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The Functions of the National Human Rights Commission :

NHRC today enjoys a very wide mandate, receiving over 70,000 complaints every year. Through recommendations and requests for inquiries, the Commission seeks to resolve human rights violations across India.
 
Legal proceedings

It also can intervene in human rights proceedings, which may be pending before the court. NHRC officials visit jails to inspect living conditions for inmates incarcerated for treatment, reformation or protection.
 
Instrument of policy

As a body to oversee policy, the NHRC can review and make recommendations in Constitutional and legal safeguards. It can also review international treaties and events that may compromise human rights.
 
Human rights literacy

The NHRC also serves as the basis of human rights literacy in India, initiating awareness of rights through publications, media channels, seminars etc.  Common themes in India's contemporary human rights violation history include labour law, extrajudicial killing, sexual violence and LGBT rights, violence and discrimination against women, children and minorities.
 
Child rights in India: a vital function of the NHRC

Child rights are often considered the most critical of all human rights reforms as they define the future for both current and upcoming Indian generations. “Children's rights” have radically changed; from the middle ages, which refused to recognize the concept of a childhood and saw children work side by side with adults to today’s understanding of nurturing a child's unique identity while providing him access to necessities.
 
Children's rights apply to the special protection and care that minors under the age of 18 are provided. Based on international legislations, these include right to association with both parents, physical protection, food, free education,
healthcare, and legal protection from violence or discrimination.
 
Eglantyne Jebb’s work: the basis of contemporary children’s rights

Contemporary standards for children's rights find their basis in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The influence of the iconic 1923 document by Eglantyne Jebb, the Declaration of the Rights of the Child resonates with child rights to this day after it was adopted by the United Nations. Jebb, founder of 'Save the Children' became a children's rights defender after seeing the suffering of innocent German children in the aftermath of World War I. After participating in a project that imported European newspapers, she was among the first to see the horrifying hardships that children in warring countries were facing. British forces decided to blockade off resources to Germany, and Eglantyne protested, by demonstrating its ill-effects on innocent children.
 
Her vision, of no child anywhere in the world exposed to hunger or hardship forged the strong Save the Children spirit. Once just a fundraising effort for German kids in the wake of World War I, Save the Children grew into a relief initiative that would soon provide aid to projects involving children, including the refugee crisis in Greece and the post-war famine in Soviet Russia. As developing a broader insight towards children's rights, Jebb presented a short concise 'Children's Charter', to the then International Union, which envisioned prioritizing children's needs for any national planning activities.  This was The Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which was soon expanded and inspired the United Nations's 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
 
Conclusion
Clearly, the NHRC, with special regard to children's rights, is a formidable entity. However, while it enjoys formidable legal strength on its panel, it is limited as it can only make recommendations, and cannot enforce decisions. International pressure, from NGOs like Save the Children is often needed to petition the NHRC to convince agencies and government divisions to actively pursue grievances.