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DRC has the highest number of allegations of sexual abuse by UN peacekeepers – yet no systematic research on the claims of their abandoned children has existed until now.
Sexual exploitation and abuse requires an active rather than passive response.
Social protection measures and food distribution targeting adolescents in informal settlements are urgently needed.
Slavery and slavery-like practices exist in Australia, in the form of forced marriages, sexual exploitation and forced labour.
Airbnb now has 7m listings in more than 100,000 cities, making it larger than the eight biggest hotel groups combined.
Citizens-watch programs designed by police to aid anti-trafficking efforts threaten the rights and safety of sex workers.
It’s all too easy to miss the point about sex work in areas hit by conflict and disaster. How about listening to the people who experience it?
To stop sexual exploitation in the aid sector, more self-regulation by NGOs isn’t the answer.
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Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor, Political Science and Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies, Simon Fraser University
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