That Many Kids Cant Just Disappear
By: lynthomas | Posted: 18th May 2009
A novelty bar sign, kids for sale, was posted on ebay in a miserable try at humour, for a condition that is devastating families on a global scale. The fact is every 30 seconds a child goes missing!
Huge numbers of children go missing everyday right across the world, in the constantly growing worldwide pattern of child trafficking. The United Nations reports that approximately 6 million children were sold into slavery in 2007. With over 50 million children worldwide, remaining unregistered at birth it ever increasingly difficult to stem the traffic flow.
"The unconditional worst forms of child labour are considered forced and bonded labour, trafficking, the sex industry, prostitution and pornography, children being used as soldiers. There are numerous other forms of exploitation as well, but still the most common is the sex trade", says Pamela Shifman from UNICEF.
•An average of 2,185 children are reported missing every day in the United States
•In India exact figures are not available, however, an English daily newspaper reports, the number of missing children is in the region of 10 million annually, i.e. every 30 seconds a child goes missing. If you also take in the number of lost and abducted children, the number is staggering
•Parents are outraged in southern China, with the disappearance of hundreds of children. They say the authorities have done very little to try to locate their children, or determine what may have happened to them
•In Haiti you can buy a child for as low as $110
•Children, as young as 10 years old, are trafficked in Europe as soccer players
•In Yemen children are sold for a fistful of dollars
•Vast numbers of black African children are sold in Britain
•In Delhi a raid rescued children from a sweatshop that involved a United States giant clothing manufacturer
Boys were taken, in India, and sold to childless friends of the kidnappers. Four-year-old Tang Duowen was sold for 27,000 yuan (U.S. $3,970). Tang was let go when he refused to stop crying, officials said. Wen was sold for 40,000 yuan (U.S. $5,882). Of all the children who go missing every year, only 10% are ever recovered.
In Jharkhand, India, police said to parents of missing children, "You took money. You sent your child to work. Now you go get the child back". The police are not ready to accept that a crime may have been committed.
The question needs to be asked, are these children:
•Kidnapped to be sold for organ harvesting
•Kidnapped to be sold into slave labour in sweat shops, construction, mines, agriculture, or domestic service
•Kidnapped for adoption
•Kidnapped into gangs
•Kidnapped or sold into debt bondage
•Kidnapped or coerced into becoming suicide bombers in the army
•Kidnapped to be sold into prostitution
•Kidnapped to be used in exorcism rites
Many of the children suffer from malnutrition, are abused and tortured. While some are kidnapped, others are sold by poor parents. It is estimated that 8.4.million children work in the worst forms of child labour.
The question needs to be addressed: Who then is watching the kids?
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