Child grooming: India must take measures to protect children from online sexual abuse: Earlier this month, newspapers reported that a 13-year-old girl from Tirupur was lured and raped by a 21-year-old man in Chennai. What makes this incident even more shocking is that the rapist had befriended the victim first on Facebook and sexually assaulted…
Zero policing of child porn in India: Even as the Supreme Court on Wednesday constituted a committee of representatives to explore technical solutions and block videos of rape and child pornography from being circulated on social media, a married woman from East Champaran district of Bihar filed a complaint against five men of her village…
Aadhaar for street children on cards: New Delhi, Jan 18 (PTI) Street children will be provided Aadhaar cards to enable them to take admission in schools and access government health services. The Standard Operating Procedure for Care and Protection of Children in Street Situations, approved by the Women and Child Development Ministry and due for…
Parental support needed for children accessing the internet, say experts: Child rights experts pointed out that with the rapid rise in the number of smartphone and internet users, there has also been increasing concern over the welfare and safety of children in the country. In a move to raise awareness about online and digital safety…
A simple classroom comment box has finally begun to chip away at the silence that has shrouded pervasive child sexual abuse in India for generations. India’s Ministry of Women and Child Development, in a 2007 study, found that more than half of all children surveyed had suffered some form of sexual abuse but had not…
HYDERABAD: Vijay Mogli was dragged out of the hostel of Hyderabad Public School on wintry nights, stripped nude, made to do frog jumps or imitate Mehmood’s and Johnny Lever’s fake Tamizh accents. Sometimes he resisted – when pencils, erasers and chalk pieces were pushed up his posterior – only to be footballed and kicked. Amidst…
NEW DELHI: Being teased over a Facebook post, online abuse due to a malicious SMS or MMS,cybertrolling . Armed with access to mobile phones, an increasing number of children from middle-class homes are turning to the 24-hour emergency response service Childline with their cyber woes . The national children’s helpline–set up to address concerns of…
RAJKOT: A 22-year-old college girl from Ahmedabad has exposed the scourge that government agencies have conveniently turned a blind eye to. Jharna Joshi, a bachelors of business administration (BBA) student, undertook a covert operation to rescue as many as 111 child labourers from one of the biggest ceramic units in Morbi. The children, of whom…
KOCHI: In wake of increasing incidence of child sexual abuse (CSA), a workshop on CSA and its effective management was conducted by the Department of Clinical Psychology, Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in association with the Ernakulam Chapter of the Indian Association of Clinical Psychologists- Kerala Region. Anita Sunil, Clinical Psychologist at the Dubai Foundation…
Taking up the matter of rampant child labour in the state, a Delhi-based lawyer on Friday addressed a petition to chief minister Vasundhara Raje as well as the national commissions for child and human rights and the Union ministry for women and child welfare. The matter became urgent after a Hindi daily on Friday reported…