Sharifa Sultana
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States
The challenge of designing against child sexual abuse becomes more complicated in conservative societies where talking aboutsex is tabooed. Our mix-method study, comprised of an online survey, five FGDs, and 20 semi-structured interviews in Bangladesh,investigates the common nature, location, and time of the abuse, post-incident support, and possible combating strategies. Besidesrevealing important facts, our findings highlight the need of decentering the design from the victims (children and/or guardians)to the community. Hence, building on the theory of transformative justice, we prototyped and evaluated‘ShishuShurokkha’– anonline tool that involves the whole community by allowing anonymous bystander reporting, visualizing case-maps, connecting withlegal, medical, and social support, and raising awareness. The evaluation ofShishuShurokkhashows the promise for such a communalapproach toward combating child sexual abuse, and highlights the needs for sincere involvement of the government, NGOs, the legal,educational, and religious services in this.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3491102.3517543
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