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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September 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may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 material used herein
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