Adv. Vidya Selvamony

Key Publications:

1. An Investigation report on Tourism and Displacement: A case of people living in Pillikula near Mangalore, Karnataka.
2. Coastal Investors Calling: Compilation of information on how Karnataka Government is calling private entrepreneurs to invest in coastal development
3. Document-Update, it is a half yearly compilation of trends and analysis of tourism development in the world.
4. Dossier on Rights of the Child in the context of tourism
5. Unholy Nexus: Male Child Sexual Exploitation in Pilgrim Tourism Sites in India- Tirupati, Guruvayoor and Puri” – funded by End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purpose (ECPAT)
6. Paper on Child Labour and Tourism: Ugly face of Tourism
7. Provided inputs to the draft Information Technology (amendment) Act and initiated a campaign
8. Provided inputs to the Model Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood and Regulation of Street Vendors) Bill 2009
9. Undertook a Fact finding on the inhuman and illegal eviction and demolition at Hampi
   Bazaar
10. Paper on Land Acquisition for Tourism: Review of State Practices, Laws and Policies.
11. Unholy Nexus: Male Child Sexual Exploitation in Pilgrim Tourism Sites in India- Tirupati, Guruvayoor and Puri” – funded by End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purpose (ECPAT)
12. In the Heart of Incredible India- Exploitation of Children in Tourism: Child sexual abuse and Child labour in tourism in Madhya Pradesh, May 2013

Awards, recognitions and honors:

1. Judges- Preliminary Round, 4th National Moot Court Competition, organised by B.M.S College of Law, March 2019.
2. Best speaker at the Two Days interdisciplinary National Seminar on “Durgs and Cosmetics- A Legal Perspective” organised by Karnataka Institute for Law and Parliamentary Reform in collaboration with Vivekananda College of Law, March 2018.
3. Judges- Preliminary Round, 3rd National Moot Court Competition, organised by B.M.S College of Law, March 2017.
4. Rio de Janeiro- Brazil for participating and presenting papers at the World Congress III – November 2013 against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescent
5. ITB Berlin presented paper on “Situation of child abuse with links to tourism in India”, 2011
6. Berlin, Germany for participating and presenting papers at the Expert 2010 on “Tackling the Sexual Exploitation of Children by strengthening the cooperation between NGOs, law enforcement authorities and the private sector – How to improve reporting procedures?” organised by ECPAT International.
7. Nepal- To participate and present a paper on Information Technology and child sexual exploitation in tourism at the South Asia Forum (SAF) Regional Preparatory Consultation for the World Congress III against Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents organized by ECPAT International, August 2008.
8. Nepal- To participate and present a paper on Situation on children in India at the ECPAT International’s South Asia Regional Network Resource Exchange (RNRE), February 2007
9. Nepal- To participate and facilitated the Regional Capacity Building Training on Child Safe Organizations organized by End Child Prostitution, Child pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purpose (ECPAT) International, August 2007

Advocate Vidya Selvamony is a visiting faculty in CMR School of Legal Studies (w.e.f. June 2017), alongside doing consulting in Terre des hommes Germany – India Programme, as Co-ordinator. She has her own Trust going by the name of Legal Aid Trust, which was established in 2013 as a part of her philanthropy activity, where she is an Advocate and a Managing Trustee. Before this, she was the Programme Co-ordinator at Equitable Tourism Options (EQUATIONS) from Feb 2004 to May 2013, even before that, she was an Advocate in Thiru & Thiru Associates (Advocates & Solicitors) from Aug 2000 to Jan 2004.