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Sixteen-year-old Natasha Boropi speaks about the effects of polygamous marriage and alcohol abuse on children at the launch of UNICEF’s ‘End Violence against Children’ campaign in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in June 2014.
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Cost of child maltreatment in Asia-Pacific tops $200 billion annually, reports UNICEF

2 June 2015
Child abuse and violence is costing countries in East Asia and the Pacific around $209 billion a year, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today in the first costing of child maltreatment in the region, revealing that “inaction about violence results in serious economic costs to countries and communities.”