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Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) as a Gender Inequality Practice: Applying Sustainable Development Goals

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Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a persisting worldwide phenomenon that has been studied across scholarships and laws enacted to address it. The 2016 sustainable development goals offer a glimpse of hope of simultaneously ending gender inequality and CSA by the year 2030. However, in Botswana, the target of eliminating CSA is far from being attained amidst the gender elements that heighten children’s vulnerability to CSA. Essentially the goal to end CSA could be attained by influencing the masculine space that is at the centre of perpetration of CSA. Further research is required to explore further these gender elements in order to enhance children’s safety and for sustainable elimination of CSA.

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    Botho is derived from the word motho (human being) which denotes human and morality. Botho means an individual is connected to other people. Simply put, no man is an island.

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    Se se mo ntung, ga se tswele ko ntle” which loosely translated to imply what happens in the family stays in the family

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    Susu ilela suswana, gore suswana a tle a go ilele means, adults should respect children so that children could also respect them.

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Ramabu, N.M. (2020). Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) as a Gender Inequality Practice: Applying Sustainable Development Goals. In: Keitumetse, S.O., Hens, L., Norris, D. (eds) Sustainability in Developing Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48351-7_9

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