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• Use the readily available Child Sexual Abuse Anti-distribution Filter to block access to websites containing child sexual abuse images. Establish comprehensive reporting mechanisms • Develop comprehensive nationwide reporting mechanisms and response services for abused and exploited children through hotlines, the Internet and other means in public places, communities, schools, prisons, institutions and workplaces. Expand awareness of boys’ issues and male gender issues • Conduct awareness campaigns at all levels to raise awareness of the issues surrounding abuse and exploitation of boys and male gender relations, masculinity, power abuse and sexual violence. • Provide information and education on boys’ issues and male gender issues in schools and in curricula for professionals. Expand boys’ participation • Create opportunities for boys to participate in matters that affect them and express their concerns and views. • Build leadership skills through the development of boys clubs and forums and the integration of boys into community and NGO programme activities. Establish programmes and information for boys • Develop programmes and provide information for boys on gender, masculinity, sexual development, health, parenting and other issues to assist them to clarify their roles in society, challenge gender discrimination and address child abuse. Develop outreach to boys separated from their families • Develop drop-in services and outreach mechanisms directed at boys in street, labour and migration settings. • Establish networks using peer educators and outreach workers to identify and support vulnerable boys and boy victims of sexual abuse and exploitation. Ensure that boys have access to services • Develop boy-friendly integrated services for sexually abused and exploited boys, including training and capacity building of government and non-governmental organizations to assist boy victims. • Conduct training for health professionals, caregivers and law enforcement to reduce discrimination and hostile attitudes towards boys, particularly those in prostitution and those with alternative sexual identities. Provide psychosocial care for boys • Develop outreach activities, care facilities and follow-up services for boys, and train caregivers and health professionals in their special needs. • Develop counselling, vocational and life skills programmes tailored to boys’ needs. Strengthen family support systems • Develop programmes to intercede with families, particularly those in especially difficult circumstances, including female-headed households, disadvantaged and minority groups, and families with children with disabilities. 154
• Develop interventions to address family dysfunction, including domestic violence, abuse and alcoholism. • Assist families to build their awareness of child vulnerability, keep children in school and increase household income. Strengthen community protection • Establish community-based protection networks for boys and girls, with emphasis on building community ownership, creating vigilance on abuse and exploitation, reducing risk factors for children, and addressing social and economic inequalities. Reduce abuse in the schools • Conduct programmes in schools to create child-friendly learning environments. • Provide training to children and teachers on sexual health, sexual abuse, gender relations and related issues. • Establish codes of conduct and protection policies for schools. • Train teachers in positive discipline skills and ways to identify and respond to cases of sexual abuse. Establish boy-friendly judicial processes • Develop guidelines for investigating the sexual abuse and exploitation of boys. • Provide boy-sensitive training to police, judges and lawyers on how to work with, communicate with and support vulnerable children, particularly boys. Strengthen programme development • Provide the training, time and resources to allow adequate situation assessment, strategy development, budget formulation and programme design. • Involve children in programme design and development. Strengthen programme management and implementation • Provide training and require both donors and recipients to ensure adequate monitoring and evaluation of programmes. • Provide training and technical supervision to ensure comprehensive management of human and physical resources. • Involve children in programme monitoring and evaluation. Strengthen human resources • Establish job competencies and training standards for all persons working with abused and exploited children. • Develop comprehensive training programmes based on certifiable skills development. • Develop mechanisms for monitoring work quality and addressing the needs of staff, particularly in situations where staff are working directly with children. Mainstream quality programming • Disseminate quality practices through the exchange of skills and experiences. • Improve the identification of good practices. • Adapt viable practices to diverse cultural and social contexts to bring them up to scale. 155
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UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre In
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UNICEF INNOCENTI RESEARCH CENTRE Th
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Sexual Abuse and Exploitation of Bo
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Contents 1. INTRODUCTION...........
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INTRODUCTION Across South Asia and
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1.2 Definitions While acknowledging
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oys in the home, community, institu
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general, adolescent girls are thoug
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accountable for their actions, blam
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sexual abuse is reported to be prev
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abuse. 49 Death and abduction of pa
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eaches puberty. Such boys may be at
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knowledge of the intermediate situa
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2.0 SOUTH ASIA OVERVIEW 2.1 Researc
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have long experience working with a
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exploitation. The legal definition
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Afghanistan’s National Plan of Ac
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strengthen family and community pro
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constraints with the intention of i
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3.0 COUNTRY PROFILE: AFGHANISTAN 3.
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Afghanistan. Traditionally, boys ar
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unravel from cases of children sent
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well as the ‘violation of chastit
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Social Affairs, Martyrs and Disable
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orders. Data collection on the Paki
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trafficked or abused children are l
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4.0 COUNTRY PROFILE: BANGLADESH 4.1
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concerning level of child sexual ab
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As elsewhere in the world, certain
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female children in prostitution are
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control the areas where the boys wo
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In general, the country’s legisla
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children from the sexual violence i
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NPA was facilitated by an advisory
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4.4 Programme Responses 4.4.1 Child
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children living on the street. In i
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4.4.7 Addressing exploitation in tr
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5.0 COUNTRY PROFILE: INDIA 5.1 Rese
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living on the street or on boys sex
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times, these traditions have eroded
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interviewed in the study stated tha
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The Immoral Traffic Prevention Act
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assault’, which covers additional
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esidences with persons not related
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institutions. However, the NPAC has
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The Sangath Centre for Child Develo
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tourism operators, including airlin
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negotiation and protection from sex
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6.1.2 Knowledge base The knowledge
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the boys and one-quarter of the gir
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situations such as domestic labour
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fondling. 285 While an ‘unnatural
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person “shall be deemed to have c
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The NPA does not address linkages b
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programmes on child rights and chil
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Page 113 and 114: etween males is socially tolerated.
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