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Trafficking of children is a form of human trafficking and is defined by the United Nations as the "recruitment, transportation, harboring, and/or receipt" kidnapping of a child for the purpose of slavery, forced labour, and exploitation. [1] : . Article 3 (c) This definition is substantially wider than the same document's definition of ...
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is an international human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children. [ 4] The convention defines a child as any human being under the age of eighteen, unless the age of majority is ...
The Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography is a protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child and requires parties to prohibit the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography . The Protocol was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2000 [2] and entered into force on ...
The Children's Charter has a clearer definition of the child as a person aged under 18 years old; Outright prohibition on the recruitment of children (i.e. under 18 years old) in armed conflict and deals with conscription of children into the armed forces; Prohibiting marriages or betrothals involving children; Prohibiting the use of children ...
In the biological sciences, a child is usually defined as a person between birth and puberty, [ 1][ 2] or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty. [ 3] Legally, the term child may refer to anyone below the age of majority or some other age limit. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child defines child as, "A human ...
Rights. Children's rights or the rights of children are a subset of human rights with particular attention to the rights of special protection and care afforded to minors. [1] The 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) defines a child as "any human being below the age of eighteen years, unless under the law applicable to the child ...
A new video chat app called "Hello Santa" offers you and your child a one-on-one with the jolly ol' elf himself, and for once, it's not a pre-recorded video. For those who are sick of standing in ...
Child sex tourism, part of the multibillion-dollar global sex tourism industry, is a form of child prostitution within the wider issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children. Child sex tourism victimizes approximately 2 million children around the world. [1] [3] [4] [5] The children who perform as prostitutes in the child sex tourism ...