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Get the facts about child abuse and exploited children.

• An estimated 300 million children worldwide are subjected to violence, exploitation and abuse including the worst forms of child labor in communities, schools and institutions. 
 
• Children living in areas of extreme economic hardship and social disruption are at increased risk for abuse, violence and exploitation. 

• More than 2 million children died as a direct result of armed conflict in the 1990s. More than three times that number have been permanently disabled or seriously injured. And more than 1 million children have been orphaned or separated from their families.

• Worldwide, an estimated 40 million children under  age 15 suffer from violence, abuse and neglect.

• An estimated 1.2 million children — both boys and girls — are trafficked each year into exploitative work in agriculture, mining, factories, armed conflict or commercial sex work.  

Sources: www.unicef.org, www.ispcan.org, www.ilo.org