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9 June 2019

Child abuse is a global epidemic — we need global action to eradicate if

In May of this year, a 3-year-old girl was raped in India. According to the National Crime Records Bureau, a child is sexually abused in India, my home country, every 15 minutes. But India is far from alone. n 2014, 1 billion children between the ages of 2 and 17 were the victims of physical, sexual, emotional or multiple types of violence. One statistic suggests that 200 million children worldwide face sexual violence annually.

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/446848-child-abuse-is-a-global-epidemic-we-need-global-action-to-eradicate-it