Article 36: Other forms of exploitation

UN: Children's rights and the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
2/Dec/2015 Publication
Ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, this new report calls on the UN to address the rights of children with disabilities with the same consistency and rigour as adults’ rights. 
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The Year in Children's Rights: CRIN's 2014-15 annual report
6/Oct/2015 Publication
CRIN’s annual report wastes no time regurgitating blurb about who we are and what we do. Instead, we present a global picture of children’s rights, wrapping up the past year’s new or persisting issues around the world. 
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TRAITE DES ENFANTS : Nestlé, Mars et Hershey’s visés par une plainte collective
2/Oct/2015 News
Les groupes Nestlé, Hershey’s et Mars sont visés par trois plaintes collectives (class actions) déposées à la fin de septembre en Californie. Motif : la traite et le travail forcé des enfants dans les plantations de Côte d’Ivoire.
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UNITED STATES: Department of Labor sues Mormon sect $1.9m for oppressive child labour practices
11/Sep/2015 News
A multi-year investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor revealed that the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints employed young children illegally to harvest pecans.  
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UN: Children's rights and the Human Rights Committee
28/Aug/2015 Publication
While civil and political rights are recognised specifically for children in the CRC, the review by the Human Rights...
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SENEGAL: First steps taken to eradicate forced child begging in Quranic schools
7/Aug/2015 Publication
A committee of African human rights experts agreed that Senegal must work to stop children in Quranic schools being forced to beg for food and money after two postgraduate students compiled a complaint on behalf of the exploited children.
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FOOT : Trafic de mineurs africains vers le Laos
23/Jul/2015 News
Des jeunes footballeurs africains de 14 ans ont été victimes de trafic vers le Laos où  ils vivaient des conditions « déplorables et inquiétantes ». L'Ong Culture Foot Solidaire estime que 15 000  joueurs adolescents sont emmenés hors d'Afrique de l'Ouest chaque année.
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TRAFFICKING: Young African footballers 'trafficked' to Laos
21/Jul/2015 News
Boys from West Africa as young as 14 have been 'trafficked' to an unregistered football academy in Laos, where they are given no salary and made to sleep in 'deplorable' accommodation. One NGO, Culture Foot Solidaire, estimates that 15,000 teenage footballers are moved out of West Africa every year - many of them illegally. 
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JUSTICE: 'Children’s equitable access to justice in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia'
16/Jun/2015 Publication
This UNICEF report sheds light on the tremendous barriers children in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia face in accessing justice for violations of their rights. 
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