{"id":3459,"date":"2017-11-07T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2017-11-07T06:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/?p=3459"},"modified":"2023-11-06T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T05:15:16","slug":"girls-bear-the-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/?p=3459","title":{"rendered":"Girls Bear the Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than one year after the election of a pro-democracy government, the\u00a0Women\u2019s League of Burma (WLB) has found that women and girls continue to\u00a0experience alarming rates of sexual violence in Burma at the hands of both State\u00a0actors and private citizens.1 According to police records, sexual abuse of young\u00a0children are the most common rape cases.2 Perpetrators may be neighbours,\u00a0teachers, monks, military personnel, police officers, village administrators and\u00a0family members; and survivors include girls as young as three years old. WLB\u00a0considers rape committed against minors to be especially heinous, yet these young \u00a0survivors continue to face challenges accessing justice and recovering from the\u00a0trauma of these experiences.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/GirlsBeartheShame_Eng.pdf\" class=\"sc-button sc-button-default\" target=\"_blank\"><span>Download English<\/span><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than one year after the election of a pro-democracy government, the\u00a0Women\u2019s League of Burma (WLB) has found that women and girls continue to\u00a0experience alarming rates of sexual violence in Burma at the hands of both State\u00a0actors and private citizens.1 According to police records, sexual abuse of young\u00a0children are the most common rape cases.2 Perpetrators<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/?p=3459\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3461,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-briefing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3459\/revisions\/4577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burmesewomensunion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}