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The world needs a similar effort against child sexual abuse and trafficking.
When children are displaced, they become highly vulnerable to trafficking and sexual abuse, underscoring the need to act decisively.
Let us be inspired by them, and wage a humanitarian war against child sexual abuse.
Discrimination and abuse against women can no longer stand.
For example, such measures could be extended to cover all of those who abuse the fundamental right of legal due process, such as the right to a fair trial.
Such measures could also include the abuse of prisoners’ rights, such as the case of Khodorkovsky’s former legal counsel Vasily Alexanyan, who was denied treatment for HIV in jail, and was released only after the intervention of the European Court of Human Rights.
But even as evidence for such abuses becomes apparent, new venues for abuse are repeatedly opened up - take the US repeal of the Glass Steagall Act, which separated commercial from investment banking.
Whether individuals can repress and recover memories of traumatic sexual abuse has been especially contentious.
While complaints against parents, based on allegedly repressed and recovered memories of abuse, have declined, those against large institutions, such as the Catholic Church, have increased.
Several surveys show that adults reporting childhood sexual abuse often say that there was a period of time when they “could not remember” their abuse.
Claims of prior inability to remember imply that they had attempted unsuccessfully to recall their abuse, only to remember it much later.
Yet if these individuals were unable to remember their abuse, on what basis would they attempt to recall it in the first place?
Most likely, they meant that there was a period of time when they did not think about their abuse.
Research conducted in my laboratory on adults reporting histories of childhood sexual abuse provides a solution to this bitter controversy.
Some of our participants reported having forgotten episodes of nonviolent sexual abuse perpetrated by a trusted adult.
When reminders prompted recollection many years later, they experienced intense distress, finally understanding their abuse from the perspective of an adult.
These cases count as recovered memories of sexual abuse, but not as instances of traumatic dissociative amnesia.
Sexual abuse is not invariably traumatic in the sense of being overwhelmingly terrifying.
Our moral sentiments both limit individuals’ abuse of the common good, expressed in the conflict between “me” and “us,” and maintain the coherence of the group, to support the competition between “us” and “them.”
After all, the protesters of the Arab Spring did not need to use – and abuse – Islam to achieve their ends.
They don’t need to spend money on prevention programs to address the psycho-social problems –overwhelming stress, poverty, discrimination, child neglect and abuse, and loneliness, to name but a few – that research has repeatedly demonstrated play a large role in undermining mental health.
The giant skeleton of a whale – possibly Leviathan itself – is beached on the shoreline, along with the carcasses of old boats, beneath a severe gray sky that frames a human landscape of political abuse, adultery, lawlessness, and the cynicism of all-powerful priests.
Moreover, it would enable governments to monetize fiscal deficits without constraints, and potentially to abuse money-printing power for political considerations.
Hard as it may be to believe, as Reverby was to discover, the abuse in Guatemala was even more egregious.
Leaving aside credible questions about the capacity of the Afghan security forces, transferring security responsibility to the Afghan state does not address broader Afghan grievances about bad governance or the abuse of power – both key drivers of the conflict.
The Pentagon has also acknowledged that it had authorized sexualized abuse of detainees as part of interrogation practices to be performed by female operatives.
Indeed, the Military Commissions Act of 2006 was written deliberately with loopholes that gave immunity to perpetrators of many kinds of sexual humiliation and abuse.
Sexual abuse in US-operated prisons got worse and worse over time, ultimately including, according to doctors who examined detainees, anal sodomy.
Finally, the victim is blamed for the abuse: in the case of the detainees, if they would only “behave,” and confess, they wouldn’t bring all this on themselves.
Just as sex criminals – and the leaders who directed the use of rape and sexual abuse as a military strategy – were tried and sentenced after the wars in Bosnia and Sierra Leone, so Americans must hold accountable those who committed, or authorized, sex crimes in US-operated prisons.
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