We have to believe that this unseen enemy of the human race is out there, lurking and waiting to infect. Until very recently, people did not care much about child and women abuse until the #MeToo and anti-child abuse movement began. The new coronavirus will soon die out, but the lifelong suffering and pain endured by the silent, downtrodden victims of sexual violence will not. The United Nations Special Rapporteur and expert Maud de Boer-Buquicchio briefed the Special UN Human Rights Council last March 2, declaring that child sexual abuse and prostitution of children is in “every part of the world.” The sexual abuse of children over the internet are perhaps the very worst form of child sexual abuse, she said. But so much more has to be done as the world slowly awakens to the horrific prevalence and frequency of the sexual abuse of women and children.

Source: Manila Times March 14, 2020 16:15 UTC