Last week in front of more than 100 academics, civil servants, politicians and experts from around the world, one woman - a high-level, experienced professional herself - ended her presentation by telling the story of how she was sexually abused as a child.
I, and everyone else in the hotel conference room, including
a delegation from the Government of Indonesia, was shocked to find out that one
of our peers had experienced this and admitted it in front of colleagues.
We were all child protection experts attending a three-day
Global Meeting on Violence against Children in Ezulwini, Swaziland. But we had
not thought that one among our number could have been a victim of violence
during childhood.
