New Delhi: Fifty-three per cent of children below the age of 18 in the country are sexually abused and most do not come forward to report it, Nobel Peace Prize recipient and children’s rights activist Kailash Satyarthi said.
He was interacting with schoolchildren here on Wednesday. He added that his organisation, the Bachpan Bachao Andolan, had decided to make Karimnagar a child-friendly district or Bal Mitra Gram.
The initiative, the BBA’s website claims, seeks to create villages where every child is free from exploitation, receives education, recreation and health facilities and their voices are heard in the community in an environment of friendliness and dignity.
He said that, as part of initiative, more than 600 villages in the country were now child-friendly.
