Girl Child
News from the Diplomatic Mission to South Africa: Johannesburg Consulate hosts twenty girls on Cell C's "Take A Girl Child To Work" program, 05/27/2005
Pretoria, South Africa News from the Mission U.S. Diplomatic Mission > Local News Archive > May 27, 2005 Johannesburg Consulate hosts twenty girls on Cell C's "Take A Girl Child To Work" program Cultural Envoys, visiting basketball players, impress upon the girls the roles that women can play in transforming their socie ... [Read More]
Steven J. Law, "Ending Child Labor: A Global Priority" , eJournal USA: Economic Perspectives, May 2005
The experience of the USDOL confirms that only holistic approaches to combating child labor can hope to achieve meaningful, long-term results. And the foundation of every successful intervention is solid research. That is why ICLP funds several projects to determine the incidence and nature of child labor worldwide. These projects provide governments, international organizations, and the public with reliable quantitative and qualitative data on the nature and extent of child labor and its relationship to education, gender, and other factors. Data collection also provides a foundation upon which to target, design, and evaluate the effectiveness of other interventions. WINROCK INTERNATIONALEDUCATION INITIATIVE ... [Read More]
International Parental Child Abduction Pakistan
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Eric V. Edmonds, "Understanding Child Labor: Patterns, Types, and Causes" , eJournal USA: Economic Perspectives, May 2005
Apichart Weerawong, AP/WWP The following is excerpted from the Child Soldiers Global Report 2004, issued by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers. The majority of the world's child soldiers are involved in a variety of armed political groups. These include government-backed paramilitary groups, militias, and self-defense units operating with government support in many conflict zones. Others include armed groups opposed to central government rule; groups composed of ethnic, religious, and other minorities; and clan-based or factional groups fighting governments and each other to defend territory and resources. The use of children in hostilities by official government armed forces has declined since 2001 but continues in some countries. Government forces also continue to use children informally as ... [Read More]
One-Child Policy in China
The Chinese Government has also started a new government public information pilot project to highlight the status of the girl child. This could be an important step for human rights in eliminating discrimination against women and girls in China. Such an effort responds to the continuing reports of sex selective abortions in China and abandonment of girl babies, horrific behaviors that result from the devastating combination of the one-child policy and traditional son preference. Respect for the inherent worth and human dignity of the girl child, from conception through adulthood, is an essential element of a just society. This initiative is only a small step forward, but it does indicate some acknowledgement that the birth planning regime has resulted in very negative outcomes. ... [Read More]
About this issue 'Ending Abusive Child Labor', eJournal USA: Economic Perspectives, May 2005
The child on our cover, photographed by writer/director/cameraman Robin Romano, is pounding clay into bricks in West Bengal, India. As part of a feature documentary called Stolen Childhoods, Romano portrays child labor in eight countries and reports on programs to remove child laborers from work. "Brick kilns and gravel quarries are a common sight in West Bengal, Orissa, and the surrounding states of India," Romano writes in a Web site, www.stolenchildhoods.org, describing his photos. "The children that work here are exploited 12-16 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Their world consists only of these mud holes, drying fields, kilns, rock piles, and grinders. At night they sleep in the open or in makeshift shelter where sanitary conditions are nonexistent. There are no schools here, and for many there isn't even a family. Over one-third of the children working at this kiln and one-fourth of the children at the quarry have been shipped here from other areas, ... [Read More]
International Adoptions: Legal Permanent Residents and Intercountry Adoptions
Only US citizens may petition for the immediate immigration of foreign adopted children. There is no provision in US immigration law for the entry of newly adopted children of legal permanent residents (green card holders) and long term nonimmigrant visa holders. Legal permanent residents who do adopt abroad can only expect frustration in trying to bring their adopted children to the US. The United States Department of State reports cases each year of non-citizen pare ... [Read More]
I. Introduction
In 2003, the United States strengthened its ability to fight child sex tourism by passing the Prosecutorial Remedies and other Tools to end the Exploitation of Children Today (PROTECT) Act and The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act. Together these laws increase penalties to a maximum of 30 years in prison for engaging in CST. Since the passage of the PROTECT Act, there have been over 20 indictments and over a dozen convictions of child sex tourists. The Department of Homeland Security has also developed the Operation Predator initiative to combat child exploitation, child pornography, and child sex tourism. The United States is also funding the NGO World Vision to conduct a major public awareness, deterrence, and crime prevention project overseas. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Text: China's "One-Child" Policy Coercive, State's Dewey Says
The Chinese Government has also started a new government public information pilot project to highlight the status of the girl child. This could be an important step for human rights in eliminating discrimination against women and girls in China. Such an effort responds to the continuing reports of sex selective abortions in China and abandonment of girl babies, horrific behaviors that result from the devastating combination of the one-child policy and traditional son preference. Respect for the inherent worth and human dignity of the girl child, from conception through adulthood, is an essential element of a just society. This initiative is only a small step forward, but it does indicate some acknowledgement that the birth planning regime has resulted in very negative outcomes. ... [Read More]
I. Introduction (revised)
The United States strengthened its ability to fight child sex tourism last year through passage of the Trafficking Victim Protection Reauthorization Act and the PROTECT Act. Together these laws enhance awareness through the development and distribution of CST information and increase penalties to up to 30 years for engaging in child sex tourism. In the first eight months of "Operation Predator" (a 2003 initiative to fight child exploitation, child pornography, and child sex tourism), U.S. law enforcement authorities arrested 25 Americans for child sex tourism offenses. Overall, the global community is awakening to the horrific issue of child sex tourism and is starting to take important initial steps. ... [Read More]
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