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One in eight girls sexually assaulted or raped before turning 18, says Unicef
First global estimates of sexual violence against children reveals ‘abhorrent magnitude’ of the human rights violation
More than 370 million women and girls alive today – or almost one in eight – experienced rape or sexual assault before they turned 18, according to the first global estimates of the problem.
A new Unicef report describes sexual violence against children as an “overwhelming” human rights violation, with survivors carrying the trauma into adulthood. It says the scale of the violation is “abhorrent in its magnitude”.
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