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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Trafficking in Livina Nkiruka
Agwunobi, 14
September 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 October 2011] Sometimes, children
are left to the lender as a pawn for a borrowed sum. Immediately, these
children are taken away from the parents, their problems start. They
face problems of physical abuse, sexual abuse, child labor, and are generally
neglected. Most of them lose contact with their parents and relations
and when they could not contain the exploitation, they run away to the street
and become street children. While on the
street, they feel that they have got the freedom, but exploitation continues.
They are sexually abused and are targets for those looking for cheap labour.
They are faced with worries about their needs: food, shelter, water,
clothing, and medical. Their mental reasoning is distorted. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/togo.html [accessed 31 July 2011] Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61597.htm [accessed 30 December 2010] CHILDREN
- The
government provided education in state schools, and school attendance is
compulsory for both boys and girls until the age of 15. According to a
September UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) report, approximately 79 percent of
children aged 5 to 11, mostly boys, attended school. In that age group,
approximately 83 percent of boys and 74 percent of girls started primary
school, but only an estimated 51 percent of boys and 22 percent of girls
reached secondary school. TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Boys were trafficked for agricultural work in Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
28 January 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/togo2005b.html [accessed 30 December 2010] [63] The Committee
welcomes the ratification by the State party party’s ratification of ILO
Conventions No. 138 concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment
in 1984 and No. 182 concerning the Prohibition and Immediate Action for
the Elimination of the Worst Forms of Child Labor in 1984 and 2000
respectively and the strategies implemented to prevent and combat child
labor. Nevertheless, it remains concerned at the high large number of
children working in the informal sector, in factories, as domestic servants,
and on the streets. [66] The Committee
welcomes the adoption on 18 March 1998 of Act No. 98/008 on drugs control of
18 March 1998,and the setting up in 1996 of the National Anti‑Drug
Committee (CNAD) and in 2000 of the National Anti‑Drugs Plan. However,
the Committee remains concerned by about the high large number of children,
in particular street children, using and selling drugs. [68] The Committee
is concerned by at the high large number of children living and working on
the streets, and by at the vulnerability of these children to various forms
of violence, including sexual abuse and economic exploitation, economic
exploitation, and at the lack of a systematic and comprehensive strategy to
address the situation and protect these children, and at the very poor
registration and tracing of missing children by the police. Information about Street Children - This report is taken from “A Civil Society
Forum for Francophone Africa on Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Street
Children”, 2-5 June 2004, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 July 2011] Estimates range
from as few as 500 to as many as 3,000 in the capital Lome alone. Even less
is known about the proportion of girls within this population, as they are
far less visible than boys. It is not
uncommon to see children 7-years-old in the streets, and most of the children
report living there for periods of at least 3 years, usually more. Child Trafficking in Livina Nkiruka
Agwunobi, 14
September 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 October 2011] Sometimes, children
are left to the lender as a pawn for a borrowed sum. Immediately, these
children are taken away from the parents, their problems start. They
face problems of physical abuse, sexual abuse, child labor, and are generally
neglected. Most of them lose contact with their parents and relations
and when they could not contain the exploitation, they run away to the street
and become street children. While on the
street, they feel that they have got the freedom, but exploitation continues.
They are sexually abused and are targets for those looking for cheap labour.
They are faced with worries about their needs: food, shelter, water,
clothing, and medical. Their mental reasoning is distorted. All
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