Topic: Child Abuse
Child Sexual Exploitation and the Internet (September 2003)
September 7, 2003 · By Childwise, ECPAT
PERTH
A Perth man has recently been charged with molesting three girls he met in a webs chat room. Police allege that the 31 year old man met the three girls aged 14 and 15 via a chat room in February this year and later asked them to come to his home.
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...Ensuring Global Justice For Children Beyond Borders
November 2, 2002 ·
In August 1996 Canadian government delegates and representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGO) were invited to participate in the first World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm, Sweden. Canadian participants went into the conference with the belief that it was Canadian offenders committing acts against foreign children who should be of concern. What […]
Read More...PHILIPPINES: Bill on Domestic Child Workers
August 12, 2002 ·
Visayan Forum Foundation (VF) an organisation that works with child domestic workers is close to a breakthrough on a landmark bill. This bill could make the difference to hundreds of thousands of exploited child and adult domestic workers throughout the Philippines. Child domestic workers in particular toil far from home at the expense of their […]
Read More...AFRUCA Concerned over the Trafficking of African Children to the UK
August 1, 2002 ·
Anecdotal evidence suggests that increasingly African children are being brought into the UK as sources of cheap labour to work in the home and look after children, the Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (AFRUCA) shared. Children are brought in either by individuals or syndicates using false travel documents. They work long hours, are badly remunerated […]
Read More...UN ENVOY REPORTS NO EVIDENCE OF ‘CHILD SOLDIERING’ IN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA
April 14, 2002 ·
A top United Nations expert on the impact of armed conflict on children said that during a recent visit to Eritrea and Ethiopia he had seen no systematic use of child soldiers and found no evidence of child abuse in refugee camps. Olara Otunnu, Secretary-General’s Kofi Annan’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, said […]
Read More...Operation Candyman
April 6, 2002 ·
In yet another successful operation, the FBI recently announced that over 89 persons in over 20 US states have been charged in the first phase of a nation wide crackdown on the proliferation of child pornography on the Internet. During the course of this investigation known as Operation Candyman over 266 searches were conducted with […]
Read More...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...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...Bars are Front for Child Sex
June 6, 2001 ·
An Irish Columban missionary, who has bee nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to combat child prostitution in the Philippines, claim Irish bars could be involved in the sex tourism industry. Fr. Shay Cullen said most Filipino bars wer frequented by people offering the services of wome prostitutes and some used this […]
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