Topic: Poverty
Germans, Americans and Cambodians sentenced in
March 12, 2007 · By The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Two Germans who worked as English teachers in Cambodia were among five people sentenced Friday to prison terms for sexually abusing four Vietnamese girls, a crime that one of the girl’s mothers was an accomplice to.
Read More...Sex slavery plagues Romania and Bulgaria
December 28, 2006 ·
BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Anca thought girls who spoke on television about being sold into sex slavery were paid to invent such stories to boost tv show ratings.
That was until she answered a friend’s invitation to join her in Germany and work as a dishwasher in a town near Hamburg.
Read More...City's poor stalked by fear
February 6, 2006 · , ITV NEWS
There is now a curfew from dusk till dawn. Most children go home. A few never return. ITV News correspondent Chris Rogers concludes his series of reports on the child prisoners of the Philippines. Davao is a city where people believe child criminals are being sent to graves in cemeteries instead of cells in prisons. […]
Read More...17 Million Latin American Children Work
April 18, 2003 ·
One out of five Latin American children, or more than 17 million, work in the unofficial economic sector and in rural areas, the International Labor Organization said yesterday. In conjunction with the Guatemalan non-governmental organisation Intervida and Save the Children, Norway the ILO said the countries with the highest rates of child labour in Latin […]
Read More...Poverty and Family Abuse Force Davao's Children to the streets
December 6, 2002 · By Carlos H. Conde PCIJ
DAVAO CITY – In 2000 and 2001, Davao City was adjudged the country’s “Most Child-Friendly City” by the National Council for the Welfare of Children, a government body under the Office of the President. This year, however, Davao failed to get the recognition because of what local officials here have dismissed as negative noises coming […]
Read More...Sport Players Enjoy Life on Backs of Child Workers
April 20, 2002 ·
Uluberia, West Bengal, India — The sheer exploitation of child labour is apparent when one visits Rajapur, a nondescript place in Uluberia, Howrah, where nearly one fifth of the children are employed to prepare shuttlecocks. They get meagre amounts in lieu of their hard work. Three to four new shuttlecock factories are coming up here […]
Read More...Nearly 5 Million Children Forced To Work In Zimbabwe
April 14, 2002 ·
Nearly 5 million children in Zimbabwe between the age of five and 17 years are being forced to work in several sectors of the economy against their will, reveals survey report. The National Child Labour Survey was carried out by the Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, the Central Statistics Office and the […]
Read More...FfD and children
January 1, 2002 ·
EVERY DAY this year, 30,000 children will lose the fight they are waging for life. Seven million children will perish before reaching their first birthday, and over ten million will die before the age of 5. Of those children winning their fight for survival, 113 million have no access to primary education, 60% of them girls. Millions more do not complete the five years of schooling needed to develop the basic literacy and math skills that would last them a lifetime.
Read More...Their Future, Our Future
November 6, 2001 ·
Putting children first when it comes to targeting poverty is the single most effective way to ensure the welfare of future generations. Children are increasingly a focus for national and international development attention. Throughout the world, political rhetoric emphasis the need to put children – and therefore, society’s future – first. Politicians regularly pose with […]
Read More...Child Sex Tourism in Cambodia
June 5, 2001 ·
There is growing interest in Cambodia as a vacation destination, but Cambodia also is a destination for thousands of men from around the world seeking sex with children. As other developing countries such as Thailand make progress in reducing sex tourism, opportunistic men simply travel to poorer, less developed neighboring countries. As one of the […]
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