Trafficking

TRAFFICKING: Young African footballers 'trafficked' to Laos
21/juil/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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ASIA-PACIFIC: Cost of child maltreatment tops $200 billion annually, reports UNICEF
3/juin/2015 News
Statistics show that failure to prevent violence against children is resulting in serious economic costs to countries, UNICEF warned at the launch of its ‘End Violence against Children’ campaign in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. 
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COMITÉ AFRICAIN D'EXPERTS : le Sénégal viole les droits des enfants talibés
1/juin/2015 News
Le Comité africain d'experts sur les droits et le bien-être de l'enfant a rendu sa décision sur le cas des enfants talibés.
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OPEN LETTER: Call for action to stop repeated human tragedies in the Mediterranean
23/avr/2015 News
The European Network of Ombudspersons for Children appeals to all national governments, the European Union, and the International Community to act. 
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ITALY: Children's Rights References in the Universal Periodic Review
20/avr/2015 Publication
A compilation of extracts featuring child-rights issues from the reports submitted to the second Universal Periodic Review. There are extracts from the 'National report', the 'Compilation of UN information' and the 'Summary of stakeholder information'. Also included is the final report and the list of accepted and rejected recommendations.
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Nvumeleni Jezile v. The State
lun, 23/03/2015 - 00:00 Case Law
Case concerning ukuthwala - the custom of abducting girls for marriage in South Africa.
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ITALY: Scores of migrant boat children sent to care facilities, but hundreds still waiting
6/mar/2015 News
More than 700 unaccompanied children are still living in initial reception facilities in Italy while they wait to be placed in children’s homes.
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تقرير عالمي: التقرير السنوي لامنستي 2014-2015
26/fév/2015 Publication
كان عام 2014 عام دمار لمن سعوا إلى رفع راية حقوق الإنسان والدفاع عنها، ولمن حاصرتهم ضروب المعاناة في مناطق الحروب.
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GLOBAL REPORT: Amnesty International annual report 2014/2015
25/fév/2015 Publication
'This has been a devastating year for those seeking to stand up for human rights and for those caught up in the suffering of war zones. We must hope that, looking backward to 2014 in the years to come, what we lives through will be seen as an ultimate low point from which we rose up and created a better future.'
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INDIA: Police rescues hundreds of trafficked child slaves from bangle-making workshop
30/Jan/2015 News
Most of the the children were trafficked away from their impoverished parents in the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in exchange for 5,000 rupees ($80) as payment.
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