Kailash Satyarthi calls for urgent need to have a public, sex offenders’ registry

Kailash Satyarthi calls for urgent need to have a public, sex offenders’ registry
Nobel Peace Laureate appeals to Bengaluru to lead technology war on abuse
The Bharat Yatra, launched by Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi on 11 September,
reached Bangalore on 15 th September, the sixth day of the 35-day long march across the
country to build unprecedented awareness on combating child sexual abuse and trafficking.
Speaking at the start of the Bengaluru stretch of the Yatra, Mr. Satyarthi said, “India boasts
of great scientific knowledge and talent. We should use our knowledge and expertise to
build a robust public sex offenders registry. If a comprehensive skill registry can be built by
us, then so can a public sex offenders registry, to make India safe for our children.
I urge all software engineers, disruptors, innovators and scientists to join hands and come
together in building this for our country”
At the public rally in Bengaluru to generate awareness about the growing crimes of child
sexual abuse and trafficking, Mr Satyarthi also emphasised the importance of technological
innovation and urged the people of Bengaluru to harness the power they possess and
engineer a revolutionary social change using it.
Said the Nobel Peace Laureate, “What better city than the Silicon Valley of India to lead this
war? Across the world, Bangalore is acknowledged as a hub of IT and innovation. If
innovators and entrepreneurs can deploy technology to change our day to day living, surely
we can together come up with technology to protect our children? Our smart phones can
help provide us with any information from across the world. They are supposed to be theft
proof. Surely our young innovators and scientists can create new apps that will help us
protect our children more effectively? Simple things can make a big difference.”
Ever since its launch, Bharat Yatra has been drawing enormous support from citizens across
India, including Amitabh Bachchan who tweeted to his fans to support the Yatra. Earlier,
Union Minister for Shipping and Finance Mr Pon Radhakrishnan had flagged off the Yatra
from Kanyakumari along with Mr Satyarthi. In Trivandrum, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi
Vijayan assured whole hearted support from his government in eradicating the menace of
child sexual abuse and trafficking.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had sent a personal letter to Kailash Satyarthi extending his
support to the Yatra, which will cover 11000 kilometres across 22 States, including
Karnataka. Some of the key cities it covers include Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Mumbai,
Guwahati, Bhopal, Jaipur, Srinagar among others.
Kailash Satyarthi has been campaigning for the freedom, safety and security for children
across the globe for the past 36 years. His Nobel Peace Prize (2014) was for his continuous
efforts and struggle for the rights children.

The Yatra is the launch of the three-year campaign against child rape and child sexual abuse
which is aimed at increasing awareness and reporting of the cases, strengthening intuitional
response including medical health and compensations, ensuring protection for victims and
witnesses during trials and increasing convictions of child sexual abuse in a time bound
manner.
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