By IRNA, Tehran : Eleven new countries have added their names to a growing United Nations-backed list of states that have pledged to halt child recruitment, …
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According to UNICEF, every year around 1,000 Mozambican women and children are sold to brothels in South Africa and other countries. Thousands of girls from Ethiopia are trafficked to the Middle East to work as domestic servants.
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Irrespective of how Thomas Lubanga’s trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) concludes, it has indisputably helped to catapult into the global limelight the phenomenon and plight of child soldiers.
By taking former child soldiers to The Hague to recount how they were conscripted, the grueling training they endured, the battles they fought, and how they saw their fellow children kill and get killed in battle, the trial has given the world a vivid picture of the horrors of using child soldiers.
Besides the ten former child soldiers who testified, there were also expert witnesses that gave testimony on the use of child soldiers at the invitation of judges and prosecutors. The high levels of post-traumatic stress disorder among former child soldiers, why many armed groups took to using underage fighters, and the reason some families in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) shunned their children who abandoned the military were some of the issues experts described to the court.
Friday 20 November marks the 20th anniversary of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), a set of rights that every child under the age of 18 …
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In addition, the country also ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990. Namibia signed the African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of …
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Child labor is illegal in Kenya, but police rarely target business owners for hiring children in the slums. Community activists say the police get a cut of the thriving trade. A senior police officer, who wouldn't give his name, …
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In addition to charges or corruption and general mismanagement in the preparations for the Games, there were also reported incidents of child and forced labor being used in various construction projects for the events. …
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His hours were cut because of a change in federal child labor laws that prohibit teens from operating patient lifts. As a result, nursing homes like St. …
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