords, Ms Srinath said, Over the past 25 years CRY has worked in India to ensure the rights of children. CRY believes it is the responsibility of like-minded organizations and agencies to put forth the diverse issues of children such as child labour, gender, caste, child abuse, health and education to the international arena to bring about a change.

She further added, CRY has raised 12.5 million pounds and disbursed 6.5 million pounds to hundreds of grassroots initiatives across India working on diverse issues on child rights. Drawing from its experiences in social transformation at the grassroots level, CRY accepted the invitation to present a paper to the House of Lords on children related issues.

Ms Srinaths presentation highlighted on how children experience discrimination on account of their gender, caste, race, ethnicity and class, just as adults do; they also experience a distinctive marginalization on account of being children. Her presentation focused on how children in India are being affected by macro processes, decisions and policies made at the national and international level.

Lord Meghnad Desai said, Poverty is one of the key problems facing India and the underprivileged children. The voluntary action in India can help to give a better life to the poor in India especially the children, like what CRY has been doing. The Diaspora should take the initiative and the responsibility to help the poor children in India.

About Ingrid Srinath

With a PGDM from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, Ingrid has over 11 years of experience in the advertising industry. She was AVP with Trikaya Grey (now Grey Worldwide) and General Manager with Lintas (now Lowe) before joining CRY. Ingrid joined CRY in 1998 as Regional Manager- Mumbai then moved on as Director - Resource Mobilisation in 1999 before becoming CEO in 2004.

CRY

CRY-Child Relief and You is an Indian trust started and managed by Indians for underprivileged Indian children. CRY was founded in 1979, 25 years ago. CRYs objective is to demonstrate that real, sustainable change is possible through the building of grassroots models and through concerted advocacy of the basic rights of children survival, protection, development and participation. Over the last 25 years, CRY has raised GBP 1,25,00,000 and disbursed GBP 65,00,000 to 171 grassroot initiatives across India on diverse issues including child labour, gender and caste discrimination, child abuse, health and education.

As a non-governmental organization, CRY receives no direct government funding, permitting independence in deployment priorities and to make unbiased evaluations of government policies and programmes. CRY is governed by values of respect for human dignity, working in partnership, transparency, accountability, secularism, non-violence and innovation.