South Africa has the highest incidence of * * * cases in the world, and many victims are children or even babies. They should have enjoyed a carefree childhood, but they have to suffer both physical and mental torture, and nightmares may haunt them for life.
* * * What happened to the baby? Disaster?
In a humble residential building in downtown Johannesburg, there is a building called. Teddy bear? In the clinic, the patients are all sexually abused children. Looking into the narrow room from the window, I saw a bunch of plastic toys being thrown away at sixes and sevens, and a doll's beautiful purple hair was torn off.
? Children will throw toys and attack each other for no reason. Some children buckle their skin with their nails, and they are bloody, but they are completely unaware of the pain. Consultant Liesel said? Most of them don't know what happened to them, but I know that I won't forget any of them. ?
In the waiting room of the clinic, there is such a line: Please don't let it become your nightmare. ?
The clinic keeps a thick file, which records the information of children admitted to the hospital. Nomsha is one of them. One day four years ago, 2-year-old Nomsha was taken away by a man while playing in front of her house. The next afternoon, people found her in a telephone booth, bleeding profusely. Today, Nomsha still can't get rid of the sequelae, and waiting for her may be a lifetime of pain.
Justine is another unfortunate girl. After her mother got drunk, she left her 4-year-old child alone with two men in a dirty hotel room. When I came back, I found my daughter bleeding internally because of * * *.
Of the perpetrator? Prey? Not just girls. Thomas, an 8-year-old boy from Pretoria, was dragged into a taxi on his way to school and was seriously injured. In the next two years, he was unable to walk, suffered from mental illness and remained silent all day.
In South Africa, children's incidents spread like an epidemic. The headline of the Cape Guardian tells a shocking serial case in the local area: a 9-month-old baby girl was killed and her life was dying, but her mother was nowhere to be seen; A few days later, another girl died of poisoning on her second birthday, and the murderer is still at large.
Interpol estimates that South Africa has the highest incidence of * * * cases in the world. In the past five years, an average of 6.5438+0.6 million to 6.5438+0.7 million women and children suffered from AIDS every year, and 30% of the victims may be infected with AIDS.
? Teddy bear? Chahda, deputy director of the clinic? Omar said that in June last year, 165438+ 10, more than 500 children in KwaZulu natal province were hospitalized after suffering from * * * *, and many died because of ineffective treatment, some of them were only a few months old.
According to the children's charity? Unity? A survey report from 2008 to 2009 showed that more than 500 children in South Africa were tortured by * * * every day, and only one in eight of them reported the case to the police. Due to excessive fright, the child victims are often unable to describe their experiences to the police, and the process of solving the case is difficult.
? Male sense of power? Trouble?
? What the hell happened to this country? ? Facing the * * * children's case? Epidemic? In reality, Carol, one of the founders of Cape Town Crisis Trust Fund? Bauer can't help asking questions.
There are about 5 million HIV carriers in South Africa, which is one of the countries with the most serious AIDS epidemic in the world. On average, about 600 people die of this disease every day. Some local superstitions believe that having sex with babies or virgins can cure AIDS. This has reduced many children to? Prey? .
? Men turn their targets to infants or children below 10, looking for? Clean? Blood? Ma Melato, head of the Eselin Street Health Center? Leopold said,? This is all because of ignorance and lack of education. This is the disease of the whole country. ?
However, some women's and children's rights activists believe that the main reason for the frequent occurrence of * * * cases is that men try to seek * * *? Sense of power? .
There is a big gap between the rich and the poor in South Africa. In small towns, living conditions are simple, crowded and drug abuse is prevalent. ? Teddy bear? Luke, founder and director of the clinic? Lamprecht analyzed that in these places, men are at the bottom of society, with low education level, suffering from unemployment and full of dissatisfaction with society. Sense of power? Seriously missing. So, they tried to vent their dissatisfaction through * * *.
For example, in order to retaliate against society, Noxham Tu, a soldier and HIV carrier in Free State Province? Zi Kehu killed 12 children 1 1 to 14 years old and deliberately infected them with diseases. In order to increase the chance of infection, he even deliberately cut the victim's body, which was cruel.
Protector of women's and children's rights and interests Tim Bucero? Botha analyzed that the social pressure faced by South African men is not unrelated to the apartheid system.
1948 After South Africa came to power, apartheid was fully implemented. During this time, men completely regard women and children as? Possession? To have sex with the latter as a manifestation of exerting power.
1994, South Africa abolished apartheid and held its first democratic election. However, Lamprecht believes that this has not made all people enjoy social justice. Especially since 40% of the unemployed are mostly black? . Unemployment, no hope for the future, no social status, these men feel the sense of vulnerability and insecurity, forcing them to continue from? Intimate relationship? Seeking some form of strength.
? The apartheid system in the past made violence a means of control and a social norm. Bauer said,? Men vent their anger, helplessness and shame on the most vulnerable women and children. It used to be like this, and it still hasn't changed. ?
Call for the establishment of institutional guarantee
South Africa's attitude towards protecting women and children has made many people dissatisfied. Botha said that the African National Congress of South Africa has remained silent on the phenomenon of domestic incidents. In Bauer's view, South Africa can be said to be the perpetrator? Conspiracy? ,? * * * There are many misogynists who have no intention of solving this problem? .
Bauer pointed his finger at Jacob, the South African president and polygamist. Zuma. Zuma was accused of * * * but was acquitted in 2006. Outside the court, his supporters burned photos of the women involved and beat the women who testified to show their solidarity with him.
? The Zuma incident has greatly undermined our efforts to change our attitude towards women. Botha said,? After 20 years of democracy, people began to think that life was finally on the right track, but this case seems to remind us how insignificant the previous progress was. ?
In 2006, South Africa abolished the Child Protection Act, which was attacked by the awareness of protecting the rights and interests of women and children. Charity organization? Preventing child abuse? Is Miranda in charge? Friedman said that today, due to the lack of institutional guarantee, clinics set up by charitable organizations have become the only shelters for child victims. However, due to overcrowding, some children need to wait in line for treatment, which may take up to two years.
Now? Teddy bear? Clinic? Child hotline? Charitable organizations and others have called for the re-enactment of the Child Protection Law to provide institutional guarantee for the protection and assistance of child victims.
Protectors of women's and children's rights also call on ordinary people to unite to protect children. In a slum with 750,000 people living in Kayalisha Town, Cape Town, the number of children's incidents is increasing year by year. Local charity? Simelala? Project leader Tara? Apara Ji believes that this situation is related to the lack of parental supervision of local children. We are raising money to build a safe place for children. We must unite, help each other and protect the next generation? .
? If your neighbor's husband is beating her, please protect her children for the time being. If there is a fight in the street, or someone is taking drugs outside your house, please take your children and neighbors' children to a safe place. Apara Ji said,? At any time, all of us must shoulder the responsibility of being mothers. ?
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August is South Africa's Women's Month every year, and August 9 is South Africa's Women's Day. All walks of life in South Africa pay more and more attention to the protection of women's rights and interests, but the high incidence of * * * cases has aroused widespread concern in South Africa.
It is reported that South Africa has the highest incidence of * * * cases in the world, with an average of * * * cases every 26 seconds. According to a survey released by the Medical Research Council of South Africa, a quarter of men in South Africa have had sex with women, and half of women have. What is even more worrying is that the victims of this * * * case also include children and babies. In order to protect these children, preschool teachers have begun to teach them what is improper contact and what is * * * treatment.
Relevant data show that the South African police received an average of nearly five cases. 50,000 * * * case report. Experts estimate that only 4% of the victims of the * * * case chose to report the case, and only 8% of the victims were convicted in the end. The victims are unwilling to report the case, on the one hand, because of their inner fear and helplessness and cultural and traditional factors at work, and on the other hand, because the judicial organs have low ability to detect the * * * case, many criminals have not been punished as they should.
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Lisa, a lawyer at the Horton District Legal Publicity Center in Johannesburg, South Africa? Wei Deng said that the low reporting rate of victims shows a terrible reality, that is, many women are disappointed with the judicial system. They are worried that if the police can't help them after reporting the case, people around them, including family members, will laugh and despise them. In addition, there are many black women in South Africa who know nothing about the law and cannot protect themselves through legal channels after being victimized.