16% OF LEBANON CHILDREN'S SUFFER SEXUAL ABUSE

In collaboration with the Swedish organisation Save the Children, the Lebanese association, Enough Violence and Exploitation, has organised a course in Beirut for the protection of children from sexual abuse. So reports Mena news agency, upon the results of a study carried out on Lebanese children.

The study says that the number of children who suffer sexual abuse every year has gone up to 16.1%, while 54.1% suffer physical abuse. Some 40.8% of children witness violence in their family, while 64.4% suffer psychological violence.

The course involved 25 people, who were given a guide helping children with self-defence in cases of sexual abuse. (ANSAmed).

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