Regular Activities

2 - 8 August 2024

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Program, our Executive Director and Senior Programs Manager travelled to Cachar, Hailakandi and Karimganj districts in Southern Assam, to conduct orientation on "Child Friendly Policing Indicators" for SPs, ASPs, DSPs and Investigating Officers.

21 July 2024

2 - 8 August 2024

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Program, the 2nd edition of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Champion Awards were organised at the Assam Police Institute, wherein 27 Police Officers were felicitated for their remarkable work in the arena of child-friendly policing

2 July 2024

2 - 8 August 2024

2 July 2024

Women's Rights Activist Anurita Hazarika along with her friends from St. Mary's School Past Pupils Association visited UTSAHs community programme and distributed umbrellas to the children, so that they could safely reach school during the monsoon season

12 June 2024

23 - 31 May 2024

12 June 2024

Our Executive Director was invited by Child Friendly Guwahati (CSO) & Labour Department of the Government of Assam to deliver a lecture on Protection of Children from Child Labour, on World Day Against Child Labour

30 May 2024

23 - 31 May 2024

12 June 2024

Our Executive Director and Senior Programs Manager were invited to Tezpur University, to interact with student Social Workers of the Department of Social Work.

23 - 31 May 2024

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Program, our Executive Director and Senior Programs Manager travelled to Dhemaji, Lakhimpur and Sonitpur districts to assess child trafficking issues in those districts

17 May 2024

23 April 2024

23 - 31 May 2024

Newly recruited Staff of District Child Protection Units visited the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Resource Centre, which is administered by the Assam Police in collaboration with UTSAH (with support from UNICEF), as part of their induction training

16 May 2024

23 April 2024

Our Executive Director conducted training for newly recruited staff of District Child Protection Units from across Assam, on the POCSO Act. The programme was organised by the Women and Child Development Department, Government of Assam

23 April 2024

Our Executive Director conducted training for staff of North East network (NEN), a leading Women's Rights Organisation from Assam. The programme was organised by North East network (NEN)

31 March 2024

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Program, the Jury's Selection Conference for finalizing the winners of the 2nd edition of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Champion Awards was organised at the Assam Police HQ

20 March 2024

31 March 2024

Our Executive Director was invited as a Guest Speaker to the Royal Global University, Guwahati, Assam. The topic of the speech was "Role of Media in Child Protection"

20 March 2024

31 March 2024

20 March 2024

We participated in an in-depth consultative meeting organised by the Women and Child Development Department, Government of Assam, for finalizing the State Juvenile Justice Model Rules

19 March 2024

25 February 2024

20 March 2024

Our Executive Director conducted a training for Child Protection functionaries of Bodoland Territorial Region (BTR) districts on the POCSO Act. The programme was organised by Government of BTR, in collaboration with NEDAN Foundation and UNICEF

25 February 2024

Our Executive Director was invited as a Guest Speaker for the INY Conclave 3.0 organised by the Integrated Network of Youth Assam, a youth organisation based in Nagaon District Assam. The subject was Child Protection issues in Assam.

15 February 2024

25 February 2024

Our Executive Director conducted a training on the POCSO Act, for women community leaders of Nizdola, Udalguri District. The programme was organised by North East Network (NEN), a leading Women's Rights Organisation of Assam.

20 November 2023

WORLD CHILDREN'S DAY : As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Program, we provided technical assistance to the entire Police Force to partake in the global GO BLUE campaign; wherein the Assam Police Headquarter, the CID Headquarter, 4 Range IGP Offices, 36 SP Offices and 300 Police Stations illuminated in the colour Blue.

19 November 2023

20 November 2023

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Program, we organised an interactive session from children from children's homes and communities, with internationally acclaimed athlete Hima Das; at the 4th Assam Police Battalion Guwahati

18 November 2023

20 November 2023

18 November 2023

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Program, we curated four educative videos on Child Protection issues featuring Harmeet Singh, IPS, Special DGP; Partha Sarathi Mahanta, IPS, DIG; Sarmistha Baruah, APS, AIG and Geetanjali Doley, APS, ASP. The videos were published on the Assam Police social media handles

17 November 2023

18 November 2023

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Program, we organised an interactive session, on Child Protection, for students of Delhi Public School, Guwahati with Harmeet Singh, IPS, Special Director General of Police, Assam

16 November 2023

17 November 2023

16 November 2023

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Program, we organised an interactive session, on Child Protection, for children of Child Care Institutions with GP Singh, IPS, the Director General of Police, Assam. Children from 24 children's homes across Kamrup Metro attended the programme, which was organised at the Assam Police Headquarters in Guwahati

15 November 2023

17 November 2023

16 November 2023

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Program, we provided technical support to Superintendent's of Police and OCs across the State to organise awareness programs on child protection in schools and communities. Over 20,000 children were reached out through this initiative, that is a part of the Child Rights Week Celebrations.

15 November 2023

14 November 2023

We collaborated with Topcem Cements to provide stationary gift boxes to Child Care Institutions and Children's Organisations across Kamrup Metro district. This program is a part of Topcem's CSR initiative which is organised every year during Child Rights week.

14 November 2023

On National Children's Day, we were invited by the District and Sessions Court and the District Child Protection Unit of Nagaon District to give an orientation on "Role of Support Persons under the POCSO Act", for Para Legal Volunteers, Education Department Volunteer, staff of District Child Protection Unit and staff of Children's Homes from Nagaon

14 November 2023

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Programme, we kickstarted the Child Rights Week 2023 celebrations with an essay contest, announced on Assam Police' Social Media handles. The top five essays would be published on the Assam Police Social Media and on the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Journal. The themes of the essays are Cyber crime and Child Labour

20 October 2023

National Police Academy publishes an academic article on the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Programme, Jointly written by Special Director General of Police and our Executive Director

19 October 2023

20 October 2023

Our Executive Director was invited as a Speaker by the Assistant High Commission of Bangladesh, Guwahati Office, on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Sheikh Russel, the youngest son of Mujibur Rahman, who was assassinated at the age of 10

14 October 2023

20 October 2023

14 October 2023

As a part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Programme, our team travelled to 9 Police Ranges and trained 577 Police Officers in Child Rights laws from all the 36 Districts of Assam, from 8 September 2023 to 14 October 2023

11 October 2023

20 October 2023

14 October 2023

UTSAH with support from the Assam police Sishu Mitra Resource Centre organized a talk for girl children of TC School Guwahati, led by Sarmistha Barua, APS, Assistant Inspector General of Police and Geetanjali Doley, APS, Additional Superintendent of Police, CID; on the occasion of International Day of the Girl Child

25 September 2023

Our Executive Director was invited to speak on Child Rights for The Conclave organized by News channel Pratidin Time, organized in New Delhi.

14 September 2023

25 September 2023

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra programme, our team conducted a 2-day Pre-Service Training programme on Child Rights Laws for trainee DSPs & Sub-Inspectors from Arunachal Police, Nagaland Police, Tripura Police & Assam Police (66 DSPs and 265 Sub-Inspectors of the Assam Police), at the North East Police Academy (NEPA), Meghalaya, on the 13 and 14 September 2023

4 September 2023

25 September 2023

4 September 2023

The draft format for the Special Juvenile Police Units that was prepared by us, as part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Programme, was notified by the Department of Home and Political, Government of Assam.

2 September 2023

25 September 2023

4 September 2023

We partnered with the District Child Protection Unit, Kamrup Metro, to organize a sensitization programme for journalists from Guwahati, on Child Rights compliant reporting. The session was facilitated by Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta, IPS (retd.), Chief Information Commissioner of Assam, and Former Assam DGP

26 August 2023

Padma Vibhushan Awardee and Member of Parliament, Dr. Sonal Mansingh, and noted Assamese dancer Mridusmita Das, performed in solidarity to our newly conceptualized girl child empowerment initiative named SASHAKTI; at Radisson Blu, Guwahati, Assam

22 August 2023

26 August 2023

We partnered with the District Child Protection Unit, Kamrup Metro, to organize a high-level Stakeholders Meeting to address challenges related to Child Rights implementation in Kamrup Metro District. The programme was chaired by Pallav Gopal Jha, IAS, District Commissioner, Kamrup Metro, Assam

11 August 2023

26 August 2023

11 August 2023

We travelled to Lachit Barphukan State Police Academy in Dergaon, Golaghat District, to train Pre-Promotion Sub-Inspectors (Batch of 2011) in Child Rights laws

25 July 2023

26 August 2023

11 August 2023

WILEY, an international academic journal, published an article on "Creative and flexible deployment of systems methodologies for child rights and child protection through Holistic Flexibility", jointly written by our Executive Director, along with Rajneesh Chowdhury from University of Birmingham, UK, and Amanda Gregory from University of Hull, UK

8 June 2023

30 May 2023

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Programme, we prepared the proforma for registration of child-related complaints on the Assam Police' Online grievance redressal Seva Setu platform - polcitizen.assam.gov.in

30 May 2023

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Programme, we trained Police Officers from all the 12 Government Railway Police Stations across Assam, on Child Protection and Child Trafficking laws; organized at the Government Railway Police HQ at Guwahati, Assam

10 May 2023

30 May 2023

8 April 2023

We were invited to train the Chairperson's and Members of all the Child Welfare Committees of Jammu and Kashmir, on the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO Act); organized by the Government of Jammu and Kashmir, in Jammu

8 April 2023

30 May 2023

8 April 2023

As the Gauhati High Court completed 75 years, our Executive Director was requested to write an article on his experiences of working closely with the Gauhati High Court in child-related cases; which was published by The Assam Tribune

25 March 2023

28 February 2023

25 March 2023

As a part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra programme, we collaborated with the District Child Protection Unit of Barpeta district to organise a day-long training for Police Officers of Barpeta district; in a programme supported by the Women and Child Development Department, Government of Assam

16 March 2023

28 February 2023

25 March 2023

We were invited by the National Institute for Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD), Assam, to train the Child Welfare Committees from the Northeast Indian states, on POCSO Act and POCSO Rules

4 March 2023

28 February 2023

As part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Programme, we provided technical support to the Assam Police to set up a stall themed around the Sishu Mitra Programme; in the Assam Child Protection Day celebrations on the 4 March 2023

28 February 2023

Our Executive Director was invited to present an address on Child Protection, at the International Knowledge Festival organised by the Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, Assam

25 February 2023

10 February 2023

25 February 2023

Our Executive Director was invited to conduct a training on "Role of Support Persons under the POCSO Act", for Special Public Prosecutors from Special POCSO Court across Assam; organised by National Law University and Judicial Academy, Assam

24 February 2023

10 February 2023

25 February 2023

Our Executive Director was invited to conduct an on "Child Protection issues with special focus on Child Marriage", for Media Persons from across Guwahati city; organised by Gauhati Press Club

10 February 2023

We organised an awareness campaign on "Risks associated with Child Marriage and Teenage Pregnancy", at the Hafiznagar No 2 community, an informal settlement in eastern Guwahati; organized in partnership with the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Programme

28 January 2023

10 February 2023

As a part of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Programme, we assisted in organizing the first edition of the Assam Police Sishu Mitra Champion Awards, in Bongaigaon; through which 30 Police Officers, from the rank of Additional DGP, to SPs, to Sub-Inspectors, were awarded for outstanding work in the area of Child Protection. The Assam DGP and Special DGP, gave away the awards to all the Officers