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ULA Administration Conducts Awareness Campaign to Eradicate Underage Rape in Paletwa District
- May 8
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News ၊ May 8, 2026
The district party and administrative department have led an educational awareness campaign aimed at eradicating underage rape within Paletwa District.
The campaign involved visiting villages across Paletwa Township to provide educational talks, focusing primarily on seven key points that parents and guardians must strictly follow.
The seven essential points for parents and guardians are:
Body Safety Education: Parents must teach children that certain parts of their body are "private parts" and that no one is allowed to touch them. Specifically, children must be taught to refuse and say "no" to anyone—other than parents—who attempts to kiss their lips or touch their chest, buttocks, and genitals.
Prohibiting Photography: Parents must instruct children not to allow anyone to touch their private parts or take photographs of them. This is to protect children from individuals with abnormal sexual interests (pedophiles) who seek out and collect photos of children's private parts or nude images.
Refusing Harassment: Children should be taught not to allow others to touch their genitals and to refuse if someone asks the child to touch theirs. They should understand that such requests are abnormal and dangerous.
Breaking the Silence on Threats: Perpetrators often threaten to kill the child's parents or guardians if they tell anyone. Because children may endure repeated abuse in silence due to these threats, parents must assure them that they are safest when they share everything with their parents, no matter what happens.
Dealing with Deception: Perpetrators may use "play" as a guise for abuse and manipulate children into keeping secrets by claiming they won't play together anymore if the child tells. Parents must emphasize that there should be no secrets between children and parents.
Awareness of Known Offenders: Children must be warned that offenders are not always strangers; they can be family members, relatives, or acquaintances. Statistics show that 93% of underage rape cases are committed by someone the child knows, while only 7% are committed by total strangers. Children must be told openly that such behavior is unacceptable, regardless of who the person is.
Constant Supervision: Parents and guardians should never leave a child alone. Children should not be sent on errands alone, go to distant toilets by themselves, or wander around the village unaccompanied. Increased vigilance and protection are especially necessary during twilight hours.
Source@GEM
