Article 39: Right of Child

1) Every child shall have the right to name and birth registration along with his or her identity.

2) Every child shall have the right to education, health, maintenance, proper care, sports, entertainment, and overall personality development from the families and the State.

3) Every child shall have the right to elementary child development and child participation.

4) No child shall be employed to work in any factory, mine, or engaged in similar other hazardous work.

5) No child shall be subjected to child marriage, transported illegally, abducted/kidnapped, or taken hostage.

6) No child shall be recruited or used in the army, police, or any armed group, or be subjected, in the name of cultural or religious traditions, to abuse, exclusion, or physical, mental, sexual, or any other form of exploitation or improper use by any means or in any manner.

7) No child shall be subjected to physical, mental, or any other form of torture in a home, school, or other place or situation whatsoever.

8) Every child shall have the right to juvenile-friendly justice.

9) The child who is helpless, an orphan, with disabilities, a conflict victim, displaced, or vulnerable shall have the right to special protection and facilities from the State.

10) Any act contrary to clauses (4), (5), (6), and (7) shall be punishable by law, and a child who is the victim of such an act shall have the right to obtain compensation from the perpetrator, in accordance with law.