Children's Right
Can you believe that million of children under 14 work as full time labor while million of others were killed by conflict and disease? I can not believe it, but it is the fact. Armed children, disabled children, refugee children- as many as million of million. Report from Child Rights Information Network: about 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 work. Of these, 120 million work full time and some 50-60 million work in hazardous circumstances. In India, at least 18 million children live or work on the streets, laboring as porters in railway stations or bus terminals, as ragpickers, and as vendors of food, tea, or handmade articles. These street children routinely subjected to arbitrary and illegal detention, torture, and extortion, and on occasion, murder at the hands of police. In Manila, 13- and 14-year-old girls work 17-hour days at their sewing machines in sweatshops. The pay: 13 cents an hour. That's better than the one
Child Rights Information Network, available at: http://www/crin. Some 300,000 serve in current armed conflicts. The UN Convention on Children's Rights has been ratified by almost every country in the world. In Russia children were abandoned to the state at a rate of more than 100,000 per year (UNICEF). These young combatants participated in all aspects of contemporary warfare. Not only had they suffered from war, but also many of them continued to suffer from hazardous labor exploitation, physical abuse, denial of education, and sexual violence-Every day, 30500 children under 5 die of mainly preventable causes, and even more children and young people succumb to illnesses, neglect, accidents and assaults that did not have to happen. The State of the World's Children, 1997. Children's Rightsą, Human Rights Watch (HRW), available at: http://www. Refugee children were among the most vulnerable children in the world. In developing countries, 97 per cent of disabled children are without any from of rehabilitation and 98 per cent without any education; they suffer more violence and abuse than other children and often shut away in institutions, cupboards and sheds, even starved to death.
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