Child Sexual Abuse - India

Safe Schools: Supporting schools  address child sexual abuse, holistically is  the theme  this time of  Tulir - Center for the Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse ‘s  continuing workshop series   - Connecting the Dots . They  will be held  in   Chennai  between  October 15 – 17, 2018 .    Topics in order of presentation ( Scroll down for details ) 1.  POCSO,  EDUCATORS & SCHOOLS 2.  DESIGNING A HOLISTIC CHILD PROTECTION SYSTEM FORPRIMARY SCHOOLS (K-5) 3. AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSONAL SAFETY EDUCATION – CONCEPTS & PRACTISE 4. PREVENTION OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE: DEALING WITH SEXUAL MISBEHAVIORS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN   The lead facilitator  will be Dr. Lois J Engelbrecht , who  has helped create systems of prevention and response to sexual abuse of children  in the  Phillippines, Malaysia, China, India, Saudi Arabia, Ghana and Vietnam. Read more about Dr Engelbrecht  at     http://www.waldenu.edu/about/ news

Protecting children is no longer an option – it is a responsibility vested in each one of us.   And schools are at the front line of child protection w ith a large part of the truly "awake" time of a child's waking hours being spent at school. N eedless to state the school and the community of educators are one of the most significant aspects of a child's  world and we also know that educators care for their students and their welfare and safety at all times. A school’s integrity and worth is not based on whether cases of  sexual  violence   happen to children on its rolls. Instead it is based on the acceptance of the possibilities of  occurrence and preemptive steps taken to  both safeguard and respond in a timely and appropriate way to ensure that its children may benefit from its caring and foresight to truly have the right to be safe all the time, everywhere.   Besides being legally liable, schools have an ethical

 http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/union-cabinet-approves-ordinance-for-death-penalty-for-rape-of-girls-under-12-years/article23626717.ece?homepage=true  Did the Cabinet and PM have the humility and respect to ask adults who have been sexually abused as children whether they would like their abusers/s put to death?What was the reason in the first place they did not disclose let alone report the abuse? Seems the Cabinet in its joint and collective myopic wisdom believes that the stringency of the punishment will be a deterrent to committing a rape on a girl child below 12 years. If only the expediency and certainty of justice can be ensured, will anyone be deterred. Ask anyone who has tangled with the labyrinth of the criminal justice system! And even if they endure for the years it takes for a trial to come to conclusion..." It is not clea r how a harsher punishment would be deterrent when only 3 out of 10 men charged with raping minors are convicted. The rema

 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/feb/17/child-witnesses-one-girl-evidence-hamster They might be victims of rape, or witnesses to murder. But can they really be relied upon to tell the truth at trial? Rachel Williams Sat 17 Feb 2018 08.00 GMT Last modified on Tue 20 Feb 2018 17.23 GMT Toys in a playroom run by Triangle, an organisation that helps children give evidence. Photograph: Lydia Goldblatt for the Guardian I n the playroom, perched high above suburban rooftops, it feels as if you’re sailing in a sturdy little boat. Outside, beyond the fields, the sea is a strip of hazy grey-blue that glows silver where it meets the sky. Here on the floor is the scattered residue of a child at play: plastic tractors and fire engines spilling from a big red box, half-done puzzles, doll’s house furniture left awry. On a shelf sit the smiling knitted figures of a policeman and circuit judge, the details meticulously render