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GuardianMAR 29 2023
Given that over 1.5M children are homeless in Pakistan and another 2.5M are in Islamic seminaries, Pakistani youth are extremely vulnerable to sexual abuse. Pakistan's culture of willful blindness, too, has played a role in this problem, as parents often stay quiet about ongoing familial abuse and authorities release suspects after their arrest. Both the government and the citizenry must face the fact that their country has been infected by these issues, and more must be done.
While sexual abuse should be combatted anywhere it occurs, many may not know that the capital of the sex trafficking world is the US. As seen in Pakistan, though at an exponentially higher rate, tens of thousands of children in the US annually are forced into sex slavery to be victimized multiple times per day — also typically by a family member or someone they know. This is a global issue, but that doesn't mean we have the right to spotlight developing nations while ignoring the atrocities in the West.