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From clean water, to child labour, you can explore important topics with our background issues information. Get the facts and statistics you need to take action on the issues you care about. Explore our collection below to access detailed information about important social and global issues. Child Labour Shortly after Iqbal Masih was born in a small village in rural Pakistan, his father abandoned the family. When Iqbal was ten years old, a local labour rights organization helped him escape the factory.
Iqbal’s story reflects the lives of over 200 million children around the world who have been forced to give up school, sports, play and sometimes even their families and homes to work under dangerous, harmful and abusive conditions. A Closer Look. Child slaves in South Asia. Child Slaves of South Asia Child working in quarry (Photo taken by Mathias Heng during Mission funded by the Society.
Copyright Mathias Heng). Child Slavery in Haiti. In November 1989, the UN General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child, recognizing “that in all countries in the world, there are children living in exceptionally difficult conditions, and that such children need special consideration.”
Then in May 2000, the General Assembly adopted an Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. In 1990, the UN Commission on Human Rights appointed a Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography with a mandate to investigate the problem and submit reports to the General Assembly. Some as young as three are beaten, forced to do anything asked, request nothing, speak only when spoken to, display no emotion, and receive none of the benefits parents expected, just exploitation and mistreatment that’s often severe. Child labor and child slaves. Child labor and child slaves By Dipak Basu 7 January 2000 The following article was submitted to the World Socialist Web Site by Dr.
Dipak Basu, Professor in Economics at Nagasaki University in Japan. It is followed by a commentary by Jerry White, on behalf of the WSWS editorial board, concerning the political conclusions drawn by Dr. This World Child Slavery. Child Prostitution. Child Prostitution In India. "Child prostitution is the ultimate denial of the rights of the child.
" (Dr Jon E Rhode, UNICEF representative in India). Child Prostitution In The Philippines2. Child Prostitution Child Prostitution - South Africa Human trafficking is modern slavery. As a result of a relentless campaign led by William Wilberforce, slavery was "abolished" in this country in 1807.
Yet sadly it still exists. United Nations figures suggest that 800,000 people are trafficked annually in one form or another. Modern slavery assumes a different mantle from the slavery of Wilberforce's day. Then, it was part of everyday life. Today's slavery is more insidious, hidden from public gaze. It takes many forms. Human trafficking is nothing less than serious, international, organised crime: the money generated from it (an estimated $32bn per annum) is only marginally less than from arms dealing and drug smuggling. Modern Slavery: People for Sale. During 2001, at least 700,000 and potentially as many as 4 million men, women and children worldwide were bought, sold, transported and held against their will in slave-like conditions, according to the U.S.
State Department. In it's Second Annual Trafficking in Persons Report, the Department of State finds that modern slave traders, or "person-traffickers" use threats, intimidation and violence to force victims to engage in sex acts or to work under conditions comparable to slavery for the traffickers’ financial gain. According to the report, women and children make up the overwhelming majority of victims, typically being sold into the international sex trade for prostitution, sex tourism and other commercial sexual services, and into forced labor situations in sweatshops, construction sites and agricultural settings. In other forms of servitude, children are abducted and forced to fight for government military forces or rebel armies, and to act as domestic servants and street beggars.
Modern Slavery Modern Slavery - Human Trafficking Modern-Day Slavery in Pakistan: Indentured Poor. As Hillary Clinton pays her first visit to Pakistan as Secretary of State, an unfolding hostage crisis will test the Obama Administration's rhetoric on human rights in the region.
Officials at the U.S. embassy in Islamabad say at least three landlords have held as many as 170 bonded farmworkers at gunpoint on their estates in the country's southeast Sindh province since late September. With U.S. attention focused on getting Pakistan to deal with huge security issues to Washington's satisfaction, will Clinton be able to press Islamabad's rulers to address a controversy involving rural poverty and modern-day slavery?
Alliance Against Modern Slavery. Special Reports. Modern slavery Slavery at sea exposed - national. Last updated 05:00 03/04/2011 NET PROFITS: New Zealand officials have long been aware of conditions on foreign-crewed fishing vessels but there have been no prosecutions Secret papers reveal the government has allowed fishermen from poor countries to be exploited in New Zealand waters.
Workers are fishing in rusting boats turned into high seas sweatshops that take large parts of the country's $1.4 billion-a-year catch. The government papers reveal that thousands of men from poor areas are beaten and forced to work for days without rest, earning between $260 and $460 a month before paying much of it over to "agents".
Files obtained under the Official Information Act show the government has known about the problem for some time. Foreign charter vessels – 21 in the last year – are hired by New Zealand companies to catch quota allocated to Maori under Treaty of Waitangi settlements. That catch, worth $300 million a year, is marketed as "Produce of New Zealand". - © Fairfax NZ News. Human medical experimentation in the United States. Human medical experimentation in the United States The shocking true history of modern medicine and psychiatry (1833-1965) by Dani Veracity Introduction The United States claims to be the world leader in medicine.
U.S. to begin using prison inmates for medical experiments. (NaturalNews) A federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen restrictions limiting the testing of experimental pharmaceuticals on prisoners. The restrictions were put in place in the 1970s after prisoner abuses were discovered. The proposed changes would include rules meant to prevent previous abuses from happening again -- though critics of the recommendations say prisoner abuse is inevitable. Prisoner advocates also sharply criticize the panel's claim that loosening restrictions on prisoner testing would serve to offer the prisoners access to better medical care. Experiments in Torture: Medical Group Accuses CIA of Carrying Out Illegal Human Experimentation.
Medical Experiments On Prisoners And Mental Patients In U.S. : AFACeAFACe. About Detention as Treatment. In many countries, governments involuntarily detain certain populations in institutions, ostensibly for the purpose of treating a medical condition such as drug addiction, mental disability, or tuberculosis. Such institutions are invariably sites of extreme vulnerability to human rights abuse, sometimes amounting to torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment. In all corners of the world, people who use drugs are forcibly detained in “rehabilitation” centers where they may be subjected to beatings, forced labor, medical experimentation, denial of basic health care (including evidence-based drug treatment), and other severe human rights violations.
Evidence Indicates that the Bush Administration Conducted Experiments and Research on Detainees to Design Torture Techniques and Create Legal Cover. For Immediate Release Cambridge, Mass - 06/07/2010. Guatemalan STD medical experiments were just one crime in a long history of medical-government collusion to use humans as guinea pigs. (NaturalNews) It has now been widely revealed that the United States conducted medical experiments on prisoners and mental health patients in Guatemala in the 1940's.
Carried out by a government-employed doctor working in a psychiatric hospital, these experiments involved intentionally infecting Guatemalans with syphilis (and other STDs) without their knowledge in order to determine the effectiveness of penicillin. They were sponsored in part by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), and they've now been widely reported by ABC News, the Washington Post and many other mainstream papers (who have suddenly taken an interest in a subject they normally wouldn't touch).
The outrage against this inhumane medical science experiment is reflected in mainstream news headlines across the globe, and the Guatemalan government now characterizes this sad chapter in U.S. history as a "crime against humanity. " But what you're about to reveal here will shock you even more. CIA doctors face human experimentation claims. A US flag at Camp Delta in Guantánamo Bay. Photograph: Paul J Richards/AFP/Getty Images Doctors and psychologists the CIA employed to monitor its "enhanced interrogation" of terror suspects came close to, and may even have committed, unlawful human experimentation, a medical ethics watchdog has alleged.
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a not-for-profit group that has investigated the role of medical personnel in alleged incidents of torture at Guantánamo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and other US detention sites, accuses doctors of being far more involved than hitherto understood. PHR says health professionals participated at every stage in the development, implementation and legal justification of what it calls the CIA's secret "torture programme". The Future of Children - Making Health Equality a Reality. Voices for Health Equality.
Amnesty International. Beyond ourselves. Human rights. Human Rights.