DEVELOPMENT: Child Rights Make Headway, But Millions Still Suffering
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 19 (IPS) – The international community, which has been hit by a financial meltdown and a global food crisis, claims it is doing its best to protect and safeguard the rights of children worldwide.
But its ”best” is still not good enough, complains the [...]
PHILIPPINES: Younger Prey in the World’s Oldest Trade
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Stella A. Estremera*
DAVAO CITY, Philippines , Nov 9 (IPS) – At 14, Ann is too young to be worrying about getting pregnant or acquiring AIDS. That is why she uses a condom whenever she has a customer.
She has become so good at it that the latter ”does [...]
AFGHANISTAN: Teenagers Enlist in Army, Police
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Lal Aqa Sherin*
KABUL, Nov 2 (IPS) – Niamatullah joined the Afghan National Police (ANP) for the same reasons that many Afghan men do.
”I am illiterate,” he says, sitting in the police barracks in Aghandab district, Kandahar, a Kalashnikov machine-gun hanging from a strap on his neck. ”I [...]
MIDEAST: Israel Divided Over ‘Illegal’ Children
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By Jerrold Kessel and Pierre Klochendler
TEL AVIV, Nov 2 (IPS) – "Migrant workers bring with them a profusion of diseases – hepatitis, measles, tuberculosis, AIDS and drug addiction: Our critics can be as sanctimonious as they like, but unless we stop the wave of migrant workers, the whole [...]
PHILIPPINES: Children Worst Hit by Economic Crisis
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Stella A. Estremera*
DAVAO CITY, Philippines , Oct 30 (IPS) – ”Fifty pesos ‘kada adlaw; ang beinte niana pamasahe’ (I get an allowance of 50 pesos (about one U.S. dollar) a day, of which 20 pesos (40 U.S. cents) is for fare),” says 17-year-old Dana Jane Estrada.
The second-year [...]
RIGHTS: Arms Treaty Could Be Powerful Tool to Protect Children
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Suzanne Hoeksema
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 23 (IPS) – The impact of global weapons trafficking on children and their recruitment as fighters should be on the agenda of talks for an international Arms Trade Treaty, say United Nations experts and non-governmental organisations.
Formal negotiations on the treaty have not gotten [...]
HEALTH-AFRICA: Fresh Campaign Against Paediatric AIDS
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Nalisha Kalideen
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 22 (IPS) – Eleven years ago, Raloke Odetoyinbo had been married for two years and a month when she found out she was HIV positive.
In that moment she thought she had lost her chance of ever having children because, she said, she believed that [...]
YEMEN: Children Flee Fighting
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By Phoebe Greenwood*
AMRAN, Yemen, Oct 12 (IPS/AJ) – As the conflict between government forces and Houthi fighters grinds on in the mountains of Saada in northern Yemen, thousands of Yemeni civilians, many of them children, are being forced from their homes by the fighting.
The latest UN figures [...]
