Educational Quest: An Int. J. of Education and Applied Social Sciences: Vol. 13, No. 01, pp. 57-61, April 2022 DOI: 10.30954/2230-7311.1.2022.10 Peer Reviewed Journal How to cite this article: Chahal, D. and Kumar, R. (2022). Harmful Practices Affecting Child Rights Across Cultures: Reflections over Asian and African Countries. Educational Quest: An Int. J. Edu. Appl. Soc. Sci., 13(01): 57-61. Source of Support: None; Conflict of Interest: None Harmful Practices Affecting Child Rights Across Cultures: Reflections over Asian and African Countries Dinesh Chahal* and Raj Kumar School of Education, Central University of Haryana, Haryana, India *Corresponding author: dineshchahal@cuh.ac.in Received: 17-01-2022 Revised: 31-03-2022 Accepted: 14-04-2022 ABSTRACT Harmful practices across the culture are not a new phenomenon. It has its roots in centuries ago. Many initiatives have been taken across the world to protect children/ girls from these malpractices. UN General Assembly 1954 refected on laws and practices related to family and Marriage. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is a milestone document in the history of human rights. While taking into consideration the health of the women, traditional practices that afected their health was discussed in the commission on human rights 1984. This UN convention on child rights afrms the full development of the personality of the child and asserts to have a healthy family environment, an atmosphere of happiness and protection of children from all forms of violence across the world. The aim of this conceptual endeavour is to refect on harmful practices practised across cultures, especially in Asian and African countries with respect to violation of child rights. Data has been gathered from various governmental and nongovernmental reports, research papers, articles and surveys. The analysis in the study is done on the basis of secondary sources of the data. Data with respect to harmful traditional practices across cultures and violation of child rights is presented from secondary sources. It has been found that many traditional harmful practices such as Corporal punishment, grotesque practice, branding of the child, Acid atack, binding of newborns and infants, bloodleting, Breast Ironing, and genital mutilation. Bleeding and cupping, male circumcision, milk tooth extraction, tatooing. Cauterization, cupping and scarifcation, Use of the cradle, Early and forced marriages, and Dowry and bride prizes are prevalent. Keywords: Child Rights, Culture, Asian and African Countries, Harmful Practices Adopting the child rights approach is the responsibility of the state to provide proper child care and protection. Promoting and respecting human dignity is very much essential, especially in the states where the democratic form of government is. Not only in democratic but around the world children’s vulnerability requires the transparent address to protect them from traditional and cultural practices across the world. It implies the principle of human rights, human dignity, human respect, child rights, child care and protection. The violation against children in the family neighbourhood and other places based on harmful practices in cultures, and traditions are being addressed by various international treaties commitees and legislation to eradicate it from the ground. Still, the young children around the world perpetrated violence and victim harmful practices of culture, tradition and religion without the consent of the children. Sometimes parents force them to do some task against their capacity and capability. It is very much essential for parents to make a positive atitude towards the health and care and development of the children, corporal punishment and cruelty against children in the family for the full development