![]() ![]() ![]() “On average, only two cases of sexual violence against children living in conflict areas were reported every day in 2019. Janti Soeripto, President and CEO of Save the Children, said, “Sexual violence is underreported at the best of times, but even more in conflicts areas-especially among children.” ![]() The verified cases, however, are likely to represent only a fraction of actual cases, as revealed by Save the Children’s new research. Of these, 98 percent were committed against girls, and the cases attributed to state forces almost doubled from 2018. Its most recent report on Children and Armed Conflict included 749 confirmed cases of sexual violence against children in 2019 alone. More than 20,000 cases of conflict-related sexual violence against children-one of six grave violations-have been verified by the UN since 2006. Survivors face several challenges, which are compounded in conflicts. They include a lack of systems and processes to report the crime, the stigma, the fear of retaliation, and a lack of support and services. The countries where children face the greatest risk of sexual violence in conflict are Colombia, Iraq, Somalia, South Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.* This includes the risk of rape, sexual slavery, forced prostitution, forced pregnancy, forced sterilization, forced abortion, sexual mutilation, sexual abuse, and sexual torture at the hands of armed groups, government forces, and law enforcement. Weapon of War: Sexual violence against children in conflict-which includes the very first analysis of the risk of sexual violence against children living in conflicts between 1990-2019-shows that nearly 10 times more children are at risk now than three decades ago (8.5 million in 1990). 17, 2021)-A staggering 72 million children-17 percent of the 426 million children living in conflict areas, globally, or one in six-are living near armed groups that perpetrate sexual violence against them, a new report from Save the Children reveals. ![]()
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