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TULIR - CENTRE FOR THE PREVENTION & HEALING OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE INVITES YOU TO THE BATTLE OF THE BUFFET ON 1ST OCTOBER 2009 A UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO SUPPORT OUR CAUSE IN THE JOY OF GIVING WEEK We are delighted to invite you to participate in the Battle of the Buffet. This event completely sponsored by Oriental Cuisines, brings you a lavish spread of the buffets from Chennai’s top 5 star restaurants on Oct. 1, 2009. The evening will also see celebrities endorsing and participating in the event. About the Joy of Giving Week( http://www.joyofgivingweek.org/ ) Joy of Giving Week is a special week which aims to bring people, from all walks of life, together to get involved with a cause(s) of their choice. It will be a concerted effort across companies, celebrities, business heads, NGOs, schools, colleges, and the ‘general public’, to create a movement of “giving”. The Week is slated from September 27- October 3, 2009, and we expect more than 1 crore Indians from all over India to parti...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/NEWS-City-Delhi-Child-rights-panel-opposes-any-dilution-of-Section-377/articleshow/4790729.cms NEW DELHI: The Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) has come out strongly against the dilution of provisions criminalising gay sex. The commission has expressed concern that the dilution of Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code can have a "serious impact" on the emotional and sexual behaviour of children and adolescents in the country. Referring to the recent Delhi High Court order that legalised gay sex, DCPCR said it also opposed "deletion" of Section 377 of IPC and had sent its views to the Union home and law ministries. "The definition of consensual and non-consensual sex may get blurred in some cases. Moreover, the judgment says anyone above 18 is an adult and can give consent in such cases. But there are adolescents who may be 18 years old but do not have the adequate decision-making ability," DCPCR chair...

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Tulir’s Sixth Annual Public Workshop - “An Overview and Understanding of working against Child Sexual Abuse”, will be held on August 17 & 18, 2009 at Chennai. The cost of the workshop which will be in Tamil is Rs.1500/per person. Vegetarian lunch, tea and workshop materials will be provided. Registration is limited to the first 40 persons against advance payment and will close by Aug. 5, 2009. For registration, please contact tulircphcsa@yahoo.co.in or call 26192026 (10 am – 6 pm, Monday – Friday) The workshop would give a basic understanding of CSA by discussing the various aspects of the crime and their convergence to form a composite picture. This would lay the foundation on which participants could develop a knowledge base to further work on the subject of child protection either in terms of policy planning and program development or skill enhancement. In the absence of specialized training it would also assist participants to respond to cases of CSA appropriately within ...

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Date:06/07/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/07/06/stories/2009070654590500.htm Tamil Nadu - Madurai Joint effort to tackle child sexual abuse Special Correspondent MADURAI: A collective effort, involving teachers and officials of School Education Department, will be launched against child sexual abuse through all schools in the State. P. Peruamalsamy, Director of School Education, told The Hindu here on Saturday that tackling child sexual abuse would be made a component of adolescent education and counselling. “This is a sensitive issue…and teachers/headmasters in all schools will have to be sensitised to prevent incidents of child sex abuse.” He was in the city to address the first awareness programme for District Educational Officers on ‘Prevention of child sexual abuse,’ organised by the Directorate of School Education, with UNICEF funding. Earlier, addressing the DEOs, Mr. Perumalsamy said that the message to be vigilant against child abuse must reach teachers in every schoo...

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Now-confusion-over-age-of-consent-/articleshow/4739382.cms Now, confusion over age of consent 5 Jul 2009, 0413 hrs IST, Manoj Mitta, TNN NEW DELHI: For all its efforts to rationalize an archaic law with its historic verdict on Section 377 of the IPC, the Delhi high court could not help adding to the confusion on what constitutes the legal age for consent for homosexuals and heterosexuals in various situations. The consent age fixed by the high court for homosexuals is two years higher than the statutory bar for heterosexuals engaging in the common form of lovemaking, namely, "penile vaginal sex". While decriminalizing consensual sex between adult homosexuals, the HC verdict has fixed the consent age for them as 18 years. "A person below 18 would be presumed not to be able to consent to a sexual act," it said. This is a departure from the consent age of 16 years for a woman fixed by Section 375 IPC for a man to escape the char...

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