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violence a simple noun according to the
English Oxford Dictionary violence is
the behavior that involves physical
force intended to hurt damage or kill
someone
however violence is much more than
hurting someone or just a simple knot in
a dictionary violence is an act of crime
and punishable by law and knowing this
many people still executed in its worst
possible forms now here’s the point no
matter how educated we are no matter how
advanced humankind is no matter in what
century we live the act of violence will
always be within us if we don’t
interfere now now first of all I would
like to tell you guys the three main
forms of violence first one is physical
violence and the most occurring one
physical violence is when someone
physically beats you whips you or tries
to hurt you emotional violence is when
someone verbally abuses you trying to
hurt your feelings and sexual abuse is
in this case when an adult is forcing a
minor to do sexual activities such as
sexual intercourse now why am i
specializing this presentation on
Cambodia
is it because it occurs here a lot no in
order for our society to make a change
we need to start small we need to start
making a change in our community right
here and right now and violence is not
something that occurs to a specific
group of people at a specific time and
it occurs everywhere in every single
culture under any possible circumstance
to anyone and everywhere now looking at
a study units have conducted in 2013
where they interviewed 2,300
six students among children 50% of them
said that they were physically abused 25
said that they were emotionally abused
and 5% said sexually now looking at a
scale at a global scale where the
children that have been interviewed all
ranged from the age of 13 to 24 and the
population cambodia of that specific age
group equals 1.7 million and if I’m
doing my math correctly those victims of
sexual abuse in Cambodia equal to 85,000
children annually now who are those
perpetrators that do these kind of
things for those people I myself
asked I spew students and most of them
well over 75% said that it’s usually
someone within the family it is someone
they trust and looking at units F’s
point of view it is true that usually
the perpetrators are someone within the
family within the community it could be
anyone they know but most importantly it
is someone usually that they trust why
because those perpetrators are using
their trust are using this specific
trait for their own benefit now
personally family for me means love and
security safety but for those thousands
of children in Cambodia it doesn’t mean
the same thing they’re scared of their
everyday life of the people that
surround them and according to the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
every single human being has the right
to a life to safety and to liberty now
in the same survey they conducted they
asked those same people how do you feel
about violence what has been going
through your mind and their responses
were devastating they were heartbreaking
they said that they’re ashamed of the
things that happened to them
and they’re embarrassed they are scared
that their family and their friends
might not want to be there anymore for
them because of what happened to them
now do they think this because we are we
don’t know what to do next or because
they think that we have a selfish and
judgmental society I myself believe that
both of these points are true yes every
single human being has their own opinion
and every single human being puts
themselves first but also having asked
the same question to an expert dr. Maya
who’s working at the National Hospital
in phenom penh she said that we as a
society as a community are not educated
enough about this topic and therefore we
can’t really approach this there in the
right way now I again talked not talk
but I conducted the same survey and here
the same thing is what would you do if
you found out that your friend suffers
under violence attacks now 60% of the is
PP students said they would do nothing
nothing now here’s the point do they
mean nothing by I don’t know what to do
or is it nothing I am scared and I don’t
I just can’t handle it now this goes
back to the point that the expert dr.
Maya said we are not educated enough
about this topic we don’t know how to
approach it the right way the people the
victims have to willingly open up to us
and in order to do this they need to
feel loved and safe now the statement
what children see they do yes if my math
teacher tells me how to solve an
equation I would follow it I would
follow his steps I would follow his
method and this is no different in this
topic the perpetrators usually
themselves have had some sort of
violence or abusive backgrounds usually
they themselves
went through the same process the same
vicious cycle it’s every single thing we
do every single action we take always
has a reason behind it and this is no
difference in this topic let’s say I
learn how to ride a bicycle at the age
of six in my childhood and when I’m 72
of course I will still know how to ride
a bicycle maybe not that well but still
and the same thing applies to share what
you see and what you do in your
childhood was your family what’s your
community what your culture shows you
you will most obviously or most you will
execute it in your adulthood in an adult
life too now what do we have to do now
violence most obviously leaves visible
marks bruises and scars that will maybe
fade maybe not but there are also
invisible traits such as depression
anxiety suicidal thoughts and even a
tense there are all consequences of this
now the main factor of these of these
things is that they do not feel the
sense of community and they do not they
can’t really open up to us and this
leads to post-traumatic trauma it
destroys their future and most
importantly it affects their academics
and their social life now
since this is such a huge topic NGOs and
organizations have thought about how to
prevent this came up with methods and
strategies but one thing they all have
in common is they all want and need to
change the attitudes of both the victim
the perpetrator but most importantly
this society’s in order for both of them
the perpetrator and the victim to open
up to us they need to feel loved they
need to feel the sense of community now
there are many different types of people
there are visual learners and audio
visual learners and when opening up to
someone it’s not that much different
some people prefer face-to-face talks
but some of them don’t
therefore NGOs and organizations have
come up with another idea another
strategy in order to help them child
helpline Cambodia for example allows
victims to call them and they talk
through everything on a phone with an
expert now I’m not gonna lie
violence is something that we need to
face right now in order for us to create
a hopeful future for everyone the scars
that you will get that the victims get
during those during that time period
where they suffer and of violence they
will soon fade but the memories they
will never faint they will haunt them
like a shadow and they can’t let it go
because it’s within them in order for us
to create a hopeful future for everyone
silence about this topic needs to be
broken attitudes of people needs to be
changed in order for the Cambodian kids
to live the life they deserve and give
them the life they deserve thank you
[Applause]
[Applause]
violence a simple noun according to the
English Oxford Dictionary violence is
the behavior that involves physical
force intended to hurt damage or kill
someone
however violence is much more than
hurting someone or just a simple knot in
a dictionary violence is an act of crime
and punishable by law and knowing this
many people still executed in its worst
possible forms now here’s the point no
matter how educated we are no matter how
advanced humankind is no matter in what
century we live the act of violence will
always be within us if we don’t
interfere now now first of all I would
like to tell you guys the three main
forms of violence first one is physical
violence and the most occurring one
physical violence is when someone
physically beats you whips you or tries
to hurt you emotional violence is when
someone verbally abuses you trying to
hurt your feelings and sexual abuse is
in this case when an adult is forcing a
minor to do sexual activities such as
sexual intercourse now why am i
specializing this presentation on
Cambodia
is it because it occurs here a lot no in
order for our society to make a change
we need to start small we need to start
making a change in our community right
here and right now and violence is not
something that occurs to a specific
group of people at a specific time and
it occurs everywhere in every single
culture under any possible circumstance
to anyone and everywhere now looking at
a study units have conducted in 2013
where they interviewed 2,300
six students among children 50% of them
said that they were physically abused 25
said that they were emotionally abused
and 5% said sexually now looking at a
scale at a global scale where the
children that have been interviewed all
ranged from the age of 13 to 24 and the
population cambodia of that specific age
group equals 1.7 million and if I’m
doing my math correctly those victims of
sexual abuse in Cambodia equal to 85,000
children annually now who are those
perpetrators that do these kind of
things for those people I myself
asked I spew students and most of them
well over 75% said that it’s usually
someone within the family it is someone
they trust and looking at units F’s
point of view it is true that usually
the perpetrators are someone within the
family within the community it could be
anyone they know but most importantly it
is someone usually that they trust why
because those perpetrators are using
their trust are using this specific
trait for their own benefit now
personally family for me means love and
security safety but for those thousands
of children in Cambodia it doesn’t mean
the same thing they’re scared of their
everyday life of the people that
surround them and according to the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
every single human being has the right
to a life to safety and to liberty now
in the same survey they conducted they
asked those same people how do you feel
about violence what has been going
through your mind and their responses
were devastating they were heartbreaking
they said that they’re ashamed of the
things that happened to them
and they’re embarrassed they are scared
that their family and their friends
might not want to be there anymore for
them because of what happened to them
now do they think this because we are we
don’t know what to do next or because
they think that we have a selfish and
judgmental society I myself believe that
both of these points are true yes every
single human being has their own opinion
and every single human being puts
themselves first but also having asked
the same question to an expert dr. Maya
who’s working at the National Hospital
in phenom penh she said that we as a
society as a community are not educated
enough about this topic and therefore we
can’t really approach this there in the
right way now I again talked not talk
but I conducted the same survey and here
the same thing is what would you do if
you found out that your friend suffers
under violence attacks now 60% of the is
PP students said they would do nothing
nothing now here’s the point do they
mean nothing by I don’t know what to do
or is it nothing I am scared and I don’t
I just can’t handle it now this goes
back to the point that the expert dr.
Maya said we are not educated enough
about this topic we don’t know how to
approach it the right way the people the
victims have to willingly open up to us
and in order to do this they need to
feel loved and safe now the statement
what children see they do yes if my math
teacher tells me how to solve an
equation I would follow it I would
follow his steps I would follow his
method and this is no different in this
topic the perpetrators usually
themselves have had some sort of
violence or abusive backgrounds usually
they themselves
went through the same process the same
vicious cycle it’s every single thing we
do every single action we take always
has a reason behind it and this is no
difference in this topic let’s say I
learn how to ride a bicycle at the age
of six in my childhood and when I’m 72
of course I will still know how to ride
a bicycle maybe not that well but still
and the same thing applies to share what
you see and what you do in your
childhood was your family what’s your
community what your culture shows you
you will most obviously or most you will
execute it in your adulthood in an adult
life too now what do we have to do now
violence most obviously leaves visible
marks bruises and scars that will maybe
fade maybe not but there are also
invisible traits such as depression
anxiety suicidal thoughts and even a
tense there are all consequences of this
now the main factor of these of these
things is that they do not feel the
sense of community and they do not they
can’t really open up to us and this
leads to post-traumatic trauma it
destroys their future and most
importantly it affects their academics
and their social life now
since this is such a huge topic NGOs and
organizations have thought about how to
prevent this came up with methods and
strategies but one thing they all have
in common is they all want and need to
change the attitudes of both the victim
the perpetrator but most importantly
this society’s in order for both of them
the perpetrator and the victim to open
up to us they need to feel loved they
need to feel the sense of community now
there are many different types of people
there are visual learners and audio
visual learners and when opening up to
someone it’s not that much different
some people prefer face-to-face talks
but some of them don’t
therefore NGOs and organizations have
come up with another idea another
strategy in order to help them child
helpline Cambodia for example allows
victims to call them and they talk
through everything on a phone with an
expert now I’m not gonna lie
violence is something that we need to
face right now in order for us to create
a hopeful future for everyone the scars
that you will get that the victims get
during those during that time period
where they suffer and of violence they
will soon fade but the memories they
will never faint they will haunt them
like a shadow and they can’t let it go
because it’s within them in order for us
to create a hopeful future for everyone
silence about this topic needs to be
broken attitudes of people needs to be
changed in order for the Cambodian kids
to live the life they deserve and give
them the life they deserve thank you
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