Fight child sexual exploitation: Banderas
February 5th, 2012 - 12:04 pm ICT by IANSCancun (Mexico), Feb 5 (IANS/EFE) Spanish actor and producer Antonio Banderas wants everyone to join the fight against child sexual exploitation, something that, he said, affects not only underdeveloped nations but everyone.
“We have to take this very seriously and root it out,” the film star said Friday.
Banderas made the call during the presentation of the book “Libro de Suenos” (Book of Dreams), prepared by the humanitarian organization Unicef and the Iberostar Group to make parents and their children understand the dangers and degradation of child sexual exploitation.
He spoke about the importance of raising awareness to combat child sexual exploitation and said that in recent years it has become “a problem affecting many nations”.
“Many of us associate the scourge with a single country, I’m not going to say which one but it’s in all our minds, an Asian country, but when we do that we’re making a little exercise in hypocrisy because we know that basically that is going on in many countries, including some that are totally developed,” he said.
–IANS/EFE
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