Protection

June 28,2016
Violence Against Children: Psychological abuse

Violence against children usually evokes images or impressions of physical abuse, but psychological violence can be just as damag

June 28,2016
Violence against children: Physical Punishment

The Committee on the Rights of the Child defines ‘physical’ or ‘corporal’punishment as:

June 22,2016
CRC article 35: Sale,Trafficking and abduction

What does article 35 say?

June 22,2016
What is child sex tourism?

According to ECPAT International, there are two types of sexual exploitation of under-18s in relation to tourism: the minority are sex tourists with a specific interes

June 22,2016
children’s rights regarding freedom from sexual abuse and exploitation

Millions of girls and boys worldwide are being used in prostitution, images of child sexual abuse (child pornography), trafficking and other forms of sexual exploitati

June 22,2016
Sexual Exploitation of Children

According to Save the Children, sexual exploitation refers to “the abuse of a position of vulnerability, differential power, or trust for sexual purposes; this include

June 22,2016
Children and slavery

A definition of slavery first appeared in an international agreement in the League of Nations

June 22,2016
State violence against children

Quite simply, State violence is violence enacted by the State or its subsidiary bodies , for example, police and security forces, or care institutions

June 22,2016
Forms of violence: State neglect

Article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child requires States to protect the child against “all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglec

June 22,2016
What is child trafficking?

The UN Study on Violence Against Children estimates that 8.4 million children are employed in the worst forms of child labour, and of these, 1.2 million are victims of

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