Military Use Of Children
Trafficking and Slavery
Internet Child Pornography
Child Prostitution
The children is used as a military. Alhamdullilah, in Malaysia, the children still can smile and take a deep breath. Military use of children happened in a country with war and no peace. For example like Palestinian children are taught to hate Jews, to glorify "jihad", violence and death. These children started their journey as military almost from birth as an essential part of their culture and destiny where they have to protect their country.
Trafficking and Slavery
What is child trafficking? Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of people for the purpose of exploitation'. Trafficking of person includes the threat, coercion or use of force, to abduct and/or deceive vulnerable persons for the purpose of exploitation either sexual or nonsexual. They are including victims of child soldiers, child labor and child pornography. What happened to them? They have been transported to the other country or state to be victim of trafficking.
Source: Foreign Policy Association
What is child pornography? Legal definition defined it as the idea of protecting children from sexual exploitation is relatively modern. As late as the 1880s in the United States, the age of consent for girls was just 10 years.In 1977, only two states had legislation specifically outlawing the use of children in obscene material. The first federal law concerning child pornography was passed in 1978, and the first laws that specifically referred to computers and child pornography were passed in 1988. Since that time, there has been a steady tightening of child pornography laws.
OTHER DEFINITION :
Any record of sexual activity involving a prepubescent person. Pornographic records include still photographs, videos, and
audio recordings. The images themselves vary considerably
in their graphic content. In some cases individuals may
collect images that do not involve overt pornography and
are not technically illegal. There are 10 levels of image
severity:
1. Indicative: non-sexualized pictures collected from
legitimate
(e.g., magazines, catalogs).
2. Nudist: naked or semi-naked pictures of children in
appropriate settings collected from legitimate sources.
3. Erotica: pictures taken secretly of children in which they reveal varying
degrees of nakedness.
4. Posing: posed pictures of children in varying degrees of nakedness.
5. Erotic posing: pictures of children in sexualized poses and in varying
degrees of nakedness.
6. Explicit erotic posing: pictures emphasizing the genitals.
7. Explicit sexual activity: record of sexual activity involving children but not
involving adults.
8. Assault: record of children subjected to sexual abuse involving digital
touching with adults.
9. Gross assault: record of children subjected to sexual abuse involving
penetrative sex, masturbation, or oral
sex with adults.
10. Sadistic/bestiality: record of children subjected to pain, or engaging in
sexual activity with an animal.
Child prostitution also means youth prostitution, juvenile prostitution, teen prostitution and adolescent prostitution, as long as the young woman who is involved in this activity is below 18 years
old. The word ‘child’ and ‘young woman’ will be used interchangeably. At present moment, the
involvement of children and young women below 18 years old is very important to deal with as they
make up the majority of those engaged in prostitution (O’Leary and Howard, 2001).
Child Labour
Child labor is work that harms children or keeps them from attending school. The pressure in family (living cost) forced millions of young children out of school and into work. The International Labor Organization estimates that 215 million children between the ages of 5 and 17 currently work under conditions that are considered as illegal, hazardous or extremely exploitative. Most of these children work in commercial, agriculture, fishing, manufacturing, mining and domestic service. Not only that, some of them also engage in drug trade and prostitution or other traumatic activities like serving and soldiers.
Child Neglect
National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) defines neglect as a type of maltreatment that refers to the failure by the caregiver to provide needed, age-appropriate care although financially able to do so or offered financial other means to do so. Usually, the close contact with the children is the suspect of this case. The suspect like physicians, nurses, day care personnel, relatives and neighbors. These children suspected of being neglect when they are at school. The indicators of child neglect such as poor hygiene, poor weight, inadequate medical care or frequent absences from school.
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Lack of Access to Education
We supposed to appreciate what we have right now. There are thousands of people lack of access to education throughout the world. The statistics are :
130 million children lack access to education
94% of children who don't attend school live in developing world
104 million children ages 5 to 12 do not attend school
Children labor is one of the main reasons children drop out of school
2/3 of students who drop out of school are girls. Girls are kept at home to help run the household or are married at a young age
Source : UNICEF
Poverty
According to UNICEF, 25,000 children die each day due to poverty. Around 27-28 % of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight or stunted. The two regions which having extremely poverty are South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
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