Aawaaj is registered under District Administration Office/Surkhet, with registration No: 180-056-057 and is affiliated with the Social Welfare Council (SWC) with affiliation No. 13616. AAWAAJ is registered in Internal Revenue Department and its Pan number is 301819051.

There is a little awareness and acknowledgement of sexual violence as a wide phenomenon in our society where an open discussion on sex is considered to a taboo. The sexual abuse of young girls has not yet been discussed openly. There is a tendency to deny and conceal this form of violence by the family and the community at large in rural or urban area.

It is a bitter reality that most of the sexual violence of girls is silently tolerated. Although increasing cases of exploitation of children (done for commercial purposes) such as trafficking, prostitution is being reported but it is rarely reported as the cases, which is happening in public and private spaces.

Most victims of sexual violence are afraid to disclose their abuser and many never do so, due to fear of losing 'family honor' repercussion, embarrassment, shame, guilt and the fear of being ignored or blamed. At the other hand Abusers in most cases, also use threats. Sexual violence can have long-lasting effects on the personality of a victim even if it has happened at a young age, or just once, or was not very severe. There are many negative consequences found of such ill practices and behavior in the society. Especially the girls and women who had faced sexual violence there are serious effects and why they cannot raise voice despite of sexual violence is most important. There is no only single effects, it always come one to another. All victims of sexual violence are psychologically, physically, socially, academically disturbed and live under a lot of stress but these are never discussed and never seek solutions in wider society by development agencies.

There is a need to mobilize whole community to not only provide knowledge about it but also challenge attitudes about these issues. Though the problem of sexual violence existed from a very long time, we feel that it needs to be targeted especially to boys and men along with women and girls and young people to take social action in reality that would take social momentum against sexual violence of girls / women through out the country. It was found that majority of girls and women are facing sexual violence from public spaces and seems that it has been taken as birth right as a male to do and as a girl and woman it has been compel to accept such situation and no way to change. In most of the society, there is no mechanism of listening views of the victims. Therefore, the girls and women who are the victims of sexual violence tolerate it and think it should not be exposed. It seems that a lot of work needs to be done at all levels simultaneously and rapidly to end all kinds of violence.