They exploit, abuse, lie, cheat and manipulate.
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 29 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually helpless as an increasing number of armed groups - described as "non-state actors" - continue to exploit, abuse and deliberately harm children in battle zones in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
A regulatory change that was interpreted as making entry to the US automatic for unaccompanied minors led to an exponential rise in numbers of children making for the US (and of those exploited, abused and killed on the way).
But it didn't take me long to see the truth that so many women in those places have been exploited, abused and often very badly hurt and let down, by families or in their relationships.
In Von Trier's film, it is Grace who arrives from elsewhere and provokes suspicion (she is, after all, fleeing a carload of gangsters) but who is eventually embraced - and then exploited, abused, enslaved and betrayed.
In 2013, Save The Children helped to rescue 21 million children from being exploited, abused, and neglected.
In other words, we do, think and say whatever we think it takes to try to protect ourselves from being dominated, exploited, abused or just plain hurt.
From 2003 to 2009, it is estimated that nationwide the Catholic Church spent over one billion dollars in settlements in cases of priests who sexually exploited, abused and raped thousands of young boys across the country.
When not at school, children from North Kivu are more at risk of being exploited, abused and even recruited".
When not in school, children from North Kivu are more at risk of being exploited, abused and even recruited".
"Wherever there is organised crime there is human suffering, and we must take a firm stand against those who would seek to exploit and abuse the vulnerable".
