DOC-20240119-WA0014.Add more information to your upload

zgre

1. Good touch, Bad touch Life Issue

2. Empower the child to protect themselves and raise alarm in case anyone attempts to touch them inappropriately. Aim:-

3. OBJECTIVES:- Teaching children about good or safe touch and bad or unsafe touch also helps to prevent child sexual abuse. Studies have shown that children who are about these concepts are more likely to able to recognise, resist and disclose abuse to a trusted adult if it occurs.

4. Ever happen ed before? Crimes against children increases by 16.2%, child sexual abuse cases go up – by THE NEWS MINUTE This includes child sexual abuse, abduction, murder, child marriage among other crimes. The total crime rate went up from 28.9% in 2020 to 33.6% in 2021. (The crime rate is the number of incidences of crime registered per lakh population.) Telangana (5,667), Kerala (4,536) and Andhra Pradesh (2,669)-child cases recorded 2022 ”Under POCSO, which refers to a ‘child’ as any person under the age of 18 years, a total of 53,874 incidents were reported in the country in 2021, compared to 47,221 in 2020.

5. SHORT CASE STUDIES 1. The Andhra Pradesh police on Wednesday arrested two primary school teachers for allegedly molesting two students inside the premises of institution in Vishakhapatnam Pedi Palem village. 2. The government primary school headmaster at sexually abuse, a class fourth girl at the washroom of the school in Prakasam district. The girl who managed to escape accused informed her parents. 3. Police have arrested a watchman of a private school for allegedly repeatedly sexually assaulting a minor girl. This incident took place in Visakhapatnam.

6. HOW?

7. 1. Interacting with the students first to make them comfortable with us . 2. Explaining gen der neutrality to make them feel secure in front of opposite gender. 3. With help of a chart or if possible presentation ( if the school is having facilities). 4. Offering some presents like pencils ( only stationary thing) strictly no food(only limited schools) 5. And testing them whether they understood in a right way or not .

8. Process: 1. Interacting 2. Explaining 3. Testing 4. Remedies . In this way good touch and bad touch is taught.

9. Areas that are to covered: 1. At first focusing on labour intensive areas. 2. Slowly moving to private schools . 3. Not only confining to a city rather spreading awareness among students through friend circle and making sure to attain larger benefit to the children.

10. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Violence against children in many forms is widespread in India, and the effects may extend well into adulthood. This paper has been commissioned as part of the UNICEF Multi-Country Study on the Drivers of Violence Affecting Children in Italy, Peru, Viet Nam and Zimbabwe. The Multi-Country Study analyses how individual, family, community, institutional and structural level factors interact and contribute to violence in children’s homes and communities, and aims to develop better national strategies for the prevention of violence against children. This paper is based on results from Young Lives, a longitudinal study of12,000 children in four developing countries: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Viet Nam. Drawing on qualitative data gathered from children and young people in rural communities in Andhra Pradesh, India, over a period of seven years, the paper provides an account of children’s and young people’s experiences of violence at home, at school, and in communities.

11. Physical and emotional violence towards children in India appears to be so widespread that it is often difficult to trace the direct effects of poverty; the findings suggest that a range of factors appear to play a role, especially age and gender norms. Using a case study approach, the paper explores children’s and young people’s perceptions and fears of violence at home, in school, and in communities, and whether children’s experiences of violence have implications for their life trajectories, for example, relating to decisions to stay on at school, or move away from home or leave an employer because of maltreatment. Based on children’s accounts of violence, we conclude that it is important to take a holistic, gender-sensitive life-course approach to understanding violence towards children, and that tackling historically-entrenched norms and patterns of behaviour is a vital way forward, via a combination of top down (social policies and laws) and bottom-up approaches (working with children, families, teachers, and communities).

12. The Above summary is from the book understanding children’s experiences of violence in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana India. Evidence from young lives by Virginia Morrow and Renu Singh this book was published by UNICEF.