Topic: Child Rights
Sexual Abuse, Sexual Exploitation, and the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Indonesia
January 1, 2001 ·
This is an extract of a report prepared for Indonesia, which commissioned a study on the situation of the children in especially difficult circumstances covering the issue of child labour, street children and sexually exploited children. The Indonesian version of this report was published soon. Mohamman farid, the author of this report has given his consent to this extracted version.
Read More...South African Child Sex Industry Growing Rapidly
December 7, 2000 ·
Cape Town, South Africa – Child sex was a lucrative market in Gauteng and the Western Cape, with children as young as four-years-old being sold into the international racket, Molo Songololo, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) said. The research report was undertaken by the Cape Town-based NGO dealing with children’s issues, and is endorsed by the […]
Read More...Cambodia Cracks Down on Offenders
December 4, 2000 ·
On November 22 2000, Jon Keeler was sentenced to three years imprisonment in a Cambodian prison. British born Keeler, a Director of a Phnom Penh English school, had been caught taken pornographic films of young girls in a public park. On sentencing, Keeler shouted abuse, saying he had paid the judge and prosecutor for his […]
Read More...Congress Urged to Pass Law Banning Kids from Smoking
June 9, 2000 ·
ROXAS CITY-The Capiz – provincial board passed a resolution urging the House of Representatives to enact measures that would prohibit cigarette use among children as well as regulate the sale and promotion of tobacco products in the country.
Read More...Advances In Children's Rights Attributed To 1989 Un Convention On The Rights Of The Child First Impact Study Of Its Kind Analyzes Outcomes Of Convention
May 30, 2000 ·
(WASHINGTON, DC) – A first-of-its kind impact study has found that the 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has led to exciting advances in children’s rights. This news comes as the international community attends the first UN Preparatory Committee meeting for the 2001 World Summit on Children today.
Read More...Fighting The Child Sex Trade
May 8, 2000 ·
OLONGAPO, PHILIPPINES – Pia Agustin Corvera became a prostitute at the age of 9. An aunt who raised her in a Manila slum rented her to foreign men with Pia receiving 120 pesos–$3–for each encounter. After three years, according to a social worker’s report, she was sold to a visiting German pedophile. Today, the morose 16-year-old with a ravaged psyche and an uneasy smile has found refuge here in a therapeutic community for child victims of sexual abuse run by a 57-year-old Irish priest, the Rev. Shay Cullen.
Read More...China Wakes to Horror of Human Trafficking
May 3, 2000 ·
BEIJING -China has launched a massive police operation against trafficking in women and children, pulling back the curtain on a problem it once told its people and the world it had eradicated on the 1950s.
Read More...Stopping sex-slave trade in the global economy
April 2, 2000 ·
Official U.S. estimates are that 2 million people, including 500,000 children, are being forced into prostitution.
A silent but horrific practice degrading women and children is, proliferating around the world. Known as sexual trafficking, it involves a systematic effort to kidnap females, many of whom are preteens, into forced prostitution.
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...Now, 'only' 4 Pupils Will Share Books
January 19, 2000 ·
EDUCATION officials call this good news, but for millions of public elementary pupils and high-school students, sharing a book with four classmates instead of eight is still a miserable situation.
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