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Sexual Exploitation

Yes She Matters Emergency Response Team

Reference: UNHCR. (2023). What is Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment?https://www.unhcr.org/what-is-sexual-exploitation-abuse-and-harassment.html

Sexual abuse means the actual or threatened physical intrusion of a sexual nature, whether by force or
under unequal or coercive conditions. It includes sexual slavery, pornography, child abuse and sexual
assault.

Sexual exploitation is defined as an actual or attempted abuse of someone's position of vulnerability (such as, a person depending on you for survival, food rations, school, books, transport, or other services), differential power or trust, to obtain sexual favours, including but not only, by offering money or other social, economic, or political advantages. It also includes trafficking and prostitution. 

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