This TED Talk features human rights activist Yvette Albertink Time, recorded live at TEDx Scholl

2017. It's 1996 in Uvira in eastern Congo. This is Bukeni. Militia commanders walk into his village,

knock on his neighbor's doors, and whisk their children away to training camps.

Bukeni borrows a video camera from a local wedding photographer.

He disguises as a journalist, and he walks into the camps

to negotiate the release of the children.

He filmed footage of the children being trained as soldiers.

Many of these children are under 15 years old, and that is a war crime.

But you don't have to go to Eastern Congo to find human rights abuses. In America, a country

with a rapidly aging population, experts estimate that one in 10 people over 60 will experience

abuse. It's a hidden epidemic. And most of that abuse actually happens at the hands of close caretakers or family.

This is Vicky.

Vicky put an iron gate on her bedroom door, and she became a prisoner, in fact, in her own house,

out of fear for her nephew who had taken over her home

as a drug den.

And this is Mary.

Mary picked up a video camera for the first time in her life when she was 65 years old,

and she asked Vicky and 99 other people who had experienced abuse to tell their stories on camera.

And I am Dutch.

So in the Netherlands, we are obsessed with the truth.

Now, when you're a child, that's a great thing.

Because you can basically get away with anything.

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