Youth Against Injustice Foundation

Youth Against Injustice Foundation[1][2] (better known by it's mission name Youth Against Rape), is a registered NGO in India founded by Piyush Monga under the Indian Trust Act. Their mission mainly focus on making India a rape free country(Rapemuktbharat). On 17th October, Piyush Monga, along with two members Ranchhod Dewasi and Yogesh Rawal started a cycle campaign of 50,0000+ km across India vowing not to return back until their mission reaches its goal[3][4][5][6]. They are continuously spreading information about their mission in this cycle ride.

Youth Against Rape
Youth Against Injustice Foundation
Piyush Monga with Ranchhod Dewasi and Yogesh Rawal on cycles
AbbreviationYAIF
NicknameYAR
MottoRape Mukt Bharat
Formation25 May, 2019
FounderPiyush Monga
Founded atHisar, Hariyana
TypeNGO
Registration no.HR/20/2019/6618
PurposeEradicate rape and false rape allegations
HeadquartersRampura Mohalla, Gali no. 1, Hisar, Haryana - 125001
Region
India
Key people
Piyush Monga, Ranchhod Dewasi, Yogesh Rawal, Yash Panwar
Websitehttp://www.yaifoundation.org/

History

Piyush Monga, a young graduated boy, who was deeply concerned for the increasing rape cases in the country, researched for several months regarding what can be done to eradicate the issue. As a result of which he manifested the idea and started a non-governmental organization, "Youth Against Injustice Foundation" that gave birth to a mission "Rape Mukt Bharat". Believing in the power of youth, he focused on uniting young minds through a social media platform. The mission was started on 25th May, 2019 from an Instagram page. Gradually youth across the nation supported the mission and became a part of the foundation. The YAR team filed a petition consisting of 8 demands on 16th August 2019. The main demands being death penalty for rapists after conviction and 14 Years Strict Imprisonment for Fake Rape Allegations. Within a short span of time, the mission to set the country rape free which was started with a single person on an Instagram page, has now teams rooted in 21 states & 3 UTs.

Petition Details

YAIF has started a petition at Change.org(Stop Rape) on 17 August 2019 with 8 Demands to amend and execute some laws –

  1. Implementation of the death penalty for Rapists on conviction.
  2. Punishment of 14 Year Imprisonment For Females Filing fake Cases against men.
  3. Compulsory sex education by experts in all schools.
  4. Proper forensic labs in every city with trained medics.
  5. Shift Cases On Fast Track Court For Rape Victims.
  6. Rules for Victim & Witness Protection.
  7. President mercy rule on Rape Cases.
  8. Permission To NGO's and Trusts to do Awareness Programs in institutions.

YAIF fights against rapes and fake rape allegations, acid attacks and human trafficking issues. They also spread awareness about sex education.They started working at online level to spread awareness and now they are working at ground level as well.[7] Their mission also includes helping the victims and innocent ones in every possible manner.

Team

The organization is well regulated and works systematically. Overall Management of YAIF is handled by 4 Admins. They mainly work on "Telegram". For each area of working, organization have separate departments on telegram. Functioning is further divided on the basis of States and Cities for which Leaders (Representatives) are appointed –

The leader conducts meetings from time to time in their groups to keep the functioning of departments and states/cities smooth & well managed. Right now they have 23 state level teams.

Activities & Campaigns

Background

According to government data from 2018, at least one woman reports a rape every 15 minutes on an average in India. Almost 34,000 rapes were reported in 2018, barely changed from the year before. Of which over 85% led to charges and 27% to convictions, says National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB) in the annual crime report released by the Ministry of Home Affairs.[8][9][10][11][12][13]

Youth Against Injustice Foundation (YAIF) works on eliminating injustice such as rape, fake rape allegations, sexual abuse, and other evils from India. Seeing the prevailing condition YAIF started a mission under the name of "Youth Against Rape" with the motive to avail justice to the victims and make them heard by the society by being their voice and spread awareness about the cause through many social media sites, like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, Public app, Your Quote, Youth Ki Awaaz, and LinkedIn. Young and adults all over India now volunteer for these causes.[14]

Outreach

Their team now covers many parts of India, it directly reaches out to 21 states (Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, West Bengal, Punjab, Bihar, Assam, Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Kerala, Telangana, Himachal Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh & Tripura) and 3 UTs (Delhi, Chandigarh and Jammu & Kashmir).

The motive of their organization is to be a voice to the victim, making them confident to seek help and take a stand for themselves against injustice. The organization is constantly working on awakening people to know their rights by conducting surveys, seminars, and awareness programs. they are inspiring today's youth to come forward to fight against injustice.

Through online modes like social media accounts, the NGO is attaining another level of response from numbers of followers. It has been noticed that with the need of the time, they keep on updating each site with important awareness information or use them as a medium to empower the society through live sessions and webinars.

The NGO worked on solving a number of rape cases and helped the victims to get justice by bringing the cases in the limelight through social media posts and campaigns.

Collaboration

The NGO is working with much more like-minded NGO'S in collaboration to attract today's youth who are well educated, well aware of the rights and duties they owe to the society and wants to bring a change by being helpful in the motive of organization i.e eradicating the evils like rape, harassment, fake rape allegations, etc from society.

www.yaifoundation.org

Y.A.I. Foundation ® on Instagram

Youth_Against_Rape on Facebook

Youth Against Rape™ on Twitter

YOUTH AGAINST INJUSTICE FOUNDATION on LinkedIn

Who We Are | Journey of YAR on YouTube

Youth Against Injustice Foundation on Tumblr

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