Clíona Saidléar: Measuring the silence around sexual violence
Early childhood experience of not being heard or believed not only fails the child but can also lead to long silences and vulnerabilities into adulthood which can then be exploited further by perpetrators.
It’s in the silence about sexual violence that perpetrators exert their power, feeding a stigma that delays many survivors from speaking out, or being heard, for decades.
2023 has been a key year for breaking that silence. And we’ve been doing that with an unconventional tool: data.
