sexual abuse

The movie Bhakshak is based on the harrowing Muzaffarpur girls' shelter home case, where 34 minors endured sexual abuse — discovered during a TISS social audit in 2018. The film depicts the distressing narrative of this case, revealing systemic sexual abuse in many of Bihar’s institutions.

Devanshi Yadav was attacked by acid at 14 and faced sexual abuse at 18. She founded the ‘Shaheed Ramashray Welfare Society’ NGO in Bareilly to help victims get support and legal aid.

Cristelle Hart Singh from Switzerland came to India to volunteer for the Red Cross. But eventually she settled here and has helped hundreds of children who are victims of sexual abuse

“He kicked me in the stomach and I started bleeding profusely. At 5 weeks, I lost my baby. At that moment I was dead inside. I decided I needed to live again, this time for myself.”

"In a society where there so much of stigma associated with mental illness, sexual abuse (in this case) and having children out of wedlock, at no point did Huveta ever abandon his sister. For a brother to care for his sister, accept her children and take care of them is truly heart warming."

The 15-year-old was travelling with her father in the differently-abled compartment of a Mumbai local at the time of the incident.

“Now, I have the confidence to face a stranger, at any time of the day. The feeling that we are strong enough to face any situation has helped us shed the usual reaction of cowering — people are now calling us the tigresses of Kangazha.”

One of the things that irked the district collector was that the bathrooms did not have doors. The girls were also made to change in the hall as opposed to in bathrooms or private rooms.

"Now they are afraid of us" — find out how women in rural Assam are holding their men accountable.

18-year-old Chintu had been delivering a can of water in Noida’s Mamura village last month when he happened to notice a young girl lying on the street near the house he was providing water.