BLOGS

Court Log: July – September 2017

Court Log is a quarterly chronological listing that tracks notable court cases and judgements pertaining to POCSO and other related laws addressing sexual assault and harassment.

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The Catalog: Making Schools Safe Again

School Daze. Soon, we will be able to accurately calculate the cost of humanity. By plotting individual empathy and public outrage against the number of lives lost, a score needed for generating critical humanity in any given scenario can be arrived at. For the Railway Authorities to wake up and take notice that the Mumbai...

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POCSO Crime Log: July 2017

The POCSO Crime Log is a monthly chronological listing that tracks POCSO Cases reported in reliable media sources. 124 cases came to our notice in the month of July 2017.

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[19 September] Circuit: Facts ‘Exclusively’ for you

Challenge everything you read & see on the Internet. Like-minded people, speaking and listening to one another, are re-inforcing their beliefs and prejudices and are becoming more extreme versions of themselves before they had started talking. In Edition 8 of ‘Circuit’, our monthly newsletter on children, safety & internet, we look at the modern day...

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Filter Bubble – A Built-In Bias in your Social Media Feed and Searches

Picture this – You enter a room where everyone is exactly like you. Like objects manufactured using 3D printers on a production line with sigma six precision. Everyone has similar likes, dislikes, opinions, and taste. Everyone uses the same language, gets outraged on familiar issues and laugh at the same jokes. That doesn’t sound fun,...

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The Catalog: Boys Must Also Be Protected From Abuse

A Myth is Not A Monolith As part of its awareness campaigns, the movement against child sexual abuse has frequently & successfully resorted to the myth vs reality dialectic. One of the more prominent fixtures goes something like this: Myth: Victims of Child Sexual Abuse are almost always girls. Reality: Boys can also be victims...

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