Browsing issue: Children's rights

Including results for: Juvenile justice, Child soldiers, Child labor, Child pornography, Child prostitution, Human trafficking

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Child Soldiers: Children in the Ranks

Today, child soldiers are fighting in at least 17 countries around the world. Boys and girls alike are forced into combat, exploited for their labor, and subjected to unspeakable violence....

Africa, Asia

Armed conflict, Child soldiers, Children's rights

Witnessed: 214 times

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Uganda - Child Soldiers story

Janet's Story - Janet was abducted into the Lords Resistance Army when she was nine years old where she was forced to marry a commander 20 years her senior....

Uganda

Child soldiers, Mass killings, Rape and sexual abuse

Witnessed: 239 times

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Local demand fuels Cambodian child prostitution

The problem of child prostitution in Cambodia is often depicted as an industry which serves predatory foreign tourists.

Cambodia

Child prostitution, HIV-AIDS, Rape and sexual abuse

Witnessed: 359 times

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Human trafficking, child labor and exploitation in India and Cambodia

This promotional video showcases the problems of human trafficking and child labor in India and Cambodia and shows how Lotus Outreach International is working to combat them.

Cambodia, India

Children's rights, Human trafficking, Labor

Witnessed: 310 times

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Fighting Erupts in Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu

MSF is working to help those who have fled displaced persons camps in North Kivu as violence between the Congolese Army and rebel groups continues to intensify....

Child soldiers, Humanitarian, War crimes

Witnessed: 222 times

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Insecurity increases in Eastern DRC

This video, produced by WITNESS partner Ajedi-Ka, talks about the resurgence of violence in the Eastern provinces of the DRC from January 2008 on....

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Child soldiers, Refugees, War crimes

Witnessed: 236 times

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Poverty in Haiti spawns child slavery

Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere and the poverty has fuelled restavek, a system of domestic servitude of hundreds of thousands of children that is tantamount to modern-d...

Haiti

Child labor, Poverty, Slavery & forced labor

Witnessed: 286 times

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Poverty forces Afghan children into smuggling

Poverty in Afghanistan is driving some families to take desperate measures.

They are sending boys as young as five across the border into Pakistan, to buy cheap flour, and smuggle it back home.

Afghanistan, Pakistan

Child labor, Food & health & development, Poverty

Witnessed: 169 times

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Hunger and child labour on the rise in Burma

A year on from the Saffron revolution, the people of a once-prosperous nation are still mired in poverty.

According to the United Nations, the average daily pay in Myanmar is $0.67.

Burma

Child labor, Freedom of opinion & expression, Poverty

Witnessed: 337 times

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