Human Rights Violations A Global Perspective Did you Know?

Children’s Rights – Child Abuse ● 40 million children below the age of 15 suffer from abuse and neglect.

Gang Violence ● Every city with a population greater than 250,000 reports gang activity. Subway Gangs of Mexico City

Human Trafficking ● Approximately 27 million people are currently enslaved in the human trafficking* trade around the world. 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year. That is 2,200 each day–over 91 people each hour. *Trafficking - the forced trade of humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor, or for the extraction of organs or tissues

Child Soldiers More than 300,000 children under the age of 18 are being exploited as child soldiers in armed conflicts worldwide. The following countries have reported use of child soldiers since 2011: Afghanistan, Colombia, India, Iraq, Israel, Libya, Mali, Pakistan, Thailand, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and more.

Death Penalty ● Even though two-thirds of the world has abolished the death penalty, 1,591 people were knowingly executed in 2006 alone. 91 percent of these penalties took place in China, Iran, Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan, and the U.S. ● Today, 140 countries have banned the death penalty in law or practice. ● In almost all of Europe, and most of South America, capital punishment* has been banished. Some countries where it still exists, Middle East, Asia, Africa, United States and the Caribbean. *Capital Punishment - or the death penalty is a legal process whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime

Genocide ● Genocide - the deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group ● Millions of people are internally and externally displaced in regions like Darfur where ethnic cleansing and violent conflict over land and resources occurs Darfur – a region in Sudan, Africa, has been the target of genocide. This deliberate killing of a large group of people, due to neglect by the government.

Censorship ● Several governments monitor their citizens’ Internet use and have censored or imprisoned them for freely expressing opinions in s, blogs and chat rooms. ● People in China have been arrested and charged for using the Internet as a tool to spread human rights information.

Child Labor ● There are approximately 246 million child laborers worldwide. ● One in every six children, ages 5 – 17, are involved in child labor. Asia accounts for 153 million and Africa 80 million ● Hundreds of thousands of children are employed as farm workers in the US. They often work 10 or more hours a day with sharp tools, heavy machinery, and dangerous pesticides. Thousands of children work in gold mines in Tanzania, Africa’s 4 th largest gold producer. They work in shifts for up to 24 hours and are exposed to high levels of mercury.

Women’s Rights ● Throughout history, women have been denied the knowledge, means, and freedom to act in the their and their children’s best interest. With the highest rates of maternal* mortality, poverty, poor education and wartime violence, the Democratic Republic of Congo ranks dead last for mothers. *Maternal – of or relating to a mother or a woman who is having a baby.

Review 1. T/F - Children are not affected by human rights violations. 2. T/F - Gang violence is not just in small, underprivileged inner cities. 3. The forced trade of humans around the world for sexual slavery, forced labor or extractions of organs is called:________. 4. T/F - Child soldiers no longer exist. It is illegal and does not occur anymore. 5. T/F - The death penalty still takes place in countries such as the Uniteds States and China. 6. The deliberate killing of people who belong to a particular ethnic, political or cultural group is called: ___________.

Review 7. T/F - Censorship violations are not considered human rights violations. 8. What are censorship violations? 9. T/F - Asia and Africa have some of the highest numbers of children involved in child labor. 10. T/F - Child labor does not occur in the United States. 11. T/F - Women’s Rights violations ended when women got the right to vote.

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