International_Abduction_and_Forced_Child_Labor.

International Abduction and Forced Child Labor. We have now moved into the 21st century, and still millions of people are subject to forced labor. Any sort of forced labour is a serious human rights violation, it is seen as an international criminal offence. Forced labor is not supposed to be accepted anywhere. Bodies such as the International Labor Organisation (ILO) are trying to eradicate abduction and child labor . The ILO by its 29th convention ,hopes to completely put an end to all this. Topics such as abduction and forced child labor keep popping up in the news .Just to let you all know that according to the human rights commission every child has a right to live (which means he/she cannot be forced into war ), right to be educated ( this indicates that children are not subject to being employed). Now for your awareness I have put together many cases from all over the globe , when people have been abducted and forced into labor. SUDAN In the year 1999 , it was found out by a team of UN experts that local militant organizations receiving direct help from the Sudanese authorities ,were raiding and torching down many villages. The militants captured the women and children and sent them to the northern part of Sudan where middlemen would eventually sell or give them away to people .These poor people had no social security and were vulnerable to being exploited. There were organizations which came up to protect these people , but they were of little effect. HAITI Haiti has recently been a top headline maker and has won many sympathizers all over the world. Haiti has received $4.4 billion as aid from countries all over the world to rebuild their country after the tragic earthquake .But what we haven`t heard about is the forced child labor in Haiti . Many poor parents sell their young ones away as they cannot afford their well being .These children mostly girls grow up to be known as RESTAVAKS .They have no social security and when they are of age they are sexually exploited . Some are also forced to work for families , if they run away, they are caught, brutally beaten and brought back .Today there is said to be approximately 250,000 of these RESTAVAKS living in Haiti. AFRICA and ASIA There have been a countless no. of cases in Africa and Asia of forced child labor and international abduction . In the Dark Continent there are many countries which are going through civil wars , mainly due to their weak governments . For eg. Governments of Somalia, Uganda, Sierra Leone , Mozambique etc. These countries main problems are of child abduction ,for increasing the strength of their armies . These children are turned into fanatics and are trained to take up arms against their own government. There have been many documentaries and movies made on these conflicts . Blood diamond is a famous example . There is a similar case in India as the left winged extremists abduct children for the same purpose . In the UAE there have been many recent cases of abduction of young children from the Indian subcontinent to become camel jockeys .There was a recent incident when the owner of a camel beat his young Bangladeshi jockey because he underperformed.