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About Access to Justice for Children

Access to Justice for Children is a landmark program that aims to end child exploitation across India.

Delayed justice delivery perpetuates the crime against the victim.

When crimes are committed against children, the wait for justice can be unbearably long. This delay prolongs the trauma for the victims and their families by affecting them psychologically, socially, and economically.

 

By the end of 2022, almost 20,000 cases of child sexual abuse were awaiting police investigation, and almost 240,000 cases were awaiting trial. 

 

Across all crimes against children, more than half a million children are awaiting justice, compensation, and rehabilitation.

Access to Justice for Children is a partner-driven program breaking new ground for child protection every day by:

  • ​​​Putting India's child protection laws into practice to increase the number of cases of trafficking and child sexual abuse which are registered and heard in court, and increase the rate of convictions
     

  • Identifying child traffickers, stopping trafficking as it happens, and rescuing children who have been trafficked into exploitation with the support of law enforcement agencies
     

  • Providing tens of thousands of children with rehabilitative counseling, enabling their access to statutory compensation for registering the crimes committed against them, and claiming back wages for child laborers

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  • Engaging survivors to participate as leaders in the program through innovative interventions to protect children from exploitation
     

  • Strengthening India’s child protection laws and systems through public interest litigation and local and national advocacy.

  • Tracking online child trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation, and sexual abuse through new technologies to secure evidence and bring perpetrators to justice
     

  • Preventing child marriage, child sexual abuse, and trafficking for labor and sexual exploitation from the ground up, through community engagement and training of police and child protection staff
     

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Read about our ways of working, our theory of change, and our approach  

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Find out about our Access to Justice partners and where we work

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Learn about the different aspects of our work on the ground

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