WARRIORS WITHOUT WEAPONS
WARRIORS WITHOUT WEAPONS A Trust’s committed battle against incest “I was raped by my father when I was 8…. and I am a boy .” This story of trauma was one of the many responses that came as part of the data collection sheet of the research that Supreet Dhiman was undertaking as part of her post-graduate diploma thesis for her course in Human Rights & Duties, Panjab University, Chandigarh. With the pandemic entering its second wave and necessitating further lockdowns, my mind was plagued almost continually with the question regarding the safety of children in the pandemic. UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund) had already recorded that many countries in S.E. Asia had the highest numbers in terms of disruption of services related to violence against children. ( Protecting Children from Violence in the Time of COVID-19: Disruptions in prevention and response services) Homebound as they were, stuck with their family and without access to outside h...