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September 2011: Protecting Children's Rights
Every day, children’s rights are being violated around the world. Abuse, malnutrition, poverty, child trafficking, and child labour are just a few of the most pressing issues surrounding this topic. Children have the right to have adequate health care, education, a place to live, and the freedom to play. They have the right to be protected from abuse, neglect, exploitation and discrimination. They also have the right to live in a healthy environment.
Many children in the world are deprived of one or several of these rights. Here is a place to read about issues such as: people who have had their rights violated, people who have worked with troubled youth, and people from countries where child labour is not only common, but a widely accepted way for children to help out parents struggling to survive economically.
Who is responsible for defending child rights?
How does violating the rights of the child impact their development?
Picture credit: “Children if Admiral” http://gg.tigweb.org/jager/20599/
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Child Labour- a Dehumanizing Slave Master by Osaretin, Nigeria
Child labour is something common in Africa and Nigeria where I come from because of poverty. Here, most families live below the poverty line, and as a result, malnutrition is not uncommon in Africa. The wealth of the nations is not evenly distributed. It is rather concentrated in the hands of very few of the privileged, such that the gap between the haves and the...
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Just as well (they can’t attend) by David Kapp, South Africa
Just as well (they can’t attend)
Just as well
they can’t attend
I declare in response
to hearing yet another
tale about the fiefdom
Our primary school kids
can’t attend some game
or the other (your guess)
forbidden as it were
by the new regime
during their occupation
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other articles in this issue
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Use Positive thinking
Ambassador .Prince A. wilson, Nigeria |
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Is there Hope for African Youths in 2012?
Anthony Lukwesa, Zambia |
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Young vendors in Egypt
Jenna Carter, Canada |
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Let us enable children the Right to Education
shilpasayura, Sri Lanka |
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A New Education
Robbie, Australia |
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Prefiro a Luz da Vela que com Cera em Fervura me Leva ao Ser Rural
Elaine CrisXavante (Comitiva Pantaneira), Brazil |
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"Education" or "Schooling"??
Akshyata Uprety, Nepal |
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Human Capital vs Working Capital
Mayang Rizky, Indonesia |
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Tornar a Vida Inviável para o capitalismo Desmoronar por Completo
Elaine CrisXavante (Comitiva Pantaneira), Brazil |
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The factory children
Maja, United Kingdom |
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