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Govt urged to take concrete steps for child rights F.P. Report
Islamabad :: Pakistan | 1 day ago
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Rehman urged the government to take concrete steps for ensuring child rights including access to quality education, better health facilities, and standard lifestyle...He stressed upon the need to end child labor without any further delay as it was very...
Tags: child rights, concrete steps, Pakistan, Islamabad, Human rights, Childhood, Children's rights, Social Issues, Child labour, Labor
Three child labourers found in posh apartment complex
Chennai :: India | 2 days ago
Credibility They should have been at school and on the playground and with their parents. Instead, the three children were working as domestic help in a posh apartment complex till their rescue during a joint raid by officials from Childline and the departments of...
Tags: District Child Welfare Committee, apartments complex, posh apartments, India, Chennai, Childhood, Child protection, Child labour, ChildLine, Labor, Law Crime
China executes child traffickers
Beijing :: China | 2 days ago
Credibility The Supreme People's Court said Hu Minghua, 55, was executed for kidnapping nine children between April 1999 and October 2005, the Xinhua news agency reported. He had also been convicted of transporting heroin in the southwest province of Yunnan. Five...
Tags: China, china executed, Hu Minghua, Xinhua News Agency, Su Binde, child trafficked, The Supreme People's Court, Beijing, Human rights abuses, Crimes, Law Crime, Human trafficking, Social Issues, Child abduction, Slavery, Crimes against humanity, Labor, Kidnapping, Media of the People's Republic of China, Child safety, Gang, Abuse, Child labour, Capitalism, Domestic violence, Smuggling, Luo
Thai officials rescue Burmese workers
Kantang :: Thailand | 4 days ago
Credibility On Monday, Thai officials from Bangkok and Trang province, led by Pol Lt Col Taweep Changtor, from Thai Immigration Police Office, raided a factory of the J.D.P Co. Ltd. a big dried fish producer and ice distributer in Kantang district of Trang Province.
Tags: Thailand, Burmese, human trafficked, trang provinces, officials rescued, Trang Province, Kantang, Crimes against humanity, Human rights abuses, Burma, Capitalism, Child labour, Crimes, Social Issues, Labor
Ann M Veneman: With universal standards, we can stop children suffering
London :: United Kingdom | 6 days ago
Credibility A historic decision was made on 20 November 1989, when world leaders adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child in the UN General Assembly. Since its inception 20 years ago, the Convention has become the most-ratified human rights treaty in history....
Tags: United Kingdom, London, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Child sexual abuse, Child labour, Sex crimes, UNICEF UK, UNICEF, Human rights, Children's rights
India urged to ban child marriages
Shanghai :: China | 6 days ago
Credibility India�s representative Dr Karin Hulshof said India must not accept child labour or tolerate child marriages and must allow children, especially girls, to go to school. She said each year, about one million babies die in the first month of their life,...
Tags: child marriages, India, China, Shanghai, Child labour, Malaysia, Sungkai, Child marriage, UNICEF, Childhood, Malaysia Nanban, Makkal Osai, Social Issues, Labor
Pakistan: Child Ragpickers Should Get Protection
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 6 days ago
Credibility Child labor is quite common and recognized as a serious problem in Pakistan. It is entirely difficult to present accurate figures of the child workforce; there is little doubt that child labor has assumed massive proportions in Pakistan. The actual total...
Tags: rag pickers, Pakistan, child labor, solid waste, child rag, Karachi, Karāchi, Labor rights, Rag, Debt bondage, Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Child labour, Childhood, Children's rights, Labor, Social Issues
South Asia: Child Slavery In Jaintia Hills
Dhāka :: Bangladesh | 6 days ago
Credibility Under the 6th Schedule of the Indian Constitution the tribal and native communities residing in Meghalaya have exclusive rights over their land which include for mining operations. While mining is legal, the methods used like bonded and child labour,...
Tags: child labourers, Indo-Bangladesh, Indo-Nepal, Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, India, living conditions, child trafficked, mining owners, mining operations, Bangladesh, Dhāka, Labor, Jaintia Hills district, Jaintia Kingdom, Debt bondage, Child labour, Human rights abuses, Slavery
Pakistan: Suspected State Agents
Karāchi :: Pakistan | 6 days ago
Credibility In response to this institutional indifference, family members of the missing have taken to camping outside the Supreme Court complex in protest. The court recently relented to one group, stationed there from 2 to 17 November, and assured them that the...
Tags: Pakistan, Karāchi, Human rights abuses, Kidnappings, Supreme Court of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, Independence of the judiciary, Constitutional law, Counter-terrorism, Crimes against humanity, Law Crime, Smuggling, Children's rights, Human trafficking, Laws regarding child sexual abuse, Child labour, Crimes, Social Issues
Unborn children for sale in S Korea
New York City :: NY :: USA | 7 days ago
Credibility The few cases that have surfaced have alarmed the government so much so that Al Jazeera has learned it has formed a special taskforce to bring human trafficking laws up to date. One of the challenges, Al Jazeera's Steve Chao reports, is how to give authorities...
Tags: Al Jazeera, unborn children, New York City, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Treaty, Social Issues, Politics, Human rights abuses, Smuggling, Human trafficking, Child labour, Crimes, Crimes against humanity
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