{"id":2356,"date":"2014-09-05T11:18:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T11:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2356"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:59:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T11:59:48","slug":"10-of-girls-under-20-are-raped-is-this-civilisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/10-of-girls-under-20-are-raped-is-this-civilisation\/","title":{"rendered":"10% of girls under 20 are raped. Is this civilisation?"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 120 million girls around the world – slightly more than one in 10 – have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report<\/a> says.\u00a0 The children’s agency Unicef also says 95,000 children and teenagers – most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean – were murdered in 2012 alone.\u00a0 It notes that children around the globe are routinely exposed to violence, including bullying.<\/p>\n

In the same week, The Economist discussed a shocking child sex abuse scandal in the UK.\u00a0 Here’s an extract from the Economist article:<\/p>\n

The investigation … uncovers a catalogue of offences, mostly by Pakistani men against white girls. Children as young as 11 were plied with drink and drugs, raped, beaten and trafficked to be abused by men in other cities. One was doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight. Another told the investigation that gang rape was a usual part of growing up in her district. The report estimates that some 1,400 children\u2014some from fragile family backgrounds, some in the care of the state\u2014were abused between 1997 and 2013.<\/p>\n

It tells us that repression, abuse and ignorance are a serious issue in developed economies as much as emerging ones.\u00a0\u00a0 It is especially worrying that people paid from the public purse to eliminate this primitive behaviour instead turn a blind eye to it, in some cases even insulating offenders from control or education.<\/p>\n

From the UN Report: Violence against children<\/strong><\/p>\n