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Philippines- a main source of human trafficking
September 3, 2003 ·
The United States has identified the Philippines as a main source and transit of human trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation. According to the US State Department’s Trafficking In Persons Report the Philippines was a source, transit and to a lesser extent destination country for persons trafficked for labour and sexual exploitation. The report cited […]
Read More...Extradition Hearing
September 2, 2003 ·
Clint Rex Betteridge, will face an extradition hearing on 26th September 2003. Betteridge was convicted in Absentia in Cambodia on child sex charges after he fled the country with a replacement passport. The Cambodian Government is seeking Betteridge’s return to Cambodia to serve the ten year sentence handed down by the Cambodian Court. Fellow Australian […]
Read More...Aid Worker Jailed for Child Sex
September 1, 2003 ·
A British former aid worker has been jailed for 9 years by an Ethiopian court for sexually abusing children in development/aid programs. David Allen, 62, was found guilty and sentenced by the High Court in Addis Ababa in August 2003. Allen was jailed for crimes that took place in 1995 when he ran an orphanage […]
Read More...ROMANIA Ratifies International Convention Banning Child Labour
July 12, 2003 ·
Romania has ratified the ILO Convention on Worst Forms of Child Labour. The ILO programme introduced in Romania for the first time enjoys financial support from the US administration (600,000 USD) and will span two years.
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...ASIA: young people facing unprecedented health risks from drug-taking and HIV/AIDS
April 16, 2003 ·
Children and young people in Asia are facing unprecedented health risks from HIV/AIDS and other diseases due to the rapid spread of amphetamine-type drug abuse, UNICEF warned today. Speaking at the International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm, Robert Bennoun, UNICEF Regional Advisor on HIV/AIDS, highlighted an urgent need for more effective and […]
Read More...Two Minor Boys on the road of Execution in PAKISTAN
April 4, 2003 ·
Two minor boys, Muhammad Rafique and Sohail Fida are on death row having been awarded capital punishment by a court in the Swat district of Pakistan. Though capital punishment is abolished in Pakistan, under Pakistan’s Juvenile Justice System Ordinance 2002, these two minor boys do not fall under the jurisdiction of the ordinance and are […]
Read More...The Thriving Trade in Baby Girls Continues Unstopped in BEIJING
April 4, 2003 ·
28 little girls found by police on a bus enroute to rural areas in Beijing in an attempt to satisfy Chinese families seeking a daughter, a servant or a future bride for their son. None older than three months, packed in nylon tote bags aboard a long distance bus, is a striking a tragic example […]
Read More...Ecpat: Child Sex Abuse And Social Customs [Study]
January 30, 2003 ·
A recent report released by the Bangkok-based international child protection campaign group, ECPAT (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes), found that socially accepted customs are being used to shelter child sexual abuse in various countries. The report highlights that though child marriages are unlawful in many countries, they are […]
Read More...The Younger The Better: 19,250 Children Trapped In Cambodia's Sex Industry
January 30, 2003 ·
A UNICEF survey concluded that 35 percent of Cambodia’s 55,000 prostitutes are children under the age of 16. The oldest girls in the sex industry today are teenagers, says Sao Chhoeurth, who works with AFESIP, a French NGO that rescues and rehabilitates child prostitutes. With recent media attention on pedophiles such as Gary Glitter in […]
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