Topic: UNICEF
REGION TO ESTABLISH CHILD TRAFFICKING LEGISLATION IN 2004
April 14, 2002 ·
Regional governments and partner organisations in West Africa agreed to ratify a convention against child trafficking in 2004. The agreement was reached after a three-day meeting on cross-border trafficking in Gabon’s capital, Libreville. Participants discussed a blueprint of the proposed regional agreement that highlighted prevention, identification, repatriation and reintegration of child victims into home countries […]
Read More...DANGERS FACING GIRL CHILDREN ARE DEEP AND INSIDIOUS, PANEL IS TOLD
February 10, 2001 ·
Their profile may be rising in international aid programs, but girls still have less chance than boys of surviving at birth, are less likely to
complete school, are more likely to toil inside and outside their own households, and are more likely to experience sexual exploitation and
abuse.
RALLY TO THE CALL SAY UNICEF AND NGOs
February 10, 2001 ·
A 10-point ‘Rallying Call for the Global Movement for Children’ is to be unveiled by UNICEF and some of its NGO partners at the end of this week’s PrepCom.
Read More...Shift in Sex Tourism
March 4, 2000 ·
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The sexual exploitation of girls and boys, largely by men from the United States, has reached alarming proportions in Central America, according to children’s rights advocates who say the region is now a priority in their struggle against child prostitution and pornography.
Read More...Unicef Child Sex Trafficking Must End
January 23, 2000 ·
NATIONS must fight the greed and brutal disregard for human rights which underpin the worldwide trafficking in children and women, most often for sexual exploitation, according to United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Executive Director Carol Bellamy.
Read More...Serving Affluent Businessmen and Visitors
September 1, 1999 ·
With regard to China, the phenomenon of trafficking is a growing concern. In a UNICEFbacked situation analysis of children and women in China in 1992, it was noted that “occasional abduction of womenandchildrenhasbeenreported to still occur in some rural areas, prompting widespread education against”the practice and special legislation with severe punishment of individuals who abduct or kidnap women or children.”
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