(a) Minors who committed a criminal offence

A logo has been developed for use in combating abductions of women and children.

Various assistance is available to girls in disadvantaged areas.

On 15 March 2001, China signed the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the involvement of children in armed conflict, and is currently considering its ratification.

Meanwhile, studies on the suppression of this trade along the China Viet Nam border have been conducted, and bilateral seminars have been held with Thailand for the same purpose.

against an individual known to be underage or a minor or

President of the Association for the Protection of Minors in Lebanon (founded in 1939), which provides care for delinquent or potentially delinquent minors

There are two main categories of child pornography related offences in China.

The financial authorities in Heilongjiang, Hunan, Sichuan and elsewhere have made specific budgetary provision to support Caring for Girls campaigns in targeted counties.

For sex crimes against minors, the crime was considered to be sexual abuse, not harassment.

It was particularly alarmed at the execution of minors, including for morality crimes .

1945, sixmonth prison sentence for inciting a minor to debauchery.

A number of cooperative programmes have been entered into with Viet Nam, in particular.

Sexual practice with minors can constitute a criminal offense leading to conviction.

More recently, the Spring Buds Fund for Practical Technical Training has been established to provide cultural education and vocational training to girls in disadvantaged areas.

China also attended the second World Congress on this theme held in Yokohama, Japan, in November 2001, and signed the Yokohama Global Commitment that was drafted there.

Any person also commits an offence if that person attempts to commit an offence as set forth in paragraph 1 of the present article.

In 2003, the Ministry of Public Security and the All China Women's Federation jointly designed a logo and a set of publicity materials for use in campaigns against abduction and trafficking, and produced a series of lively public interest television advertisements.

Most provincial newspapers have published columns on the subject while some 43,000 websites and 39,000 web pages carry related messages.

Anyone who intimidates, humiliates, assaults or retaliates against a witness or his near relatives shall, if his act constitutes a crime, be prosecuted according to law if the case is not serious enough to warrant criminal punishment, he shall incur administrative penalties for a breach of public order in accordance with the law .

Cooperation with bordering countries in law enforcement has been strengthened to clamp down on cross border abductions and trafficking.

Delinquent minors are also accommodated in the two children s homes or with foster parents.

Cooperation with all relevant United Nations institutions and other organizations has increased.

China's first report on the implementation of the Convention was submitted in September 2004.

China's average per capita income still ranks comparatively low on the world scale, and there remain great developmental imbalances between urban and rural areas, and from region to region.

That home was full of young boys who were on remand for things like murder.

The grounds for boosting the liability consist in the fact that the target of a crime of intrusion with the essential elements given is the sexual freedom or the sexual inviolability of the person, and the victims of such crimes are always, or in the overwhelming majority of cases, females or minors.

A person who commits the criminal offence under paragraph 1 of this Article against the underage person shall be sentenced to minimal five year term of imprisonment.

Its main objectives were to pool the experience of these regions in combating such offences, assess the prevailing situation and develop new ideas and approaches.

Of the 374 persons sentenced in 1995 for sexual abuse of minors under 15 years of age, 116 were imprisoned.

This decree authorizes the National Service for Minors to grant a subsidy to the gendarmería for all minors under 18 detained for delinquency or breaking the law.

Disabled children in need can contact the hotline maintained by the Association to obtain assistance as necessary.

The report concluded that international trafficking in minors was a serious criminal offence committed primarily by criminal organizations with international connections.

Some 125,637 persons were convicted of crimes ranging from rape (including rape of a minor), to molestation of a child, to enticing minors to gather for licentious activities.

(f) A technical assistance programme to address the problems of minors at risk and juvenile offenders using drugs.

Since the early 1990s the Federation has been running the Spring Buds Programme, mobilizing social resources to assist girls in impoverished areas who have had to quit school to complete their period of compulsory education.

China's public security organs are also active members of Asia's Cyber Crime Technology Information Network System (CTINS), which utilizes Internet facilities for the immediate exchange or collection of information about computer based offences against children, detection and evidence gathering technologies, and pertinent legislation.

In eight provinces particularly prone to crimes of this type, powerful publicity campaigns against abductions have reached several hundred thousand people.

Examining Magistrate in major criminal and correctional cases (adults and minors).

It is also a crime to abet this crime (Section 166, paragraph 2 of the Criminal Code), to fail to prevent it (Section 167 of the Criminal Code), and to fail to report it (Section 168 of the Criminal Code).

If the criminal offence under paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article has been done to the children or an underage person, the perpetrator shall be sentenced to the term from one to ten years of imprisonment.

(c) Placing juvenile delinquents in centres for minors

Youth note that Governments in many countries still do not differentiate between petty crimes, violence and organized crime.

For the crime of kidnapping and false imprisonment, the sentence of two to five years in prison also applies to cases in which the victim was the companion of the perpetrator the victim of the crime was a minor (less than 18 years old) or if the crime was committed for lecherous purposes.

China's public security authorities participate actively in the activities of the Interpol Asia Pacific working group against cyber crime, and cooperate with other member countries in police training sessions, exchanges of detection and evidence gathering technologies, discussions of legislation to combat Internet crime and other activities.