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This advocacy paper contributes to dialogues on sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment (SEAH) that see, and propose practice that recognize, commonalities. They are both human rights violations based on gender discrimination, intersecting with all forms of social inequalities, and are part of a continuum of violence (mainly) against women and girls and almost always committed by men. They are both expressions of and contributors to structural power inequalities that render the targeted persons less able, if at all, than perpetrators to control the sexual engagement. Starting from the experiences of survivors – as a victim-centred approach requires - also recognises that the same behaviors are involved across SEAH. Organisations in the development and humanitarian sectors, including the United Nations and peacekeeping missions, have tended to address these two forms of violence as separate and independent, often flowing into distinct procedural and policy domains. This publication advocates rethinking of the frameworks established to address SEAH in order more fully to reflect linkages between them. Recognising and uprooting the gendered, racialised and all power inequalities that shape them is necessary for their elimination.

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