Child Abuse

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Child Abuse
Michael Newman, Flint Mu and Malcolm Chan
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What are the problems?

• Child Labour
• Child Soldiers
• Child Trafficking

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Child Labour

• In many third world countries, children from
  underprivileged families are often sent to
  factories, farms etc to work. The condition can
  often be awful and there is a high chance of
  getting injured or killed. These children are
  usually underpaid.

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Child soldiers

• In many countries plagued by war, a major problem
  is that the army is not getting enough soldiers.
  To that, they draft children to be used as
  soldiers. In the Gaza strip (Israel/Palestine),
  children as young as 9 are shown on documentary
  films to hold pistols.
• There are 51,000 child soldiers in Sri Lanka.
  Other than males, females are also drafted into
  the army 43 of those 51,000 are girls. Other
  countries using female child soldiers include
  Columbia, Pakistan, Uganda, the Philippines and
  the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In the
  DRC there are 12,500 female soldiers.

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Child Trafficking

• Children from third world countries are often
  abducted to be sold to other countries for money.
  These children are likely to never see their
  family again. These children usually end up as
  workers in factories, the sexual industry or as
  jockeys.

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Which rights are broken?
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• The articles coloured red are broken in Child
  abuse issues.
• Thats 60 of all of the articles in the
  Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Where is it a problem?

• Child issues are a problem here

Pretty much everywhere
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Where is it a problem?

• In particular, it is a problem in these places
• Australia
• Hong Kong
• China
• America
• Indonesia
• Thailand
• Africa
• Most of SE Asia

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What has the UN done about Child issues?

• List here the things the UN has done about the
  problems, with explanations for each.

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What can we do about it?

• List what we can do about it in detail.