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[19 May] The Catalog: More Questions than Answers – The Anxiety around Paedophiles

This is an anxious edition of The Catalog. At the recently concluded All Stakeholder’s Conference on Child Sexual Abuse, we had the opportunity to sit through 2 separate presentations by doctors associated with KEM Hospital, Pune on their new initiative titled ‘Program for Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Violence’ (PPPSV). It advocates an approach where...

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POCSO Crime Log: April 2017

The POCSO Crime Log is a monthly chronological listing that tracks POCSO Cases reported in reliable media sources. 58 cases came to our notice in the month of April 2017.

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An Uncomfortable Place: Louis Theroux’s ‘A Place For Paedophiles’

KEM Hospital, Pune in collaboration with Institute of Sexology and Sexual Medicine at the Charite University, Berlin is looking to initiate Program for Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Violence (PPPV), which is a first of its kind program in the country. The  program aims to work with non-offending pedophiles (individuals who are sexually attracted to minors but who...

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[12 May] Circuit: The Fight Against Online Child Sexual Abuse Material

Do The Right Thing This edition of ‘Circuit’ our monthly newsletter about Children and the Internet focuses on our hotline partner Internet Watch Foundation’s recently released Annual Report 2016. It is an illuminating run down of statistics & trends that gives much-needed perspective to the fight against online child sexual abuse material. In related news,...

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Unlikely Heroes in The Fight Against CSAM: The Internet Watch Foundation Analysts

On 20th December 2016, an anonymous report was made through http://aarambhindia.org/report – India’s 1st Internet Hotline to Report Online Child Sexual Abuse Imagery. The report was passed on to IWF for analysis and action. It was found that the content reported was of the most severe kind. It depicted baby boys and girls of mixed...

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