Child Sexual Abuse - India

The Yellow Bow campaign - yellow paper bows were distributed to the public who were encouraged to display it as a show of their solidarity and support to prevent child abuse.

The SUBWAY staff in Spenzer Plaza - Proud to be supporters of Yellow Bow campaign

The Tulir Kiosk - From small beginnings in Nov 2004, with only one booklet and one bronchure our portfolio of resource materials is now in double figures.

Spenzer Plaza, 2 pm - 7.30 pm, Sunday November 19th 2006 - An exposition of posters by Chennai`s leading advertising agencies.

This powerful but provocative message says it all.

A view of interested onlookers.

Disturbing, unimaginable but true. A poster which talks about the hardly accepted fact that boys could also be sexually abused .

Chennai-based NGO Tulir awarded International Prize for Child abuse Prevention The Chennai-based non-governmental organization Tulir-CPHCSA (Centre for the Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse) has been awarded this year’s prestigious WWSF’s First Prize for “Prevention of Child Abuse” among over 600 organizations from 110 countries. This award is given every year by the Geneva-headquartered Women’s World Summit Foundation (WWSF) to four organizations that carry out innovative child sex abuse preventive initiatives in their countries. The first Indian organization to be conferred with this award, Tulir ( which in Tamil means the first leaves of a plant or leaves after a period of adversity), was set up in August 2004 with a vision of propagating the awareness that it is the right of every child to feel safe from sexual abuse at all times, and also to equip children, families and other stakeholders to prevent and deal effectively with this fundamental violation of childhood that

This simple but powerful slogan on strategically placed haordings around Chennai has become a annual feature of Tulir`s advocacy activities for Nov 19.