Topic: Child Abuse Crimes
Advances In Children's Rights Attributed To 1989 Un Convention On The Rights Of The Child First Impact Study Of Its Kind Analyzes Outcomes Of Convention
May 30, 2000 ·
(WASHINGTON, DC) – A first-of-its kind impact study has found that the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has led to exciting advances in children’s rights. This news comes as the international community attends the first UN Preparatory Committee meeting for the 2001 World Summit on Children today.
Read More...Cheap Guns Make Kids Warriors: Study
May 30, 2000 ·
United Nations: Cheap, light weapons are helping turn children into vicious warriors in many countries, researchers said in a report released recently at the United Nations. More than 300,000 people under the age of 18 are fighting as soldiers in 34 conflicts, many of them wielding automatic weapons, according to the study commissioned by the […]
Read More...Child Labor not a Matter of Choice in East Visayas
May 25, 2000 ·
ALLAN, at 19 years old, has the withered face of a man beyond his age . It was the result of years spent at the port of Tacloban City. For fourteen years now, he has been working as a dockhand in the city’s port area. He was barely 5 years old when he was exposed to such a kind of work.
Read More...US Lawmakers Vote in Crackdown on International Sex Traff'icking
May 24, 2000 ·
WASHINGTON DC – Sordid tales of women and children tricked or forced into sexual slavery echoed in the United States House chamber last week as lawmakers approved a bill aimed at cracking down on global sex trafficking.
Read More...Young Child Soldiers Used as Cannon Fodder in Asia
May 24, 2000 ·
BANGKOK- Young boys and girls are increasingly being used by Asian militaries and insurgent groups as cannon fodder, according to the firstever survey on the use of child soldiers in Asia
Read More...Boy, 15, Draws Jail Term for Raping Girl, 5
May 19, 2000 ·
DAGUPAN CITY-After almost two months of marathon hearings, a judge here ordered a 15-year-old boy to suffer in jail for at least two years when he reaches 18 years old for raping a 5-year-old girl in November last year.
Read More...Fighting The Child Sex Trade
May 8, 2000 ·
OLONGAPO, PHILIPPINES – Pia Agustin Corvera became a prostitute at the age of 9. An aunt who raised her in a Manila slum rented her to foreign men with Pia receiving 120 pesos–$3–for each encounter. After three years, according to a social worker’s report, she was sold to a visiting German pedophile. Today, the morose 16-year-old with a ravaged psyche and an uneasy smile has found refuge here in a therapeutic community for child victims of sexual abuse run by a 57-year-old Irish priest, the Rev. Shay Cullen.
Read More...China Wakes to Horror of Human Trafficking
May 3, 2000 ·
BEIJING -China has launched a massive police operation against trafficking in women and children, pulling back the curtain on a problem it once told its people and the world it had eradicated on the 1950s.
Read More...Court Jails Seven for Sex Crimes
May 1, 2000 ·
Cuba: A court in eastern Cuba has sentenced five Cuban men and two women to jail terms of between three and 30 years for sex offenses involving schoolgirls.
The seven were convicted by the court in Camaguey province of repeated crimes of “corruption of minors” and procuring. They were accused of forcing a group of secondary school girls to perform sex acts, using promises of money, and in some cases, threats of physical force.
Read More...Mayor in trouble for Saying Kids Enjoy
April 17, 2000 ·
DUMAGUETE CITY-He probably just wanted to earn “pogi points” before media, but Mayor Edsel Enardecido of Ayungon town in Negros Oriental Saturday found out too late that he had instead put his foot in his mouth.
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