Topic: Child Labour
UN, Human Rights Groups hail Agreement on Child Soldiers
January 23, 2000 ·
UNITED NATIONS-An international,agreement aimed at ending the use of child soldiers is being hailed as a major achievement after six years of wrangling over the details.
Read More...15 'Slave' Workers Rescued in Raid
January 23, 2000 ·
SAN FERNANDO CITY — Fifteen workers including eight minors, were rescued from nearly two months of slave labor in a rice milling warehouse in Tayug, Pangasinan, during a raid by a government team Tuesday.
Read More...Child Abuse in R.P: Telling it like it is
January 20, 2000 ·
YEAR in and year out, media reports in the broadsheets, on sexual abuse of children in the, Philippines often increase in the number of assailants’ relationship with the victims.
Read More...Moving forward at the start of the new millennium
January 1, 2000 ·
The beginning of this new millennium is a time of great hope for working children. The child labour issue has gained the attention of the world’s leaders and millions of the world’s citizens.
Read More...Coersion the Key Element Behind Trafficking
September 1, 1999 ·
Internationally, there is no consensus on the term “trafficking”. In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly came near to a comprehensive definition in its stipulation that “trafficking” is the “illicit and clandestine movement of persons across national and international borders, largely from developing countries and some countries with economies in transition, with the end goal of forcing women and girl children into sexually or economically oppressive and exploitative situations for the profit of recruiters, traffickers, crime syndicates, as well as other illegal activities related to trafficking, such as forced domestic labour, false marriages, clandestine employment and false adoption.”
Read More...Children Who Are the Victims of Trafficking
September 1, 1999 ·
The most disadvantaged regions of the country, where poverty, unemployment, underemployment, landlessness and armed conflict combine to deny many children and their families the prospect of a secure future, are natural target areas for unscrupulous recruitment agencies.
Read More...ILO adopts Convention banning worst forms of child labour
May 5, 1999 ·
Geneva- International Labour Organisation (ILO) member States on June 17, 99 took a decisive step towards liberating scores of millions of children from slavery and debt bondage, prostitution and pornography, dangerous work and forcible recruitment for armed conflict.
Read More...Children as Sex Workers in India
May 1, 1999 ·
New Delhi: A study on “Child prostitution in India” by the Centre Concern for Child Labour (CCL), a non-governmental Organisation says thirty percent of sex workers are children, numbering between 270, 000 and 400,000.
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