Sunday Guardian Live which is published in India (affiliated with the English newspaper The Guardian), has serialised Suranya Aiyar's study.
Part 1: By Suranya Aiyar SundayGuardianLive, 5 October 2015
"The Ministry of Women and Child Development’s 2007 “Study on Child Abuse” report came out with an exaggerated narrative on the phenomenon of child abuse in India. The report, even today, serves as a foundational document of the ministry. UNICEF and Save the Children were among the leading NGOs that participated in the report. The report was based on a survey that used the flawed methodology of the UNICEF and allied agencies, marked by statistical errors and an arbitrary selection of respondents. Suranya Aiyar exposes all this in “Save your child from UNICEF: A study of UNICEF’s biased and false claims about Indian parents”. Here is the first part of Aiyar’s report."
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Part 2:
By Suranya Aiyar SundayGuardianLive, 6 October 2015
"The Ministry of Women and Child Development’s 2007 “Study on Child Abuse” Report came out with an exaggerated narrative on the phenomenon of child abuse in India. The Report, even today, serves as a foundational document of the ministry. UNICEF and Save the Children were among the leading NGOs that participated in the Report. The Report was based on a survey that used the flawed methodology of the UNICEF and allied agencies, marked by statistical errors and an arbitrary selection of respondents. Suranya Aiyar exposes all this in “Save your child from UNICEF: A study of UNICEF’s biased and false claims about Indian parents”. Here is the second part of Aiyar’s Report."
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Part 3:
By Suranya Aiyar SundayGuardianLive, 8 October 2015
"A misleading report on child abuse in India, guided by UNICEF and Save the Children, an NGO, serves as a reference material for the Ministry of Women and Child Development, notwithstanding its many statistical errors and evident prejudice of the agencies involved. Quite ironically, whereas the report flays Indian parents for not treating their children as individuals, it uses children as mouthpiece to highlight their plight. Suranya Aiyar exposes all this in “Save your child from UNICEF: A study of UNICEF’s biased and false claims about Indian parents”. Here is the third part of Aiyar’s report."
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Part 4:
By Suranya Aiyar SundayGuardianLive, 14 October 2015
The Ministry of Women and Child Development is being misled by a prejudiced report on child abuse in India, guided by UNICEF and Save the Children, an NGO. The report, which the ministry has accepted to serve as its statistical anchor, has given an exaggerated number of offenders within the family by clubbing neighbours and acquaintances as relatives. The report further floats a false notion that Indian parents indulge in a “conspiracy of silence” and are prone to cover up cases of child abuse. Suranya Aiyar exposes all this in “Save your child from UNICEF: A study of UNICEF’s biased and false claims about Indian parents”. Here is the fourth part of Aiyar’s report. *
Part 5:
By Suranya Aiyar SundayGuardianLive, 19 October 2015
Here is the fifth part of Aiyar’s report. In this part, we scrutinise the Report’s (Study on Child Abuse: India 2007 http://wcd.nic.in/childabuse.pdf) claims about “emotional abuse” and “neglect” of female children.
• WHAT IS “EMOTIONAL ABUSE”? “Emotional abuse” is defined as “treating harshly, shouting, belittling, name calling and using abusive language while addressing children” and “comparison”, which is described as comparing siblings or other children with each other. • WHAT IS “GIRL CHILD NEGLECT" Girl child neglect is defined by the following so-called “indicators”: “less attention, less appreciation, less food, fault finding, household work compared to other siblings and looking after siblings”. Regarding this portion of the Report, we will not repeat the exercise of scrutinising the statistics as we have done on its claims about physical and sexual abuse. We believe that regardless of whether or not the stated statistics stand up to scrutiny, the matters discussed in this portion of the Report have no place in a study on abuse. *
Part 6:
By Suranya Aiyar SundayGuardianLive, 20 October 2015
Here is the sixth part of Aiyar’s report. • FAILURE TO TAKE INFORMED CONSENT • MISLEADING RESPONDENTS AS TO THE NATURE AND INTENTION OF THE RESEARCH • CAN YOUNG CHILDREN MEANINGFULLY GIVE CONSENT?
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