We are at the forefront of transformative change for child protection in India.
Data from April 2023 – March 2025
Just Rights for Children is one of the world's largest civil society networks dedicated to ensuring that crimes against children do not go unpunished, and that survivors receive justice and rehabilitation.
Working in India, Nepal, Kenya, and the US, Just Rights for Children aims to create an ecosystem to end violence against children, with a focus on preventing child sexual abuse, through legal interventions and community engagement.
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.
