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Quote: Under Section 67B of the Information Technology Act, 2000, not only uploading or transmitting child pornography is prohibited but browsing (viewing) the same is also a punishable offence. If anyone is found to be in possession of any material that amounts to child pornography, that person can be prosecuted under Section 15 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012

Advice - Rights and Laws

Sep '19

Legal facts on transmitting, viewing and reporting online child pornography

By Kaushik Gupta

Kaushik Gupta explains the law on online child pornography Reader queries Is it a crime to watch pornography on the Internet in India? What if it involves only adults? If...

The photograph shows a series of posters developed by students of Vidyasagar School of Social Work, Kolkata as part of a child sexual abuse awareness generation workshop organized by RAHI Foundation in 2015. There are three posters pasted on a wall next to each other with messages related to child sexual abuse in English and Bengali. One of them says, “Stop child sexual abuse” with imprints of human hands all around the text – both text and imprints are in red colour. Another poster adjacent to the first shows a large and beautifully drawn illustration of the face of a girl child with her eyes closed and a hand placed on her mouth to stop her from speaking. The text below the illustration, when translated from Bengali into English, implies that the elders say children should keep quiet about sexual abuse, or else the ‘abusers’ will scold them. The third poster shows the illustration of a small girl child with her hands spread out, and the hand of a grown up, much larger in size than the child, next to her. The entire illustration is enclosed inside a square box. The text above and below the box says in capital letters “Stop child sexual abuse”. This poster too has imprints of the human hand in red colour spread around the box. The names of RAHI Foundation and Vidyasagar School of Social Work are mentioned on the edges of the posters. Photo courtesy: RAHI Foundation

QA - Child Sexual Abuse

Feb '19

When the law protects but justice heals

By RAHI Foundation

A purely legal response to incest and child sexual abuse can be inadequate says RAHI Foundation Reader queries Is there any law in India to deal with incest and...

Quote: On the question of recovery – yes, it’s absolutely possible to recover from the effect of incest and child sexual abuse. The effects of abuse can be damaging but they don’t have to be permanent. Recovery begins with the survivor acknowledging that they were abused, that their life is affected by what happened, and deciding to do something about it.

QA - Child Sexual Abuse

Dec '18

On recovering from effects of incest and child sexual abuse

By RAHI Foundation

RAHI Foundation continues to answer your queries on incest and child sexual abuse Reader queries What can be the long term effects of incest and child sexual abuse? Is...

QA - Child Sexual Abuse

Oct '18

Opening up to facts about incest and child sexual abuse

By RAHI Foundation

RAHI Foundation on prevention, age and sexuality nuances of incest / child sexual abuse Reader queries What can one do to prevent child sexual abuse? Worried parent, Delhi ...

QA - Child Sexual Abuse

Aug '18

Why children don’t talk about their experience of sexual abuse

By RAHI Foundation

RAHI Foundation is back with more issues to discuss around incest and child sexual abuse Reader queries In my experience as a social worker, most children don’t reveal their experience...

This main photograph shows pictures of B. Kumar and Rudra Kishore Mandal, the two interviewees for this article, from their earlier, youthful days. They are both all smiles in their respective photographs. B. Kumar’s photograph is accompanied with a dialogue cloud that says: “I used to keep boys away because they wanted to reach the girls through me, and I don’t want to play a second fiddle, but I would like to be a first fiddle!” Similarly, a dialogue cloud along with Rudra Kishore Mandal’s photograph says: “I used to scribble on the walls, I used to draw, and that was one of my biggest escapes from the reality around me, and I don’t know why I needed to escape but there was always this feeling that I’m not fitting in somewhere.” Photo credits: Rudra Kishore Mandal’s personal collection

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Qatha

Jun '18

Qatha: On the uses of ‘sil-batta’ to make you straight & more queer tales (part 1)

By Pawan Dhall, Soma Roy Karmakar

Varta brings you the next series of articles under the ‘Queer Kolkata Oral History Project’ This is an initiative to document five decades...

QA - Child Sexual Abuse

Jun '18

Talking about incest and child sexual abuse

By RAHI Foundation

In a new bi-monthly column RAHI Foundation discusses a range of issues around child sexual abuse Reader queries What does child sexual abuse mean? Does it mean only physical...

In this photograph, a midday event is taking place on the pavement outside Kamala Girls’ High School in South Kolkata on March 19, 2018 to protest the incidents in the school and the West Bengal Education Minister’s comments on the matter. A street play is in progress. The main actor dressed in a ‘kurta’, pair of jeans, slippers and a ‘dupatta’ can be seen holding a tambourine in their hands and addressing the audience. About a dozen people, standing around at some distance from the actor, are watching. To the right of the photograph, facing the actor, are two individuals holding a placard in part Bengali, part English: “Samakami aami, bhalobasha aami. Shame Education Minister!” (So what if I’m homosexual, my love has meaning. Shame Education Minister!). Behind the placard holders is the school building and a part of the closed school gate can also be seen. The name of the school is written on an arched board above the gate. In the forefront, the photograph shows someone holding a mobile phone and recording a video of the play. Large trees, school buses, people sitting on platforms under the trees, and a building adjacent to the school make up the background. Photo credit: Pawan Dhall

Insight

May '18

To school, with fear . . . of confessions!

By Jia Mata, Sudha Jha, Nikita Kabra

Jia Mata, Nikita Kabra and Sudha Jha report on the recent homophobic violation of child rights in the Kamala Girls' High School incident involving the school's headmistress and the West...

The photograph shows a scene from the ‘MyNameKeepsChanging – No More Rape, Murder and Violence’ event organized by the women’s rights collective Maitree at Hazra Park in South Kolkata on April 18, 2018. The occasion was to protest the incidents of rape in Kathua in Jammu & Kashmir, Kushmandi in West Bengal and Unnao in Uttar Pradesh, and the thoroughly inept and biased government response to these incidents. The photograph shows a section of the crowd gathered at the event to hold a candlelight silent protest. About 20 people can be seen standing facing the thoroughfare next to Hazra Park so as to catch the attention of the people walking by or sitting in the vehicles passing by. The right side profiles of the protestors are visible in the photograph. The only exception is a young smiling man who has turned to look back and talk to someone behind him in the crowd. His smiling face stands out in the sea of heads of the protestors. In the background can be seen traffic lights, shops with signboards, a few trees and a number of people on the pavement across the road. Photo credit: Pawan Dhall

Vartanama

Apr '18

When will the tide turn?

By Pawan Dhall

Both photographs in this article were clicked during an event organized on April 18, 2018 by Maitree, a pioneering women’s rights network in West Bengal The event was called ‘MyNameKeepsChanging –...

This visual shows a portion of the poster designed for Kolkata screenings of the film ‘The Little Girls We Were . . . And the Women We Are’. The poster text says: “RAHI Foundation presents ‘The Little Girls We Were . . . And the Women We Are’ – Five Indian women survivors of incest and child sexual abuse share their journey from abuse to recovery. A poignant blend of personal testimonies, information and expert comments, this film gives the message of hope and recovery to survivors.” The text is accompanied with two visuals from the film. One of them shows a woman writing something in a diary – the camera is behind her and we can see the back of her head, neck and shoulders. There is a tattoo with stars and some text painted on the back of her neck. The second visual shows a hand holding a piece of paper burning – there is writing on the paper, not fully visible but possibly talking about the sense of shame that victims of incest or child sexual abuse often feel. Poster visual courtesy RAHI Foundation

Vartanama

Mar '18

Little women versus patriarchy – and the winner is . . .

By Pawan Dhall

Morning newspapers are all about marvelling with horror at the survival challenges we as a deeply unequal society throw at our girls and women. And then I marvel some more...

Tagged Under: Child Rights

Legal facts on transmitting, viewing and reporting online child pornography

When the law protects but justice heals

On recovering from effects of incest and child sexual abuse

Opening up to facts about incest and child sexual abuse

Why children don’t talk about their experience of sexual abuse

Qatha: On the uses of ‘sil-batta’ to make you straight & more queer tales (part 1)

Talking about incest and child sexual abuse

To school, with fear . . . of confessions!

When will the tide turn?

Little women versus patriarchy – and the winner is . . .

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