Topic: Child Abuse Crimes
New Zealander jailed for child sexual abuse in Fiji
April 6, 2002 ·
A Dunedin engineer has been jailed for ten years by a court in Fiji after being convicted on child sex abuse charges. Rex Cameron Macrae denied 8 charges of indecent assault on two girls and one of pornography. The Nadi Magistrates Court heard that Macrae indecently assaulted the girls aged 11 and 13 during a […]
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...PLAYING OUT THE FEAR FROM THEIR SOULS
November 13, 2001 ·
by Frank Mischo They were humiliated, used, and treated like animals. For many of these Philippine girls and boys, after doing ‘business” in shabby hotel beds and backstreets, life seemed to be practically at an end before it had really begun. They had seen too much, given too much, had too much fear. Some of […]
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...Suicide Risk for Abused Children
October 23, 2001 ·
A recently released report from Westmead Children’s Hospital has found that sexually abused children are up to 13 times more likely to attempt or commit suicide that other young people. Doctors spent 10 years assessing almost 200 sexually abused children aged 5-15 years in the largest study of its kind. The children were assessed at […]
Read More...Child Sex Tourism UPDATE
October 23, 2001 ·
An Australian citizen was arrested in Honduras in September accused of sexually abusing two 12 year old girls in the town of El Paraiso. Daniel John Stepping (35), who also uses the alias of David John Steppings and Daniel Frank arrived in Honduras in 1998.he is being held without bail in Honduras. An Australian has […]
Read More...CHILD SLAVERY: US Protocol aims to end Child Slavery in Cocoa Fields
October 1, 2001 ·
On 1 October, the international cocoa and chocolate industry signed a Protocol in the United States to eliminate child slavery in the chocolate industry. The Harkin-Engel Protocol set a four year timetable for all stages of the cocoa industry to comply with standards set by the International Labour Organization’s Convention against the worst forms of […]
Read More...D.R.C.: Rebels Agree To Demobilise Child Soldiers [news]
August 16, 2001 ·
UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy said yesterday from Uganda that rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo have given her agency assurances they will stop recruiting and begin demobilising child soldiers. Bellamy said that in addition to a demobilisation program already in place with the D.R.C. government, the new pledge shows that “the rebel […]
Read More...ILO Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention Comes into Force
July 12, 2001 ·
The ILO Convention on the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labour came into force November 19 with nearly 25% of the organisation’s 175 members participating as formal signatories.
Read More...'Sex Tourist Jailed for Abusing Girls of Seven'
June 19, 2001 ·
A “SEX tourist” who carried out attack on two very young girls in Cambodia was jailed for eight years yesterday.
Mark Towners, 52, a father of two, pleaded guilty at Maidstone Crown Court to 14 counts of abuse including sex with a girl under 13 after his wife told police of pictures she had found on his computer.
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