This paper by Suranya Aiyar (click here to read) refutes point-for-point the claims of UNICEF, Save the Children and associated child rights NGOs about parents and children in India in its 2007 Child Abuse Report to the Ministry of Women and Child Development. Aiyar analyses the report as an example of everything that is “debatable, misrepresented and blatantly false in the UNICEF-Save the Children presentation of the state of Indian children, and their suggested solution in the form of Western-style child protection, which the Government has apparently endorsed.”

This paper was serialised in October-November 2015 in the Sunday Guardian.

Part I: http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/1233-unicef-style-survey-magnifies-child-abuse-problem-india

Part II: http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/1260-unicef-demonises-indian-parents-malicious-stories-child-abuse

Part III: http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/1289-unicef-s-misleading-report-child-abuse-ignores-views-juvenile

Part IV: http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/1454-unicef-forced-juveniles-role-play-elicit-targeted-response-child-abuse

Part V: http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/1565-unicef-resorted-misusing-concepts-child-neglect-and-emotional-abuse

Part VI: http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/1566-unicef-deliberately-misled-child-respondents-their-parents-about-nature-research

Part VII: http://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/1567-unicef-misrepresented-indian-families-being-abusive-when-data-suggested-otherwise