Title:
Strengthening children’s rights
Authors:
Kubo, A.
Year:
2009
Serial number:
13
Journal:
The Broker
Pages:
24
-
25
ISSN:
1874-2033
Language:
eng
Subject:
Humanitarian Assistance
Keywords:
children
,
human rights
,
human security
Abstract:
Child helplines around the world enable children to share their problems and seek assistance. Alice Kubo of Child Helpline International (CHI, the global network of child helplines) talks about how research can help identify more effective ways to prevent the maltreatment of children, including commercial exploitation such as child trafficking. Child trafficking is increasing worldwide. In February, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) issued a Global Report on Trafficking in Persons. It shows that almost 20% of all trafficking victims are children. For some parts of Africa figures are much worse, and children there represent the majority of victims of trafficking.
Organization:
The Broker
Region:
Africa South of Sahara
Category:
General
Right:
© 2009 IDP. This article has been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported license.
Document type:
E-article
File:
137998.pdf