Highlights Of #Justice4EveryChild Telethon: An Initiative To Stop Child Sexual Abuse

We leave you with some of the highlights from the #Justice4EveryChild telethon
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'We Have To Fight To Win,' Says Kailash Satyarthi On Fighting Child Abuse


As the 5-hour #Justice4EveryChild drew to a close, Kailash Satyarthi, Nobel Peace Laureate talked about the various challenges he has faced in this 40-year journey fighting for the rights of children and how the work will continue. He says, "It is very challenging but that's why we are here. A lot of work is needed of course and we have learned a lot of lessons since I have been working. The use of children is an age-old problem that requires many ways to tackle; one is rule of law, one is social protection, education at large and also the challenges related to the new technologies. These are the issues that we need to take up and I'm confident that we will win in this challenge. It doesn't only mean punishment to the perpetrators."

Sarod Maestros Amaan And Ayaan Ali Bangash have joined hands with the Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation and Justice For Every Child telethon. At a special 5-hour telethon, the duo paid a tribute to Rabrindranath Tagore with their performance of 'Ekla Chalo Re’

Do away with taboo around sex and promote sex education: Actor Kalki Koechlin at #Justice4EveryChild telethon

Child abuse is such a taboo topic that it is not discussed even with one's own mother: Actor Taapsee Pannu

Child Survivors from Bal Ashram Trust near Jaipur recall how their lives were transformed at the Ashram and how some of them have now gotten involved in rescuing children and spreading awareness about child rights issues

Asmita Satyarthi, Trustee, Bal Ashram Trust explains the role of Bal Ashram Trust


Bal Ashram was formed in the 90s for the need for a rehabilitation center for children who have been rescued from sexual abuse since they needed a place to get over the trauma and they need to be aware of the rights that they have. There are two important grams where the most important focus is democratic participation of those who have suffered.

Ravi Kant, Country Head, Access To Justice talks about KSCF's initiative Access To Justice

The families are generally scared of coming to the police, says Sangeeta Beniwal, Chairperson, Rajasthan State Commission for Protection of Child Rights

We need to come out of denial when it comes to child abuse: Sutapa Sanyal, Former Director General of Police, Uttar Pradesh

During the #Justice4EveryChild telethon, Sundar Krishnan, Director, Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation explains how can adults better monitor what the child is doing


We look at the child sexual abuse material issue from a completely different standpoint. We want to provide comprehensive suit of solutions when we look at this entire issue. We divide this into awareness and deterrence; detection and reporting; response and support. When we look at the prevention and deterrence part, we would like to provide tech solutions in the form of digital literacy, age detection tools and making sure that automatic filters are there. Similarly, at the awareness level, we have to disseminate information related to various trends that are emerging whether it could be in the form of sextortion, grooming which has become now quite a kind of a trend. Video streaming content and self-generated content, youngsters feel it's okay to share nude pictures online. We are seeing these trends in India as well. We must constantly monitor that.

The pandemic has led to an increase in cybercrimes, says Madhukar Pandey, Additional Director-General, Maharashtra Police at the #Justice4EveryChild telethon


We have Operation Blackface launched in 2020. It was a two-hour surprise that we have all these tools. In a period of 18-19 months, 11,000 reports were generated and 200 cases were registered. We have found to our surprise that this issue of child pornography is very serious and that there's a perception that this happens abroad and in Germany, but we have found that this does happen in the country, The pandemic has led to an increase in cybercrimes, the way people have been interacting even with families, the exploitation has been happening in the family itself. In some cases, we have been following some forensic tools called 'Peda', hunt for pedophiles, and child pornography and this is such a case where the victim doesn't report the crime, so we go for darknet monitoring and do old fashioned intelligence - we look for signals, sometimes we are successful. We had a case recently with help from Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation, we found a person selling pornographic material.

Manoj Abraham, Nodal Officer, Kerala Police Cyberdome talks about Grapnel, a specialised tool developed to deal with online Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM)


Grapnel is basically a tool that we developed with the assistance of ICPF, through hackathon, basically where we called all those people who work in this hackathon to develop this tool because the darknet is one area that we found that a lot of CSAM material, that is Child Sexual exploitative material was being sold there, bought there and transmitted. So the tools that were available to the police were not enough to really break into the darknet, because of the encryptions that were there, and the inbuilt system that were there. So Grapnel is basically a tool for crawling into those systems, where it indexes whatever keyword searches that we give in that. For example, in Kerala, we are looking for Kerala children's videos. So Grapnel will go and really search the entire dark web and bring back everything which is connected to that keyword. So it is then working on that, and looking into the aspects of who is sharing it, who's transmitting those images also. So the Grapnel is basically a crawler with all these artificial intelligence, in-built into the system, which helps the investigator to really crack these crimes against children in the dark web.

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Actor Sushmita Sen salutes the 'Real Life Heroes' on the #Justice4EveryChild telethon

Even our government needs to be proactive to create a society where our children are safe, says Actor Sushmita Sen as she lends her support to the #Justice4EveryChild campaign


The problem is calling children a "cause". Kailash Ji has beautifully said, "children should be free to be children" and that's our job as grown-ups. Ensuring safety and security of each child and their childhood is our responsibility. I am very privileged to be a part of that voice and I will always support children.

We have gotten so used to hearing that children are our future and are our legacy but they are the purest creation of life, I have always believed that and we must preserve this purity so that we can nurture our strengths and innate abilities. We have such a young population in our country who don't have the same opportunity or the level of safety which is their basic right.

Real life hero Netresh Sharma, Rajasthan Police constable joins #Justice4EveryChild telethon


During Karauli riots, Netresh Sharma picked up a baby from a burning building and ran for his life. Recalling the incident, he says, "The child's mother shouted 'someone save my child' and I was wearing my uniform at the time and as per my duty, I had to save the child or anyone in the scenario but especially a child who can;t speak."

Meet Sunita, Delhi Police constable, posted in the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit (AHTU) who traces missing or kidnapped children and reunite them with their parents


I have been working towards tracing children, especially those who have been missing or have been kidnapped. I have traced around 90 children so far. I first take information from stations if any child from Delhi is missing or kidnapped. We get information about children from other states like Bihar and Madhya Pradesh from their homes.

Delhi: Children from Bal Mitra Mandal perform a skit about child abuse

Messages pour in to support #Justice4EveryChild campaign