Child Sexual Abuse - India

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-tamilnadu/article2696839.ece Dealing with child sexual abuse Special Correspondent Share   ·   print   ·   T+    Boards installed in all Chennai Schools, carrying messages for students RAISING AWARENESS: Children of Chennai Middle School, Arumbakkam, take a look at the messages on personal safety in Chennai on Wednesday. — Photo: K. Pichumani. “Yes, we know what that means,” said the group of class VIII students of Chennai Middle School, Arumbakkam, in chorus. They were responding to a question whether they knew what sexual abuse meant. The interaction between them and Nancy of Tulir - Centre for the Prevention and Healing Child Sexual Abuse, an NGO, on Wednesday highlighted their keen interest in their safety. Students seemed to have heard of instances of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) as well. “Even two days ago, the newspaper had a report on a small girl having been sexually abused,” said one of the students. Havi

http://baradwajrangan.wordpress.com/2011/12/09/the-other-side-of-happily-ever-after/ Lights, Camera, Conversation… “The other side of happily-ever-after” Posted on December 9, 2011 11 Films on subjects that make us sick to the stomach aren’t easy to watch, but then spinach doesn’t taste like sorbet either. I was asked, recently, to view two films – David Schwimmer’s Trust and Nicole Kassell’s The Woodsman – that dealt, in their own ways, with the very troubling reality of child sexual abuse, troubling to watch, definitely, but also to screen for an audience. The authorities that govern these matters, those gods of small things, needed letters from critics and other people associated with the movie industry stating that these films carried no objectionable content and could therefore be screened before a public weaned on movies where the sisters of heroes were regularly raped, where the heroines routinely wo