"There is no way left for us unless we make the society aware and conscious of the Rights of a Child," she said. "We are working hard towards this goal and believe that we will overcome the barriers soon," she added.

Finding solace on the street a few years ago, after experiencing horrible abuse, Nupur, talking to the Star City said that she thought her life was over she was destroyed and was a burden to herself. "But the sense of my rights created an inner urge and desperation to stand to establish these rights and this sense made me strong," she said.

At 14, she is aware of the vulnerability of children in the harsh grip of society and learnt by paying a high price that males can lure the young with soft words.

Nupur now works to establish child rights and talks to children on the hidden dangers of society. Besides this she also continues with her education.

At the moment she is preparing to celebrate the Child Rights Week on September 29. She said that awareness of violation against child rights has increased but the incidents are not.

The reason, she said, was that she usually trains children on the hidden dangers at Osmani Uddayan and every day she sees new faces. "I realise that violation of child rights still continues," she said. She has trained around 75 children and now these children are working like her.

Toma Roy, a class 10 commerce student of Naznin High School at East Razabazar wants to be an accountant.

She too is a working street child and believes that some day child rights will be established in the country.

A rights campaigner, Toma said: "Of course I believe in our victory as we labouring heavily to establish our rights."

When asked why she is into these activities instead of trying to secure her own future, she said: "I don't want any child facing the same problems I faced and watch society's brutality."

She said she campaigns against child abuse, child trafficking, early marriage, unsafe sex and drugs.

About the problems child face in society, she replied: "It is a long list, but I will say that, no one in the government, police and family want to pay heed to children and listen to their opinions. We have to win over the situation as we have no alternative to establishing our rights."

When Star City met Khorshed, another working street child, he was busy in counselling two others children who live together, where one had abused other.

He said that his family wants him back after eight long years and he was very confused. He said that he had established himself as a painter during these years.

His father is an influential transport leader at Chadpur, and was forced to get on to the streets because of the repression by his stepmother.

He said, "I begged, worked as operator room boy at cinema halls and sales boy in the grocery shops after running away. I tried to continue my study although not regularly as arranging a meal twice a day was a tough job."

About the confusion of going home, he said, "I enjoy campaigning for child rights as it is this sense that made me an independent individual now and I know that repressors are powerful than the repressed."

He said, he believes, that some day the situation will change and somebody has to work hard for that change.

"I should not leave these vulnerable children, should I? If I leave them now, how will they establish their rights?" he asked.

A top official of the women and child affairs ministry said that a gulf of problems exist in establishing child rights in the country.

"But we have projects for the children, which provide for aid different types of children and we are trying hard to work on more projects to establish child rights," he said.