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Issue Description
One in six children in the world is involved in child labour. Meanwhile, the use of children for sexual exploitation or as child soldiers is still a major concern around the world. This book presents the latest findings and statistics on these issues. The book also explores what is being done to eliminate the exploitation of children.
The information comes from a wide variety of sources and includes government reports and statistics, newspaper reports, features, magazine articles and surveys, literature from lobby groups and charitable organisations.
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Key Facts
- One out of six children in the world today is involved in child labour. (p. 1)
- Trafficking involves transporting people away from the communities in which they live, by the threat or use of violence, deception, or coercion so they can be exploited as forced or enslaved workers for sex or labour. (p. 3)
- Child domestics work under constant threat of punishment and physical abuse. (p. 10)
- All sexually exploited children suffer serious physical, psychological and social harm. (p. 16)
- Street children are often at greatest risk of violence from those that are responsible to protect them - the police and other authorities. (p. 19)
- Estimates suggest that globally up to two million children suffer sexual exploitation every year, the majority of them girls. (p. 20)
- Denied a childhood and often subjected to horrific violence, some 300,000 children are serving as soldiers in current armed conflicts. (p. 36)
- Children should be protected from warfare not used to wage it. Instead generations are having their childhoods stolen by governments and armed groups. (p. 38)
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Table of Contents
Chapter One: Child Labour
Facts on child labour, Faces of exploitation, Child labour, Child labour on sugar plantations, The ILO and the fight against child labour, Children as domestic labourers, Child domestics, Economically active children, Child labour - what can be done?, Children engaged in child labour, Child labour, Economic truths of child labour, Eliminating child labour.
Chapter Two: Sexual Exploitation
Commercial sexual exploitation, Sexual exploitation, Street children, Sexual exploitation, Child sex tourism, Prevention through awareness, Responsibilities of the tourism industry, Global problem needs a global solution, Fighting sexual exploitation and trafficking, Worst forms of child labour.
Chapter Three: Child Soldiers
Child soldiers, Child soldiers in armed conflict, Global trends, War-affected children, Broken lives of the twilight children, Stop the use of child soldiers!, Voices of young soldiers, Governments failing generations of children, Children as weapons of war.
Key Facts
Additional Resources
Index
Acknowledgements
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The Study Guide for: Exploited Children - Volume 99
Each book in the Issues series has a study guide. These four-page guides provide a variety of discussion points and other activities to suit a wide range of ability levels and interests.
Publisher: Independence Educational Publishers
Price: £1.95
ISBN: 978 1 86168 338 0