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Special focus on:
Child sexual abuse and sexual commercial exploitation
Child sexual abuse
Sexual abuse is any kind of unwanted or forced sexual behavior. It includes rape, sodomy, harassment and eve teasing. Sexual violence against children is most commonly perpetrated by someone known to the child, but assaults by strangers in the community happen as well.
FACTS AND FIGURES
- An estimated 150 million girls and 73 million boys under 18 experienced forced sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual violence during 2002.
- India has the world’s largest number of sexually abused children, with a child below 16 years raped every 155th minute, a child below 10 every 13th hour and one in every 10 children sexually abused at any point of time. |
Major findings on sexual abuse in India (from the Study. Child Abuse. India. 2007):
- 53.22% children reported having faced one of more forms of sexual abuse.
- 21.90% child respondents facing severe forms of sexual abuse and 50.76% other forms of sexual abuse.
- 50% abuses are persons known to the child or in a position of trust and responsibility.
- Children on street, children at work and children in institutional care reported the highest incidence of sexual assault.
- Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar and Delhi reported the highest percentage of sexual abuse among both boys and girls.
- Most Children did not report the matter to anyone.
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