Moved from section dealing with protection of children child victims

An estimated 1 million children have been forced into child prostitution worldwide.

We can begin with the children.

Some 250 million children between the ages of 5 and 14 years are involved in child labour.

A matter closely connected with the sexual exploitation of children and their use in pornography is that of practising paedophiles and their procurers.

50. The Committee recommends that special protective measures be implemented in relation to children living in rural areas, children who are victims of abuse, children of single parent families, children born out of wedlock, abandoned, institutionalized and disabled children, children involved with the juvenile justice system, particularly when deprived of their liberty, children involved in child labour and children who, in order to survive, are forced to live and or work in the streets.

280. The Committee recommends that special protective measures be implemented in relation to children living in rural areas, children who are victims of abuse, children of single parent families, children born out of wedlock, abandoned, institutionalized and disabled children, children involved with the juvenile justice system, particularly when deprived of their liberty, children involved in child labour and children who, in order to survive, are forced to live and or work on the street.

60. Mrs. Ali (Nigeria) said that concerted efforts were necessary at all levels in order to reduce violence against children, child labour, the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

A focus of UNICEF activities in Uganda is protecting these children.

4. UNICEF would like to draw the attention of the working group to the importance of prohibiting voluntary recruitment into armed forces.

Nova Scotia provides funding for child care to promote healthy development of children and to support working parents needing child care.

(f) To recognize that persons convicted of violent offences against and sexual abuse of children who continue to pose a risk of harm to children should be prevented from working with children

All forced recruitment of children should be abolished as well as their involvement in forced labour.

All forced recruitment of children should be abolished, as well as their involvement in forced labour.

(a) the traffic in and or sale of children, particularly for their economic or sexual exploitation, for their unlawful adoption or for purposes of removing from them organs, tissues or body material

You get books out of the machines, children's books.

36. The community of nations should include in its agenda the fight against transnational networks engaged in child trafficking and the sexual exploitation of children for commercial purposes, begging by children, the problems of street children, assistance for disabled children, the plight of children in strife torn countries, and the education of girls.

Upon becoming a party to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the country had begun to amend legal provisions concerning children.

Child survival needs a continuum of care approach that begins in pregnancy and extends through birth and childhood.

It hopes that the term sale of children is also understood to include children sold into bonded labour.

Re investments have included Early Childhood Services Children at Risk Services, as well as a new Healthy Child Allowance which has been increased regularly to match increases in NCB rates from 28 per month per child in 2000 to 59 per month per child in 2004.

241. As can be seen from the above table the fight against child mortality and childhood diseases is the priority objective for paediatric health care.

68. Australia was developing a national agenda for action against the commercial sexual exploitation of children, and strongly supported the work on a draft optional protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child related to the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.

Also in Lebanon, the child to child methodology was used to involve children in planning, implementing and evaluating activities under the supervision of skilled animators.

30. Her Government viewed the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography as a new problem which required serious attention.

Following a community reintegration approach, other war affected children such as street or working children, internally displaced children and child returnees will also benefit from the programme.

But low income countries are still far from meeting the goal of ensuring that all children complete primary school only 63 of children in those countries achieve that milestone. Poor children, children with disabilities, girls, and ethnic minorities still face daunting barriers to education.

We must effectively implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and we must append to this Convention a protocol that would organize global measures against child slavery, prostitution and pornography.

Moreover, the LTTE has engaged in re recruiting those who had been released and even those who had escaped from training camps, through threats, intimidation and physical attacks on the children, as well as their family members.

According to UNICEF, at least 76 children were killed and 130 wounded in the 12 month period from March 1993 to March 1994.

II. SALE OF CHILDREN, CHILD PROSTITUTION AND CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

Children At the Clinic for Children apos s Diseases

The outbreak affected mainly children aged 10 and above, including those previously immunized, suggesting a shift in the incidence of the disease from infancy and early childhood towards older age groups.

In 2001 434 children were transferred from medical institutions to care institution, including 330 children to social care institutions for orphans.

Calls upon States parties to strengthen relevant governmental structures for children, including, where appropriate, ministers in charge of child issues and independent commissioners for the rights of the child, and ensure adequate and systematic training in the rights of the child for professional groups working with and for children

Bearing in mind that the majority of the child victims in the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography are from developing countries,

Expert on children apos s mental health at the International Pediatric Association (Served four consecutive years beginning 1984)

Sale of children, child Ms. O. Calcetas Santos 1998

Such groups include girls, children living in poverty, children with disabilities, children belonging to indigenous or minority groups, children from migrant families, children without parental care, children living in institutions, children living with their mothers in prisons, refugee and asylum seeking children, children infected with or affected by HIV AIDS, and children of alcohol or drug addicted parents.

20. The commercial sexual exploitation of children was recognized as one of the most serious violations of children s rights.

(s) Funding from UNICEF Guatemala to CHILDHOPE to carry out a survey on the kinds of work performed by street children in Guatemala City (1995).

(b) Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and

protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children,

The child poverty rate decreased from 17.6 percent in 2000 to 12.9 percent in 2002.

This included transferring 217 children from the care of the Ministry of Children and Family Development to the care of an Aboriginal agency with authority for child welfare services, planning for at risk Aboriginal children, and developing and providing services for Aboriginal children and families having difficulties.