Quarterly Report January to March 2019
Quarterly Report January to March 2019 REPORT ON CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE AND EXPLOITATION The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) recently released a report on child sexual abuse and exploitation, based on a study of the approach which 40 countries took to such offences. South Africa was one of the countries included in the study. It ranked 15th out of 40 for its measures to protect children against sexual abuse and exploitation, according to an index the EIU developed. We can, and we must, protect children from all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation in all settings. Children deserve nothing less. Here are 10 things that emerged from the report, titled Out of the Shadows. 1) Just over half (21) of the 40 countries analysed have legal protections for boys within their child rape laws. 868 Children 2) Sexual abuse is happening everywhere, regardless of a assisted country's socio-economic status or its citizens' quality of life. 3) Sexual abuse is increasingly enabled by the internet but at the FOR FREE same time, an experimental internet program is "crawling" the web to find abusive and exploitative images of children to have Jan to March them reported and removed. 4) Children with disabilities, those displaced through trafficking or forced migration, those living in care institutions and those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender can be especially vulnerable. 5) At household and community level, chaotic lifestyles resulting from neglect, alcohol and substance abuse are linked to most forms of violence against and among children. 1 6) The absence of protective relationships and environments are factors that are often predictive of sexual violence against children across cultures.
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