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207,616 children
Period: April 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024
Access to Justice for Children is one of the world's largest civil society-led legal intervention programs, working to ensure that crimes against children don't go unpunished, and that survivors receive justice and rehabilitation.
In India, seven children every hour report a sexual crime against them.
Four of them are reporting a rape.
One of them has been abducted for a child marriage.
Nine children every hour are reported kidnapped, abducted, or missing.
An estimated 15 million women aged 20-24 years old - 23.3% - were married as children.
In 2022 only 1,020 crimes of child marriage were reported.
The reported crime figures are just the tip of the iceberg. There are more than 430 million children in India, and crimes of any sort were reported for only 170,274 children (0.04%) in 2022. Many, many more cases go unreported, often due to a lack of trust in India’s legal processes and challenges in the justice delivery system.
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