UN Expert Urges Measures To Protect Children From Sale, Sexual Abuse In Honduras

[Judi Lynn]

Source: UN News

UN Urges Protection of Honduran Children From Sale, Abuse
Tuesday, 29 April 2014, 11:45 am Press Release: UN News
UN Expert Urges Measures To Protect Children From Sale, Sexual Abuse In Honduras
New York, Apr 28 2014 12:00PM

Honduras must immediately adopt measures to effectively protect children, without discrimination, from all forms of violence, abuse and exploitation, an independent United Nations human rights expert has urged.

Najat Maalla M’jid, the UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, said that since her first official visit to the country two years ago, the number of complaints related to sexual exploitation and abuse, early pregnancy, sale, trafficking and child labour have increased.

“Many children are at risk of falling victim [to] exploitation and abuse because the same risk factors that I signalled two years ago persist,” she stated following her five-day visit to Tegucigalpa, where she met with government and civil society representatives, and visited two centres for children run by the Honduran Institute for Children and the Family (IHNFA) and the Casa Alianza charity.

The risk factors include poverty, unemployment, insecurity, violence and proliferation of firearms, and migration.

Read more: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1404/S00286/un-urges-protection-of-honduran-children-from-sale-abuse.htm

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Look how well things turned out after Honduras' 1% overthrew the elected President and had him kidnapped at gunpoint, flown in his pajamas out of the country and dumped in Nicaragua.

[freshwest]

1. Agreed. Interesting list there. Sounds familar:

The risk factors include poverty, unemployment, insecurity, violence and proliferation of firearms, and migration.

Not sure why 'migration' is part of the picture, though. I used to talk a woman from the USA who moved there with her husband's family to raise her children. She said many Americans lived there.

She was Libertarian and railed against the public schools and taxes. Didn't care who was in charge as long his family and her kids did alright. Resented all the people striking to try to maintain their civil society. And said that democracy was mob rule and that only certain people should be in charge.

But she finally left to come back to the USA, not from the violence or anything else, it was family matrers. She was not well off but had a maid. There is always somone worse off than you.

There are expats who have moved to C.A. ad say it's okay with them. I hope the UN can help these children being ignored, but the root of this is poverty no one wants to do anything about.

[red dog 1]

2. K&R...Thanks for posting

Unbelievable!