{"id":4240,"date":"2010-12-03T12:23:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T11:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4240"},"modified":"2010-12-03T12:24:57","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T11:24:57","slug":"combating-child-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4240","title":{"rendered":"Combating child slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers around child slavery and exploitation are simply staggering and there aren&#8217;t enough people fighting back.<\/p>\n<p>More than 150 million children younger than 14 years-old are child labourers &#8211;  one in six children in the world. Those children do hazardous work in  mines or on farms, often handling chemicals and pesticides or working  near dangerous machinery. Others toil as domestic servants in homes or  workshops.<\/p>\n<p>Another 300,000 children under 18 are child soldiers used as combatants, messengers, porters, cooks, or sexual servants in  some 30 conflicts worldwide. They are most often forcibly recruited or  abducted, or feel so helpless and overwhelmed by poverty they are driven  to join the fight.<\/p>\n<p>Girls are particularly vulnerable. Some as young as 13 are trafficked as &#8220;mail-order brides.&#8221; Nearly 90%  of domestic workers trafficked in West and Central Africa are girls.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an epidemic that isn&#8217;t receiving enough attention from governments worldwide. You can help to change that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.change.org\/petitions\/view\/help_stop_child_trafficking_and_exploitation?alert_id=UZJXoDQhhM_XnTeICIDWI&amp;amp;me=aa&quot; target=&quot;_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The numbers around child slavery and exploitation are simply staggering and there aren&#8217;t enough people fighting back. More than 150 million children younger than 14 years-old are child labourers &#8211; one in six children in the world. Those children do hazardous work in mines or on farms, often handling chemicals and pesticides or working near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4240"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4244,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4240\/revisions\/4244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}