Throughout the world, women and girls are increasingly being abused. The statistics are staggering. In the case of human trafficking, 70 percent of those trafficked into servitude are women and girls; 99 percent of those in sex slavery are women and girls; 250 million girls are forced into child marriage; and 1 in 3 women and girls experience physical and/or sexual violence in their lifetime.69 As Christians, as one writer has aptly remarked: The time for ministering to abused women and girls is now. The time to work for structural change that will improve the lives of women and girls is now.
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