New midday meal norms ‘inhuman’: Teachers and Anganwadi workers in Rajasthan have spoken out against the Centre’s recent decision to link the midday meal scheme to Aadhaar, saying it would completely disrupt the process of food distribution and teaching and learning. Read More
Prevent Uploading Of Rape Videos, Child Porn: Amicus To Centre: The amicus curiae in the matter where Supreme Court took suo motu cognizance of gangrape videos circulating on the internet has asked the government to take all steps to prevent uploading and dissemination of rape videos, revenge porn, child pornogra…Read More
Ministry plans cell to check online child pornography: THE CENTRE is set to institute a cell within the Union Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) as part of its plans to set up a national alliance against child pornography content on the Internet. Women and Child Development Minister Maneka Gandhi said the decision was…
The programme was held in Interpol headquarter located in Lyon, France from November 14-18 where representatives from 192 countries discussed on ways in combating online child sexual abuse and guidelines on protecting the identity of young victims.
NEW DELHI, Sept 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Reports of human trafficking in India increased by 25 percent in 2015 compared to the previous year, with more than 40 percent of cases involving children being bought, sold and exploited as modern day slaves, government crime data showed. The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) said there…
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…
NAGPUR: With an aim to sensitize children about the threats posed by cyberspace and crime, the Saraswati Vidyalaya Alumni Association (SVAA) organized a talk for schoolchildren.
Delivering the talk, SVVA member and cyber expert Sulabha Patil said that today’s children are exposed to the internet at a very young age.
In the middle of 2014, Nalini Goel*, a newly confirmed resident of the United States of America, realised that she had had enough. Her abusive husband had almost killed her once, had hospitalised her several more times including when she was pregnant and had even threatened her daughter when she was born.
Teenagers in India are at a greater risk of encountering threats on their mobile devices, says a study. 54 percent of the respondents say that young adults are more likely to commit mobile-related crime like revenge porn. The study by Norton by Symantec that consisted of 1,005 Indian smartphone and tablet users aged 16 years…
In yet another horrific case of child pornography, a Chennai couple has been arrested for operating a child porn website and also trying to sell videos and porn images to clients who registered with them.Based on a tip-off, the Tamil Nadu cyber crime wing of the CB-CID arrested accused Siddharth Velu and his wife Priscilla,…