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STOP. Trafficking and Oppression of children and women. Right Based Approach to Mental Health Care in Institutional Settings. Different situations of children in shelter homes. Trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation Victims of abuse Victims of child marriage

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  1. STOP Trafficking and Oppression of children and women

  2. Right Based Approach to Mental Health Care in Institutional Settings

  3. Different situations of children in shelter homes • Trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation • Victims of abuse • Victims of child marriage • Parents considered unfit for their care • Abandoned, missing and street children • HIV positive • Child labour

  4. Various mental condition of the survivors Anxiety, Helplessness, hyper vigilant, loss of interest in life, inability to sleep, worry about their future, guilt feeling, intrusive memories, low self esteem, lack of confidence, trauma related to stigma, lack of trust

  5. Constraints and Dilemmas Individuals against Institutions

  6. Linguistic victimisation • Reference to children as ‘Inmates’ by the system. • Inmate connotes a person subject to confinement. • The principle of confinement by the legal system through the institutional settings is a deviation from the Right Based Approach.

  7. Constraints of an Institutional Setting: Dilemmas of the individual • Compulsion to follow an imposed structure in day to day activities. • Generalised rehabilitation plans overriding individual aspirations and needs. • Lack of access to the world outside the boundaries of the institutional structure. • Inability to provide special care and need based personalised space to individuals. • Moral code imposed by the administrative policies of the institutional set up • Lack of provisions to accommodate the change in individual rights when girls turn 18 years of age.

  8. Infrastructural Constraints of Institutional Settings • Provisions for a consellor is insufficient to appoint competent individuals. • Only a limited set of livelihood training programmes can be made available- not sufficient to cater to individual future aspirations. • Limited access to the outer world due to lack of mobility and exposure.

  9. Victim to Survivor: a journey or struggle? • Change in language of the legal system does not reflect on the realities experienced by individuals. • The guilt feeling persists- restraining them from becoming a survivor. • Constraints imposed limits the ability to make individual choices. • Discrimination against survivors of trafficking • Concept of child protection is misinterpreted in the name of “safe custody”.

  10. THANK YOU - Smritikana Gosh STOP

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