Fighting Human Rights Abuses and Violations.
The International Criminal Court against Child Kidnapping maintains that children and their "left behind" parents who do not know their international rights are vulnerable and easy prey for ill-intended individuals. Statistics of loss of dignity and life through child abuse, gang violence, enforced disappearance, child labor, child soldiers, Governmental child kidnapping are staggeringly high.
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BRUTAL HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS
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Human rights advocates agree that, sixty years after its issue, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is still more a dream than reality. Violations exist in every part of the world. For example, Amnesty International’s 2009 World Report and other sources show that individuals are:
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Tortured or abused in at least 81 countries
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Face unfair trials in at least 54 countries
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Restricted in their freedom of expression in at least 77 countries
Not only that, but women and children in particular are marginalized in numerous ways, the press is not free in many countries, and dissenters are silenced, too often permanently. While some gains have been made over the course of the last six decades, human rights violations still plague the world today.
To help inform you of the true situation throughout the world, this section provides examples of violations of several Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which violates the rights of children:
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ARTICLE 3 — THE RIGHT TO LIVE FREE
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“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.”
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An estimated 6,500 people including children were killed in 2007 in armed conflict in Afghanistan—nearly half being noncombatant civilian deaths at the hands of insurgents. Hundreds of civilians were also killed in suicide attacks by armed groups.
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In Brazil in 2007, according to official figures, police killed at least 1,260 individuals including children — the highest total to date. All incidents were officially labeled “acts of resistance” and received little or no investigation.
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In Uganda, 1,500 people including children die each week in the internally displaced person camps. According to the World Health Organization, 500,000 have died in these camps.
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Vietnamese authorities forced at least 75,000 drug addicts and prostitutes into 71 overpopulated “rehab” camps, labeling the detainees at “high risk” of contracting HIV/AIDS but providing no treatment.
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ARTICLE 4 — NO SLAVERY
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“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.”
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In northern Uganda, the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) guerrillas have kidnapped 20,000 children over the past twenty years and forced them into service as soldiers or sexual slaves for the army.
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In Guinea-Bissau, children as young as five are trafficked out of the country to work in cotton fields in southern Senegal or as beggars in the capital city. In Ghana, children five to fourteen are tricked with false promises of education and future into dangerous, unpaid jobs in the fishing industry. In Asia, Japan is the major destination country for trafficked women, especially women coming from the Philippines and Thailand. UNICEF estimates 60,000 child prostitutes in the Philippines.
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The US State Department estimates 600,000 to 820,000 men, women and children are trafficked across international borders each year, half of whom are minors, including record numbers of women and girls fleeing from Iraq. In nearly all countries, including Canada, the US and the UK, deportation or harassment are the usual governmental responses, with no assistance services for the victims.
At the same time the U.S. Government is wrongfully retaining illegal immigrant children in the country who are victims of parental child kidnapping. The U.S. Court system and corrupt judges are violating International Laws & Treaties and make more than 200,000 kidnapped children "Prisoners of USA" by colluding, conspiring as well as aiding and abetting the illegal immigrant child kidnappers.
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In the Dominican Republic, the operations of a trafficking ring led to the death by asphyxiation of 25 Haitian migrant workers. In 2007, two civilians and two military officers received lenient prison sentences for their part in the operation.
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In Somalia in 2007, more than 1,400 displaced Somalis and Ethiopian nationals died at sea in trafficking operations.
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ARTICLE 13 — FREEDOM TO MOVE
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“1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each State.
“2. Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.”
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In the USA, and many other countries across the world thousands of kidnapped children every year are being wrongfully retained against the will and without the consent of the "left behind" parent. Criminal judges refused to release these children to return them to their country of legal domicile but instead keep these children as illegal immigrants depriving them the liberty to leave the country and return to their home country.
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