4. Arupa Mission Research Foundation
Our Objective
Our Aim
Service to Mankind
and Environment
Establishing a people’s
organisation that
empowers the vulnerable
and is a catalyst in
environment protection
through innovative
measures for achieving
Millennium Development
Goals
Arupa Mission Research Foundation is a change agent empowering people
and catalyzing positive environmental changes on one hand as well as
facilitating for ‘businesses’ to achieve responsible ‘Environment, Social,
Governance’ contributing to inclusive economic growth
7. Arupa Mission Research Foundation
Convention on the
Rights of the Child
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by
General Assembly resolution 44/25 of 20 November 1989 entry
into force 2 September 1990, in accordance with article 49
"the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs
special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection,
before as well as after birth“
Right to dignity, live in an atmosphere of happiness, love and
understanding
Right to social, cultural and economic wellbeing and care
India is a signatory
8. Arupa Mission Research Foundation
Why Saishav?
Study on Child Abuse by Ministry of Women and Child Development, 2007
Out of the total of 2211 respondents, 42% children faced at least one form of sexual abuse or the other.
Among respondents, 48% of boys and 39% of the girls faced sexual abuse.
Prevalence of sexual abuse in upper and middle class was found to be proportionately higher than in lower or in lower
middle class.
Sexual abuse was found to be prevalent in both joint and nuclear families.
Majority of the abusers were people known to the child and strangers were a minority.
Sexual harassment in public places and exhibitionism was higher by strangers.
Sexual abuse of children was very often a pre-planned insidious abuse of a relationship by an abuser over the child.
WHO estimates that 150 million girls and 73 million boys under 18 have experienced forced sexual intercourse or other
forms of sexual violence involving physical contact, though this is certainly an underestimate.
Much of this sexual violence is inflicted by family members or other people residing in or visiting a child's family home-
people normally trusted by children and often responsible for their care.
A review of epidemiological surveys from 21 countries, mainly high- and middle- income countries, found that at least 7%
of females (ranging up to 36%) and 3% of males (ranging up to 29%) reported sexual victimization during their childhood.
According to these studies, between 14% and 56% of the sexual abuse of girls, and up to 25% of the sexual abuse of boys,
was perpetrated by relatives or step parents.
In many places, adults were outspoken about the risk of sexual violence their children faced at school or at play in the
community, but rarely did adults speak of children's risk of sexual abuse within the home and family context.
The shame, secrecy and denial associated with familial sexual violence against children foster a pervasive culture of
silence, where children cannot speak about sexual violence in the home, and where adults do not know what to do or say
if they suspect someone they know is sexually abusing a child.13
18. Arupa Mission Research Foundation
Recognition
for our work
With Kiran Bapna –Head Education Partnership, Google India
Presentation on or Programme- Saishav
With Kiran Bapna –Head Education Partnership, Google India
Visitors being sensitized on the
subject of child abuse
and the Saishav Programme
