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100			_aTara, Ali Baig
245		0	_aOur children
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_b"Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of Indi"
260			_c1979
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520			_aThis book is dedicated to the International Year of the Child, and represents a twenty-three year involvement in child welfare planning and organisation, both in India and abroad. The International Union for Child Welfare, founded in 1919, to which I was elected President in 1977, has the distinction of preparing the first Charter for Children in 1924, which led to the U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child in 1959. The IUCW was also a major instrument, with the Catholic Children's Bureau, in persuading the U.N. General Assembly to make 1979 a U.N. Year dedicated to worldwide promotion of a better deal for children. The first comprehensive book on the Indian Child was written for the Ministry of Education in 1963 by Ika Paul Pont of the International Children's Centre, Paris, and later FAO. An Indian by birth, Ika Paul Pont's passionate advocacy for recognition of a child's potential in India was a major factor in my own deep involvement in work for children. My late husband, Rashid Ali Baig, was the other factor. Without his constant support and understanding, it would have been much harder for me to overcome the problems and sometimes heart-break in work for children, to which much lip service is paid, but which is more often than not, treated with cynicism and indifference. In Indian affairs, it is not a popular subject nor a priority in policy- making even 31 years after Independence. I am grateful to UNICEF for permission to reprint in part Chapter I, The Family and Child, published first in UNICEF's Carnets de L'Enfance in March 1975, and to the India International Centre, New Delhi, for permission to reproduce sections of my three lectures: “Children, our Richest Resource." I am also grateful to the Illustrated Weekly of India for permission to reproduce Chapter IV onthe Working Child from an article published in January 1979.
650			_aChild development
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