One in 3 ladies aged 15 to 17 has confronted sexual harassment or sexual violence within the Netherlands

A report exhibits that 38 % of ladies and 13 % of boys between 15 and 17 years outdated have skilled some type of sexual violence or sexual harassment within the Netherlands. Many change into victims once more inside 5 years.

The Victims’ monitor of sexual violence in opposition to youngsters 2017-2021 printed by the nationwide rapporteur on trafficking in human beings and sexual violence in opposition to youngsters on November 8 exhibits a “worrying image of sexual violence and sexual harassment in opposition to younger folks between the ages of 15 and 17″ within the Netherlands.

Primarily based on information from Statistics Netherlands, an estimated 95,000 ladies (37.8 %) and 34,500 boys (13.4 %) aged between 15 and 17 years have skilled some type of sexual violence or sexual harassment.

Furthermore, youngsters recognized as victims of sexual violence are typically victims once more. At least 35 % of 13 to 17-year-olds are once more recognized as victims by the police inside 5 years. In additional than half instances, they’re once more victims of sexual violence or expertise severe violence.

Dangers of being a sufferer once more are decrease, 14 %, when victims are beneath 12 years outdated.

A report printed final yr on victims of human trafficking within the Netherlands confirmed that fifty % of them have been victims of against the law once more inside the following seven years, and 45 % inside the subsequent 5 years. However solely eight % have been once more victims of human trafficking. The report additionally identified that the “cycle of insecurity and violence” was all of the harder to interrupt when victims are younger.

The monitor of sexual violence in opposition to youngsters additionally exhibits that the effectiveness of nearly all of present preventive interventions is unknown. “The usage of ineffective interventions could be ineffective and even have the other impact,” worries Conny Rijken, the nationwide rapporteur on trafficking in human beings and sexual violence in opposition to youngsters.

Ms. Rijken suggests sexual and relational training ought to deal with older youngsters when they’re “absolutely engaged in exploring relationships and their very own sexuality” whereas “taking note of sexuality and sexual range is at present solely obligatory for main training and the junior grades of secondary training.”

She additionally sees numerous enchancment to be made in faculties with the federal government to supply extra route in offering details about sexuality, sexual range to contribute to the prevention of sexual violence in opposition to youngsters.

Help for victims isn’t at all times obtainable.

The excellent news of the report is that public consciousness of sexual violence and sexually transgressive habits has grown in recent times.

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