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This site contains sensitive content that includes references to sexual violence.
It threatens the safety and protection of children and adolescents everywhere.
Childhood sexual violence takes many forms, including child sexual abuse and exploitation, intra-familial abuse, rape, child marriage, dating violence and sexual violence among peers.
Child sexual violence has far-reaching consequences. The trauma it causes has devastating long-term effects on individuals and communities and can create harmful cycles that pass down through generations.
(Together for Girls, 2024)
(UNICEF Estimates, 2024)
(Childlight, Into the Light Index)