COVID-19 the perfect storm for online child exploitation
“It really pained my heart,” says Masipag*, a Filipina teenager who was first sexually exploited online when she was 12 years old. “I kept asking myself, why did this happen to me?” Since…
'I was scared': A young girl's struggle to feel safe at home
Mya hides in the corner of her home when the quarrelling starts. Her mother and father have been fighting every day for four years, since she was 10 years old. Sometimes her father would…
How a young man’s search for a better life led to a decade of exploitation
By the time Norng Samen’s son returned to Cambodia after a harrowing 10-year journey abroad he was so unrecognisable that she had to check his scars to make sure it was really him.
Pikinini Defenders Alliance calls for 300 new child protection officers in PNG
ChildFund has joined other child-focused aid agencies to form an alliance aimed at increasing the protection available to vulnerable children in Papua New Guinea (PNG). The Pikinini Defenders…