World Day of Fight Against Sexual Exploitation 2024 – March 4

Current Context: The World Day of Fight Against Sexual Exploitation is observed annually on March 4. This day aims to raise awareness and promote action against sexual exploitation.

• It serves to protect vulnerable individuals from sexual exploitation and provide support to victims of sexual abuse.
• The United Nations (UN) defines “sexual exploitation” as any actual or attempted abuse of vulnerability, differential power, or trust, for sexual purposes.
• This includes transactional sex, irrespective of the legal status of sex work in a given country.
• It also involves situations where sex is coerced, demanded, or manipulated through various means.
• Acts of sexual exploitation can include sexual assault, child sexual exploitation (CSE), abuse, demanding sex in any context or making sex a condition for assistance, forcing sex or someone to have sex with anyone, forcing a person to engage in prostitution or pornography, unwanted touching of a sexual nature, and refusing to use safe sex practices.

Question:

Q.1 When is the World Day of Fight Against Sexual Exploitation observed annually?
a. March 4
b. March 14
c. April 4
d. April 14