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This book explores the process of orphanage trafficking as a form of child trafficking in international law, examining the contexts in which it occurs and providing a comprehensive, holistic approach to addressing the issue as a form of trafficking.
In doing so, the author establishes the method and process of orphanage trafficking as an issue of international concern and one that countries should work together to tackle.
It outlines specifically what steps countries where orphanage trafficking occurs should take legislatively to combat the issue, and similarly what steps…
This Unified Resolution from the Twenty-First Pan-American Child and Adolescent Congress highlights resolutions, declarations, recommendations and general comments relevant to violence against children, made by various treaty bodies and general assemblies. The Resolution recognizes the legislative impact the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child has had in the Inter-American System and the progress Member States have made in addressing violence against children. The Resolution also considers the imperatives and responsibilities of Member States to maintain and increase efforts…
In advance of the 21st Pan American Child and Adolescent Congress, the United Nations General Assembly, the Government of Brazil, together with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Latin American and Caribbean Chapter of the Global Movement for Children, and the NGO Group on Children without Parental Care based in New York, convened an international consultation on the elimination of violence against children in alternative care. Experts in government and civil society gathered together to…
A New Delhi Declaration renewing governments' commitments to the rights of children and pledging to support each other in the achievement of those rights, was adopted unanimously on 25th October 2013 by Asian and Pacific States attending the Second High Level Meeting on South-South Cooperation for Child Rights in Asia and the Pacific. The meeting, hosted by the government of India and supported by UNICEF, was attended by representatives of 32 states from across South and East Asia and the Pacific.
Prior to adopting the Declaration, participants discussed…