Although child sexual abuse is prevalent in our society, many of the parents and children are unaware that it is happening against them. We do not have specific mechanism to aware and enable children, parents, teachers or the community members about protecting children against these abuses. Moreover, children are seldom encouraged to speak about sex. This has resulted into hiding of the cases although they have been victimized of it.
YOUTH IN BLACK CAP is a movement against increasing incidences of child sexual abuse It is a peaceful movement to inform and aware communities about the increasing incidences of child sexual abuse and pressurize policy level higher officials/authorities, parliamentarians and law makers for the formulation and implementation of create child protective and friendly laws policies and programs. This is a youth led social movement where the youngsters put on black cap, hold a candle, different handbills and posters related to child sex abuse and stand in the main junctions of the city without hindering the traffic. This movement will be organized every Friday morning from 9-10. Before the organization of the movement, youths will be oriented about the concept of the movement and motivate them to be the part of the campaign. To make the movement throughout the country, local NGOs operating in the district level and youth will be mobilized. CWISH and Dynamic Youth Forum who envisioned the movement will coordinate with different organizations and make a coordination committee to launch the movement from central level. The secretariat of the committee will be in CWISH office, Buddhanagar. The organizations involved in the movement will have active participation. Interested individuals without institutional affiliation can also make voluntary contribution and take part actively in the movement. Coordination committee will provide technical support in need. The movement will be launched in 19 November which is also celebrated as world’s day against child abuse. On this occasion letter of demand will also be submitted to the prime minister.
The policy brief, "IS BENUE STATE GOVERNMENT COMMITTED TO CREATING A PEACEFUL AND PROTECTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL CITIZENS TO THRIVE?" By Nathaniel Msen Awuapila who is Executive Facilitator/CEO CORAFID has as its purpose and objective to address three key questions relating to: The state of human security in Benue State; The circumstance of women, youths, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and children; and, how Benue State Government can create a peaceful and protective. environment for all citizens to thrive in the State.
More than half of the women in India are married before the legal minimum age of 18. By contrast, men in the same age group get married at a median age of 23.4 years. Sixteen percent of men aged 20-49 are married by age 18 and 28 percent by age 20.
HAQ: Center for Child Rights
B1/2, Ground Floor,
Malviya Nagar
New Delhi - 110017
Tel: +91-26677412,26673599
Fax: +91-26674688
Website: www.haqcrc.org
FaceBook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HaqCentreForChildRights
Partnerships: A Panacea to end Child Marriages in Bindura and Mount Darwin Di...AJHSSR Journal
ABSTRACT: Child marriages have become a thorny issue in Zimbabwe even though the country‟s 2013
Constitution has clauses which try to curtail such abuses. Zimbabwe‟s Mashonaland Central province is no
exception, as the phenomenon is rampant in the province‟s two districts of Bindura and Mount Darwin. This
research is an effort to establish the reasons why children engage in marriages in Bindura and Mount Darwin
districts of Mashonaland Central province. Using the phenomenological research design, the study sought to:
establish the causes of child marriages; analyze the gender and ages of children most affected by child
marriages; and to analyze the current mechanisms in place to protect children against child marriages in the two
districts. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative approaches with interviews and questionnaires
administered to a sample of 66 participants. The findings were that the causes of child marriages included
harmful religious practices, poor policies, poverty, lack of access to education, and death of a child‟s
parents.The study further found that on gender basis, females are affectedmore by child marriages as compared
to males. In addition, there was lack of partnership between the government and other organizations in the fight
to end child marriages. The major recommendation of the study is that the government should enter into
partnership with other organizations in the province to deal with the problem of child marriages. Also, income
generating projects and civic education should be put in place to empower children and promote their rights.
Sound guidance and counselling services should beproffered to assist the affected children.
A regional audit to explore the child sexual exploitation knowledge and training needs of healthcare staff.
Dr Jane Appleton
Dr. Catherine Powell,
Dr. Nick Pike,
Sarah Howcutt
Oxford Brookes University
YOUTH IN BLACK CAP is a movement against increasing incidences of child sexual abuse It is a peaceful movement to inform and aware communities about the increasing incidences of child sexual abuse and pressurize policy level higher officials/authorities, parliamentarians and law makers for the formulation and implementation of create child protective and friendly laws policies and programs. This is a youth led social movement where the youngsters put on black cap, hold a candle, different handbills and posters related to child sex abuse and stand in the main junctions of the city without hindering the traffic. This movement will be organized every Friday morning from 9-10. Before the organization of the movement, youths will be oriented about the concept of the movement and motivate them to be the part of the campaign. To make the movement throughout the country, local NGOs operating in the district level and youth will be mobilized. CWISH and Dynamic Youth Forum who envisioned the movement will coordinate with different organizations and make a coordination committee to launch the movement from central level. The secretariat of the committee will be in CWISH office, Buddhanagar. The organizations involved in the movement will have active participation. Interested individuals without institutional affiliation can also make voluntary contribution and take part actively in the movement. Coordination committee will provide technical support in need. The movement will be launched in 19 November which is also celebrated as world’s day against child abuse. On this occasion letter of demand will also be submitted to the prime minister.
The policy brief, "IS BENUE STATE GOVERNMENT COMMITTED TO CREATING A PEACEFUL AND PROTECTIVE ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL CITIZENS TO THRIVE?" By Nathaniel Msen Awuapila who is Executive Facilitator/CEO CORAFID has as its purpose and objective to address three key questions relating to: The state of human security in Benue State; The circumstance of women, youths, persons with disabilities (PWDs), and children; and, how Benue State Government can create a peaceful and protective. environment for all citizens to thrive in the State.
More than half of the women in India are married before the legal minimum age of 18. By contrast, men in the same age group get married at a median age of 23.4 years. Sixteen percent of men aged 20-49 are married by age 18 and 28 percent by age 20.
HAQ: Center for Child Rights
B1/2, Ground Floor,
Malviya Nagar
New Delhi - 110017
Tel: +91-26677412,26673599
Fax: +91-26674688
Website: www.haqcrc.org
FaceBook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HaqCentreForChildRights
Partnerships: A Panacea to end Child Marriages in Bindura and Mount Darwin Di...AJHSSR Journal
ABSTRACT: Child marriages have become a thorny issue in Zimbabwe even though the country‟s 2013
Constitution has clauses which try to curtail such abuses. Zimbabwe‟s Mashonaland Central province is no
exception, as the phenomenon is rampant in the province‟s two districts of Bindura and Mount Darwin. This
research is an effort to establish the reasons why children engage in marriages in Bindura and Mount Darwin
districts of Mashonaland Central province. Using the phenomenological research design, the study sought to:
establish the causes of child marriages; analyze the gender and ages of children most affected by child
marriages; and to analyze the current mechanisms in place to protect children against child marriages in the two
districts. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative approaches with interviews and questionnaires
administered to a sample of 66 participants. The findings were that the causes of child marriages included
harmful religious practices, poor policies, poverty, lack of access to education, and death of a child‟s
parents.The study further found that on gender basis, females are affectedmore by child marriages as compared
to males. In addition, there was lack of partnership between the government and other organizations in the fight
to end child marriages. The major recommendation of the study is that the government should enter into
partnership with other organizations in the province to deal with the problem of child marriages. Also, income
generating projects and civic education should be put in place to empower children and promote their rights.
Sound guidance and counselling services should beproffered to assist the affected children.
A regional audit to explore the child sexual exploitation knowledge and training needs of healthcare staff.
Dr Jane Appleton
Dr. Catherine Powell,
Dr. Nick Pike,
Sarah Howcutt
Oxford Brookes University
Creating a Non-Violent Juvenile JusticeThomas Müller
Child Helpline International is part of the "International NGO Council of Violence against Children", which developed this report. This report from creates an enriching
vision of a non-violent juvenile justice system.
The vision is no more than the fulfillment of states’
obligations under international law to create a distinct
and separate justice system which takes account of
the special status of the child, focuses exclusively on
rehabilitation and reintegration and protects the child
from all forms of violence.
SisterReach’s new report, "Our Voices And Experiences Matter" examines findings from their series of focus groups with teens, parents and teachers who live and work in marginalized communities regarding the need for comprehensive reproductive and sexual health education and makes policy recommendations to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes in Memphis (Shelby County) and the state of Tennessee.
Marriage and Divorce among Adolescents: Before and After COVID19, why we can'...Young Lives Oxford
For many young people, adolescence is a time when the world opens up as they choose their future paths. But for those living in the most marginalised families, their choices remain limited. Twelve million girls are still married under the age of 18 every year, and UN agencies warn of a doubling of this number due to the coronavirus pandemic.
This presentation was delivered on the 19th of May, as part of a webinar, organised by Young Lives, Child Frontiers, Girls not Brides and GreeneWorks, and included a presentation from WHO's Chandra Mouli.
The webinar brought together Girls Not Brides’ Agenda for Action in the face of COVID-19, new research from Young Lives and Child Frontiers on married, cohabiting and divorced adolescents, and GreeneWorks’ research on the pathways and obstacles to leaving child, early, and forced marriage.
Understanding Nigerian Youths' Perception of Sexual ConsentYouthHubAfrica
Since the beginning of the lockdown since April 2020, there has been an increase in reported cases of sexual abuse in Nigeria. Although past data shows that sexual abuse in the country has always been high—the 2019 NOI Polls stated that one in three girls would have experienced sexual assault before they are twenty-five years old
Rosana Morgado, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil – Violence prevention: how to ensure parenting support, Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support, UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti Florence 26-27 May 2014
Prezentācija konferencē "Bērnu sociāla iekļaušana kā antisociālas uzvedības novēršanas metode".
Konference tika rīkota projekta "Bērnu antisociālās uzvedības mazināšana: agrīnās prevencijas modeļi” ietvaros.
Projektu finansiāli atbalsta Islande, Lihtenšteina un Norvēģija NVO projektu programmas ietvaros.
NVO projektu programmu tiek finansēta ar Eiropas Ekonomikas zonas finanšu instrumenta un Latvijas valsts finansiālu atbalstu.
Plašāka informācija: ,
http://www.providus.lv/public/27880.html
www.sif.lv
www.eeagrants.org
www.eeagrants.lv
How to empower youth to become engaged & make an impact on policy?Karl Donert
This presentation introduces the YouthMetre Project. A youth-based project funded as a forward-looking project to engage young people in policy making.
YouthMetre is an exciting project that empowers young people to connect with policy makers in order to improve the youth policies in local authorities, regions and countries in Europe.
YouthMetre creates an innovative tool that will give young people access, via a digital data dashboard, to information about how well their policymakers are performing in different youth fields. Examples of best practices are presented in order to help authorities improve their activities.
Creating a Non-Violent Juvenile JusticeThomas Müller
Child Helpline International is part of the "International NGO Council of Violence against Children", which developed this report. This report from creates an enriching
vision of a non-violent juvenile justice system.
The vision is no more than the fulfillment of states’
obligations under international law to create a distinct
and separate justice system which takes account of
the special status of the child, focuses exclusively on
rehabilitation and reintegration and protects the child
from all forms of violence.
SisterReach’s new report, "Our Voices And Experiences Matter" examines findings from their series of focus groups with teens, parents and teachers who live and work in marginalized communities regarding the need for comprehensive reproductive and sexual health education and makes policy recommendations to improve sexual and reproductive health outcomes in Memphis (Shelby County) and the state of Tennessee.
Marriage and Divorce among Adolescents: Before and After COVID19, why we can'...Young Lives Oxford
For many young people, adolescence is a time when the world opens up as they choose their future paths. But for those living in the most marginalised families, their choices remain limited. Twelve million girls are still married under the age of 18 every year, and UN agencies warn of a doubling of this number due to the coronavirus pandemic.
This presentation was delivered on the 19th of May, as part of a webinar, organised by Young Lives, Child Frontiers, Girls not Brides and GreeneWorks, and included a presentation from WHO's Chandra Mouli.
The webinar brought together Girls Not Brides’ Agenda for Action in the face of COVID-19, new research from Young Lives and Child Frontiers on married, cohabiting and divorced adolescents, and GreeneWorks’ research on the pathways and obstacles to leaving child, early, and forced marriage.
Understanding Nigerian Youths' Perception of Sexual ConsentYouthHubAfrica
Since the beginning of the lockdown since April 2020, there has been an increase in reported cases of sexual abuse in Nigeria. Although past data shows that sexual abuse in the country has always been high—the 2019 NOI Polls stated that one in three girls would have experienced sexual assault before they are twenty-five years old
Rosana Morgado, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil – Violence prevention: how to ensure parenting support, Expert Consultation on Family and Parenting Support, UNICEF Office of Research – Innocenti Florence 26-27 May 2014
Prezentācija konferencē "Bērnu sociāla iekļaušana kā antisociālas uzvedības novēršanas metode".
Konference tika rīkota projekta "Bērnu antisociālās uzvedības mazināšana: agrīnās prevencijas modeļi” ietvaros.
Projektu finansiāli atbalsta Islande, Lihtenšteina un Norvēģija NVO projektu programmas ietvaros.
NVO projektu programmu tiek finansēta ar Eiropas Ekonomikas zonas finanšu instrumenta un Latvijas valsts finansiālu atbalstu.
Plašāka informācija: ,
http://www.providus.lv/public/27880.html
www.sif.lv
www.eeagrants.org
www.eeagrants.lv
How to empower youth to become engaged & make an impact on policy?Karl Donert
This presentation introduces the YouthMetre Project. A youth-based project funded as a forward-looking project to engage young people in policy making.
YouthMetre is an exciting project that empowers young people to connect with policy makers in order to improve the youth policies in local authorities, regions and countries in Europe.
YouthMetre creates an innovative tool that will give young people access, via a digital data dashboard, to information about how well their policymakers are performing in different youth fields. Examples of best practices are presented in order to help authorities improve their activities.
This presentation considers the possibility of a second recession in the face of the ongoing European Debt Crisis, misguided attempts to address the crisis through austerity and struggling world economies. It also reflects on the impact of the probable break-up of EU’s currency union, measures to avert the scenario and vulnerable positions of the economies of the USA, China and India to more trouble in the Euro-zone.
The doomsday scenario has been summarized by Martin Wolf of Financial Times (May 17, 2012):
“The mechanisms at work would be powerful: bank runs; the imposition of (illegal) exchange controls; legal uncertainties; asset price collapses; unpredictable shifts in balance sheets; freezing of the financial system; disruption of central banking; collapse in spending and trade; and enormous shifts in the exchange rates of new currencies.
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CWISH Humanitarian Response to Children in Post-earthquake
In response to the post earthquake scenario, CWISH also supported children in 5 quake affected districts; Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Dhading and Kavre to provide access
to protective and safe environment for children which will allow for efficient learning and trauma healing after the earthquake.
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights of Women in Nepal (SRHR)Ramesh Bhandari
The real change will not happen if we don’t change the way society thinks about women's body, work and sexuality. Therefore, there is a need to speak clearly about sexual rights as the issue has been silenced even in “progressive and politically correct spaces.”
SRHR can be a strategic tool of challenging social norms that discriminate individuals who ascribe to different sexual behavior and practices than that of the predominant one. As mentioned earlier, it can create a platform where alliances can be made with various groups that have been vulnerable to abuse because of their identities. The future focus on SRHR should be able to create spaces for conversations to impact broader structures of power.The purpose of this brief is to highlight the status of sexual and reproductive health rights of women in Nepal, discuss the gaps and challenges in the policies to address the ground realities of women with sexual and reproductive needs and to ensure their rights. As the brief includes the ‘voices’ of grassroot women and stakeholders, it is expected to demand accountability and changes in direction where it is urgently needed and suggest changes or strengthening as necessary at different levels, including the upcoming International Conference on Population and Development. (ICPD)+20.
Scenario at the State Level
Nepal has shown commitment to international human right instruments by ratifying major conventions. Endorsing ICPD was a groundbreaking process at the State level ensuring women’s de jure sexual, reproductive and health rights which got immersed in the dominant development and human right discourse. It is this aspect which needs strategic check by women’s organization to make it de facto. With the Interim Constitution of Nepal (2007) asserting “Every woman shall have the right to reproductive health and other reproductive matters” 20 (2), the government again showed commitment to ensure sexual and reproductive health rights.
What is Sexual and Reproductive Health Right (SRHR)?
SRHR incorporates the rights of all people, regardless of age, gender and other characteristics, to make choices regarding their own sexuality and reproduction, provided that their rights do not infringe on the rights of others. Thus, it promotes reproductive decision-making; freedom from forced abortion; access to information and appropriate reproductive education; freedom from harmful traditional practices and gender based violence and freedom to express one’s sexuality. Since sexual rights entered mainstream human rights discourse in the early 1990s, it has tried to broaden the understanding of traditional human rights covenants to include sexuality-related issues; conceptualize sexual and reproductive health and rights; and articulate sexual autonomy and the right to pleasure. “Autonomy is intimately and intrinsically connected with many fundamental human rights, such as liberty, dignity, privacy, security of the person, and bodily integrity.”
Ini adalah materi yang berhubungan dengan astronomi sebagai salah satu materi olimpiade Kebumian....
Pada langit malam yang cerah (dan tidak mendung), cobalah lihat ke langit. Maka anda akan
melihat bintang-bintang di langit yang jumlahnya tergantung pada kualitas langit tempat kita berada.
Bintang terlihat berkelip-kelip di langit. Terkadang kita melihat titik terang yang tidak berkelip-kelip.
Itulah planet. Selain benda-benda langit yang telah disebutkan di atas. Ternyata masih banyak lagi
jenis benda-benda lain yang mengisi alam semesta ini. Kita coba keluar dari “rumah” kita, planet
Bumi dan mengenal benda-benda yang tersebar di alam semesta. Mari kita telusuri satu persatu.
Transformation of traditional village into eco-villageRamesh Bhandari
We have defined eco-village as a rural human settlement with all members committed to sustainably manage locally available natural resources with integrated comprehensive human right based approach to meet their social, spiritual, psychological, physical (including technological) and economic needs without any negative impact on natural ecosystems, resources, climate and health. Ecovillage thus addresses the social, spiritual or cultural, ecological and techno-economic discrepancies and instabilities through sustainable community based structures, practices and concepts from holistic right based perspectives.
Ecovillage has social, physical, spiritual or cultural and ecological (including techno-economic) structures or systems. Each system has subsystems that interact with each other.
http://worecnepal.org
CWISH from the day of its establishment has been rigorously working for ensuring the rights of children and this year too we could bring change in the lives of vulnerable children. This was possible by adopting various strategies and working directly with children, school, and communities to advocating on promoting children's rights in community, district and National level.
CWISH conceptualized campaigns like Green Flag Movement against child labor and Youth in Black Cap against Child Sexual Abuse which has been success to create a momentum in reducing violence against children.
Nepal is in the process of drafting new constitution. In this context, CWISH engaged with members of constitutional assembly, parliament and the civil society to ensure children's right in the constitution. Further, CWISH instigated to review 25 years of Convention on the rights of Child (CRC) in Nepal which is in the process to document achievements, learning, challenges and providing recommendations.
An overview and summary on the research done for the Break the Silence: End Child Abuse Campaign. by Rhoda Reddock, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.
The Child Protection Policy and Procedures aimed to enhance CWISH quality of work with children through building and enabling environment for children to participate with the help of policy and procedure to safeguard children in contact with CWISH from any forms of harms and potential risk.
Global progress and delay in ending violence against childrenThomas Müller
The International NGO Council on Violence against Children was established in 2006 to work with NGOs and other partners, including member states, to ensure that the recommendations from the UN Study on Violence against Children are effectively implemented. Now, as the Sustainable Development Goals adopt the call to end all violence against children and the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Children take up the mantle of pursuing this goal, the NGO Council publishes its fourth and final report.
The report concludes that for many children around the world violence is an ever present fact of life. Where progress has been made, it remains tainted by its limitations. The contributions from key global experts on violence against children point to some hard truths about our failings, but also to the way ahead.
Minister Clifton De Coteau speaks on the occasion of the Launch of the Break ...G4TP
The Honourable Clifton De Coteau, Minister of Gender, Youth and Child Development speaks at the launch of the Break the Silence Campaign, on ending Child Sex Abuse
Ending violence against girls and women cristinagss
Domestic violence, sexual violence against women and human trafficking are the three most pervasive problems women rights activists from the Good Shepherd Sisters Congregation encounter in the 72 nations in which they operate. To better understand how women fall prey to this cycle of violence and abuse the New York-based NGO, Good Shepherd International Justice Peace Office (GSIJP) undertook a globe-spanning survey to determine who’s most at risk and how this pattern can be broken. Here are the results.
Hidden in Plain Sight: A statistical analysis of violence against childrenUNICEF Publications
Interpersonal violence – in all its forms – has a grave effect on children: Violence undermines children’s future potential; damages their physical, psychological and emotional well-being; and in many cases, ends their lives. The report sheds light on the prevalence of different forms of violence against children, with global figures and data from 190 countries. Where relevant, data are disaggregated by age and sex, to provide insights into risk and protective factors.
Note: National police statistics for some countries record lower homicide levels than the statistical estimates shown here (which are derived from World Health Organization analyses for the Global Burden of Disease 2010 Study). The Government of Rwanda has advised that they consider the statistical estimates in this table to be too high (official letter). WHO is currently undertaking new analyses for overall homicide death rates for Member States, which will incorporate substantially greater use of national police statistics, and expects to release these at the end of 2014. UNICEF will then update its estimates of homicides of children and adolescents accordingly.
Media coverage of violence against children in JamaicaTaitu Heron
This paper looks at how the Jamaican print media (the Observer, the Gleaner and the Star) depicts children who suffer from sexual abuse. It aims also to respond to the following question - How is the newspapers’ understanding of children and sexual violence against children informed by a current prevailing gender order, discourses on sexuality, and cultural attitudes and practices towards children?
CWISH (Children and Women in Social Service and Human Rights) is a non partisan, secular and not for profit nongovernment human rights organization established in 2nd December 1993 with the aim of protection and promotion of human rights. It has mandate to work all over Nepal on Advocating for human rights, Peace and justice; Empowering target groups and Enabling stakeholders. CWISH believes and promote democratic practices, good governance, accountability and innovation in working approaches.
CWISH is women led organization founded and led by Nepalese women together with proportionate involvement of men to reduce gender gap in socio economic development and human rights.
Child Sexual Exploitation of Children, CSEC Advocacy ProjectAlexandra Rupp
We define sexual exploitation as rape, abuse, and violence against children, in which 1.6 million youth did NOT “choose “ to be a victim. Alameda County has the 2nd largest population of Commercially Sexually Exploited Children and youth where every two minutes a child is being groomed for sexual exploitation (PCWTA). These numbers represent the amount of CSEC victims we serve, typically without knowing. The traumatic and adverse experiences commonly occurring in our communities, put our children at higher risk for being coerced, manipulated, and forced into sexual exploitation and human trafficking. A trafficker knows what to look for—and so should we. To protect our children, we must increase our awareness and understanding of CSEC in order to effectively prevent, respond, and restore. CSEC is on the rise and while it’s happening all around us, most of us don’t see it. Help us make child sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation visible, so we can end it. Because every child is too valuable to be bought and sold!
As a part of the project on preventing child marriage through strengthening systems since 2012 in partnership with Jabala in West Bengal and MV Foundation, Telengana , HAQ had organized a national consultation “Come Together’ on the 12th and 13th of August 2014, to share experience, strategies, challenges and learning’s of 62 participants from 13 different states
HAQ: Center for Child Rights
B1/2, Ground Floor,
Malviya Nagar
New Delhi - 110017
Tel: +91-26677412,26673599
Fax: +91-26674688
Website: www.haqcrc.org
FaceBook Page: https://www.facebook.com/HaqCentreForChildRights
SWASTH Approach - Addressing Violence against Women and Girls in BiharTej Prakash Yadav
As part of its Sector Wide Approach to Strengthening Health Programme (SWASTH) programme supported by the Department for International Development (DFID, UK) and the Bihar Technical Assistance Support Team (BTAST), GoB through WDC has been working since 2011 to strengthen the state response to VAWG. This response has been informed by global evidence and leading organisations working on VAWG issues.
Recent nationwide increase
in cases of rape has been a
serious concern. The data
from WOREC Nepal during
the last three months (Baisakh
to Ashar 2070) reports, 149
cases of rape and 14 cases of
attempted rape on women1.
Most of the survivors are
dalit, poor, single women or
young girls.
The people’s movement
of 62/63 aimed for justice,
equality and self-dignity of
every Nepali. However, the
lack of effective laws and
impunity clearly show the
bitter truth that our country is not heading
toward that direction. Lack of access to
justice-socially and legally to the survivors
has compounded the situation.
आर्थिक–सामाजिक अधिकारप्रति प्रतिवद्धताः न्यायमा महिलाको पहु“चको सुनिश्चितता विषयक नवौं राष्ट्रिय परामर्श गोष्ठी
मेरो शरीर ः मेरो अधिकार कार्यशाला
द्रुत न्याय प्रणाली र न्यायमा महिलाको पहुँच
संक्रमणकालीन न्यायः महिलाको दृष्टिकोणबाट
गर्भपतनसम्बन्धी बढ्दो निन्दा ः महिलाको स्वास्थ्य र हितका लागि चुनौती]
सामाजिक लेखा परीक्षण
चौथो महिला सामाजिक मञ्च
दहेज तथा महिला हिंसा न्युनीकरणका लागि हाम्रो भूमिका
वैदेशिक रोजगारलाई सुरक्षित बनाउन सरोकारवालाहरूको भूमिका
Many ways to support street children.pptxSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
A process server is a authorized person for delivering legal documents, such as summons, complaints, subpoenas, and other court papers, to peoples involved in legal proceedings.
What is the point of small housing associations.pptxPaul Smith
Given the small scale of housing associations and their relative high cost per home what is the point of them and how do we justify their continued existance
Understanding the Challenges of Street ChildrenSERUDS INDIA
By raising awareness, providing support, advocating for change, and offering assistance to children in need, individuals can play a crucial role in improving the lives of street children and helping them realize their full potential
Donate Us
https://serudsindia.org/how-individuals-can-support-street-children-in-india/
#donatefororphan, #donateforhomelesschildren, #childeducation, #ngochildeducation, #donateforeducation, #donationforchildeducation, #sponsorforpoorchild, #sponsororphanage #sponsororphanchild, #donation, #education, #charity, #educationforchild, #seruds, #kurnool, #joyhome
Russian anarchist and anti-war movement in the third year of full-scale warAntti Rautiainen
Anarchist group ANA Regensburg hosted my online-presentation on 16th of May 2024, in which I discussed tactics of anti-war activism in Russia, and reasons why the anti-war movement has not been able to make an impact to change the course of events yet. Cases of anarchists repressed for anti-war activities are presented, as well as strategies of support for political prisoners, and modest successes in supporting their struggles.
Thumbnail picture is by MediaZona, you may read their report on anti-war arson attacks in Russia here: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/10/13/burn-map
Links:
Autonomous Action
http://Avtonom.org
Anarchist Black Cross Moscow
http://Avtonom.org/abc
Solidarity Zone
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Youth In Black Cap : A movement against Child Sexual abuse in Nepal
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Children have been defined by the state as zone of peace. Cultural and
religious belief of different cast and cultural groups of Nepal also has
strengthened the idea taking them in the form of god and has given utmost
priority for their protection. However with the social, cultural, political
and economic transitioning, many of the values are being deconstructed
and some of the deviances into the cultural values. Nevertheless, there are
several other factors interplaying to cause abuse, exploitation and violence
against children.
Though Child Sexual abuse is a heinous crime, it is still prevalent in our
communities. Statistics reports horrible scenario of abuse and exploitation,
both globally and locally. In 2003, a report by Save the Children revealed
45 percent of children were sexually abused in Kathmandu valley. Another
report by Unicef, 2005 discovered 33 % of children being sexually abused
outside the valley in Kaski, Morang, Surkhet and Chitwan. Majority of
children in domestic labour sector (56.8%) were found to be sexually
abused (CWISH, 2006). There is a gap in updated holistic statistics
regarding sexual abuse against children. However with the increasing
reports of child sexual abuse in the media, one can guess that children are
being more vulnerable with the transitional situation of the state.
Analyzing the reported cases against child sexual abuse in Nepal Police
in 2012/13, 49.64 percent of the total (701) cases filed were associated
with child sexual abuse. During April-May, 2014 news of sexual abuse
against children under age of three years were reported in Kavre, Bara,
Rukum and Banke districts. This incidence of increasing rate of reported
case in the news paper and news media strongly supports the fact of
increase in incidences of abuse against children. However there has also
been the increasing trend of reporting of the cases against child sexual
abuse. Analysis of the reported cases revealed the existence of abuse in
communities, schools. Incidence of child sexual even in the home has
raised a serious concern regarding protection of children form sexual
abuse.
Youth in Black Cap Movement
(Youth Movement for Raising Awareness, Implementation
and Amendment of Policy Provisions against
Child Sexual Abuse in Nepal)
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Social Cause of Child Sexual Abuse
Although child sexual abuse is prevalent in our society, many of the
parents and children are unaware that it is happening against them. We
do not have specific mechanism to aware and enable children, parents,
teachers or the community members about protecting children against
these abuses. Moreover, children are seldom encouraged to speak about
sex. This has resulted into hiding of the cases although they have been
victimized of it. For example, 13 year old girl in Rukum, raped by a
man of the same locality was disclosed only after she was four months
pregnant. Sometimes, our society tends to hide the case relating it to their
social prestige. A girl shared the terrible story of being raped by her own
grandfather and father in Kabhre to her mother and maternal uncle. But
they relate the crime with their social dignity and warned the girl not to
disclose outside leading into the girl attempting suicide. These incidences
reflect social context and consequences of child sexual abuse in Nepal.
However these are just few of the representative cases and there might
be thousands of such children living under the situation of abuse and
exploitation.
Child Sex Abuse Legal Provisions and Access to Justice
In spite of the high prevalence of child sexual abuse into our communities,
Nepal has not yet defined any of the mechanism to empower children for
self defense and self protection into any of its academic or any other
curricula.
There is inadequate legal provision for providing legal justice to the
victim of sexual abuse. Though article 14 of Civil Code has provisioned
against rape and or sexual abuse it does not mention any provision for
rehabilitation of the victim back into the community. Furthermore article
11 has constrained the filing of complaint within 35 days of the incidence.
Taking into consideration social and cultural context of defining sex, this
provision is leaving many of the cases going unreported. In 2013, among
60 cases of child sexual abuse received and facilitated by CWISH for
registration, efforts for 25 cases went unsuccessful due to 35 days of limit
for registration. We still have a challenge of witness protection. This has
rendered many of the cases loosely decided or delayed for the decision
denying partly or completely justice to the victim. The civil code is a
general legal provision, which does not very specifically speak about child
sexual abuse. When cases involving children needs separate child friendly
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legal procedure for adjudication; provision of common and general law
can be regarded as absence of law showing immediate separate legal
provision for cases involving child sexual abuse.
Need of Movement against Child Sexual Abuse
Prevalence of incidences of child sexual abuse and lack of proper legal,
institutional and social mechanisms to adequately respond the cases of
child sexual abuse demands a clear need of strong movement that attracts
and involves youths to aware the community against child sexual abuse
and at the same time pressurize the government for the formulation of
necessary legal and institutional mechanism to properly respond against
the child sexual abuse. Although clinical evidence is regarded as one of the
strong evidence for providing justice to the victim, we do not yet have a
uniform forensic procedure and reporting format for carrying out clinical
procedure against the case. Furthermore, whatever practices though in
adhoc basis we have never encouraged the practitioners to investigate the
possibility of sexually transmitted diseases in victim completely ignoring
her right to health.
Nepal Police is the agency for taking the cases up to court. However
personnel in Nepal Police are not sufficiently trained in child protecting
issues rendering the children of possibility of being further victimization
during the investigation or legal procedure. All these proves the need
to a strong campaign to aware the community and to pressurize the
government to holistically respond to nullification of incidences of child
sexual abuse and to properly responding to the right to legal and social
justice of the victim.
With the objective of community awareness and creating cumulative
pressure against the government in responding to the prevalence of
incidencesof childsexualabuse,YOUTHINBLACKCAPMOVEMENT
is launched has been imagined and launched.
What is Youth in Black Cap Movement
YOUTH IN BLACK CAP is a movement against increasing incidences
of child sexual abuse It is a peaceful movement to inform and aware
communities about the increasing incidences of child sexual abuse and
pressurize policy level higher officials/authorities, parliamentarians and
law makers for the formulation and implementation of create child
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protective and friendly laws policies and programs. This is a youth led
social movement where the youngsters put on black cap, hold a candle,
different handbills and posters related to child sex abuse and stand
in the main junctions of the city without hindering the traffic. This
movement will be organized every Friday morning from 9-10. Before the
organization of the movement, youths will be oriented about the concept
of the movement and motivate them to be the part of the campaign.
To make the movement throughout the country, local NGOs operating
in the district level and youth will be mobilized. CWISH and Dynamic
Youth Forum who envisioned the movement will coordinate with
different organizations and make a coordination committee to launch
the movement from central level. The secretariat of the committee will
be in CWISH office, Buddhanagar. The organizations involved in the
movement will have active participation. Interested individuals without
institutional affiliation can also make voluntary contribution and take part
actively in the movement. Coordination committee will provide technical
support in need. The movement will be launched in 19 November which
is also celebrated as world’s day against child abuse. On this occasion letter
of demand will also be submitted to the prime minister.
Coordination committee of the movement:
Coordinator: CWISH, Nepal
Sub-Coordinator: Dynamic Youth Forum (DYF)
Members of the main coordination committee: Nepal School of
Social Work, Child Development Society, Child Nepal, Voice of Children,
Shakti Samuha, Bishwas Nepal, The Nepal, Nepal F.M., Students Concern
Nepal
General members of the campaign: Aama Milan Kendra, Access, Achel,
Aawaj Nepal, Beyond Beijing Committee, CAPCRON, Consortium,
CHANGE Nepal, FHRD Bhaktapur, FoWEP, Good Weave Foundation,
Homenet Nepal, Jaya Multiple Campus, Khwopa College, Lincoln College,
Looniva, National Child Protection Alliance, Nesfield College, Reliance
International Academy, RPYC, RUWON Nepal, RUKS Group, Shakti
Milan Samaj, Shakti Samuha, St. Xavier’s College, Saath Saath, Sachetana
(NTV Plus), Shaili Natya Samuha, Theatre Centre For Children, Theatre
Mall, THE-Nepal, SWAN, Triton International College, UEMS, YES-
Nepal, Yuwalaya