Published 18:27 IST, June 7th 2020

'Child abuse needs to stop': Kartik Aaryan, Smriti Irani, Rahman share hard-hitting video

Child abuse needs to stop, was the message that Kartik Aaryan, Smriti Irani, Rahman and others shared as they posted a hard-hitting video to promote a helpline

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Apart from ir on-screen endeavours, celebrities are kwn to lend ir support to various social causes. Apart from ones y take up in a personal capacity, stars back various initiatives led by government or deals with a public service anuncement. Recently, several stars came toger to support an anti-child abuse campaign.

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Union Minister Smriti Irani, Kartik Aaryan, AR Rahman, Shekhar Kapur were among who shared mess, promoting helpline number and urging everyone to report such incidents. y also shared a hard-hitting video, where children witness domestic abuse at home, are made to carry out work, apart from emotional and physical abuse y are subjected to by ir elders.  video urged all to save ir childhood by calling at helpline number 1098.

Kartik Aaryan wrote, ‘Child abuse needs to stop’. Smriti Irani urged all to inform ir children of system that was available to ‘protect m, rescue m, rehabilitate m’ while urging all t to be 'mute spectators' to such incidents.

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Rahman wrote that it was important to protect children and prevent such cases from 'becoming a silent pandemic.' Shekhar Kapur questioned why children were ‘angry, damd’ when parents love m so much. 

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Huma Qureshi wrote how children need to take care of mselves and speak up. Kalki Koechlin also tweeted. 

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video has been directed by Bhanupreet Kaur. video has earned 200K views in a day.

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18:26 IST, June 7th 2020