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Thu 11 Nov 2009Child sex abuse rampant in Zimbabwe, says campaigner
TENS OF thousands of children in Zimbabwe have been sexually assaulted over the past 10 years, according to a leading children’s rights campaigner who has been forced to flee the country.
Betty Makoni, who founded the Zimbabwean NGO Girl Child Network (GCN) in 1998, said the country’s political and economic collapse had created a climate in which its children had become increasingly vulnerable.
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