Millions of children abused in East Asia, Pacific – UNICEF

According to the report from United Nations’ children’s fund UNICEF, more than thirty percent of children from East Asia and Pacific are victims of child abuse.

They put forward for consideration that one out of ten children suffers physical abuse and 30.3 percent are affected. The East Asia and Pacific is a place for most number of children which has five hundred eighty million children or more than a quarter of the children around the globe.

Extreme physical abuse that results to injury is widespread, affecting about one in four children in other regional areas.

Based on the report, they discovered that fourteen to thirty percent of young children suffer forced sex, from 13.8 percent in the Mariana Islands to 29.3 percent in the Marshall Islands.

Most of the children’s first encounter in sexual intercourse is forced and girls are generally having higher cases than boys.

There is a development in the study about the subject but many countries in the district have limited detailed information on child abuse.

Victims of child abuse are more likely to be weak or impaired, begin to have psychological problems, suicidal tendency, show physical manifestation and exposed to a high level of danger.

The influence of abuse is increasing in quantity for those children who are repeatedly abused and far more likely to suffer critical extensive effect.

In North Korea and China, most of the children suffer from emotional abuse. Child labor in Vietnam and Cambodia is rampant which ranges from 6.5 percent in Vietnam to 56 percent in Cambodia.

T. Win