unthinkable

You can bet that right at this moment, as you read this, somebody is being gang-raped, immobilized, electrocuted or beaten for displeasing an armed authority. Probably more than one somebody.
Similarly, right at this moment, a minor child is being beaten, abducted, sold or bullied for the sexual pleasure of an adult, or the accompanying profit. Probably more than one child.
We hate thinking about these things. We hate the idea of them happening to us or somebody we love. We hate the thought that we might be forced to witness an innocent adult or child forced into agony.
As the mind works, picturing and witnessing are not all that far apart.
I think this makes it more difficult for us to keep charities that deal with such things in mind. Acknowledging, picturing, witnessing the terrible - these are more disturbing than feeding, medicating, legislating.
I try to counter this by making The Center for the Victims of Torture and the Somaly Mam Foundation my primary charities. The links in this paragraph go right to donation pages at these sites - you don't have to read details about their work unless you want to.
The CVT operates healing centers in Minneapolis and St. Paul, as well as in Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Jordan. The Somaly Mam Foundation rescues child sex slaves in Cambodia, and offers healing, education and possibilities for the future to them. Somaly Mam herself was sold into servitude and prostitution as a child.
I feel I offer a little healing myself, knowing that someone who has been through hell might feel a little better today because of my contribution, or contemplating a silk bracelet woven by a rescued child.