Mette Ivie Harrison, award-winning, national bestselling, New York Times Notable author of The Bishop’s Wife and many other novels for adults and teens, portrays a teen struggling through the trauma of sexual assault. A woman desperate to help her see justice. And the institutional barriers to achieving this in a community known to safeguard its men and stifle its women. It defines rape culture and the national issue of escalating teen homelessness.
As our culture has become more and more sexualized, children have become the casualties of adult exploitation.
A mass grave containing the remains of 215 children has been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people.
The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978.
The discovery was announced on Thursday by the chief of the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said it was a “painful reminder” of a “shameful chapter of our country’s history”.
Recently, the international child welfare agency UNICEF published a report which caused widespread concern amongst child safety experts and advocates. UNICEF stated, “the evidence is inconsistent, and there is currently no universal agreement on the nature and extent of the harm caused to children by viewing content classified as pornography.”
In response to this troubling report, NCOSE(National Center on Sexual Exploitation)coordinated a joint letter to UNICEF, signed by 487 child safety experts and advocates from 26 countries. We called on UNICEF to review the overwhelming body of research which proves pornography does in fact cause harm to children and update their own report in response.
Since the sending of the joint letter, UNICEF removed the report from their website.
Victory! The harmful messaging UNICEF’s report contains is no longer being publicized. We are hopeful that this means they are editing the report to take into account the research that we brought to their attention.
Facebook’s apps were used in more than half of online child sex crimes from October 2019 to October 2020, new NSPCC data reveals. Private messaging is a major source of risk as it is the most common avenue for abusers to contact children.
The escalation and PORNIFICATION of our children.
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Over 700 survivors and advocates called on Congress to demand that the Department of Justice conduct a criminal investigation into Pornhub’s parent company MindGeek, warning that the pornography platform is permitting “grave crimes” to continue.
