SOCIAL PROBLEMS Social problems‚ also called social issues‚ affect every society‚ great and small. Even in relatively isolated‚ sparsely populated areas‚ a group will encounter social problems. Part of this is due to the fact that any members of a society living close enough together will have conflicts. It’s virtually impossible to avoid them‚ and even people who live together in the same house don’t always get along seamlessly. On the whole though‚ when social problems are mentioned they tend
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In China‚ women and children are used for arranged marriages‚ labor and sexual exploitation. In Cambodia‚ they are taken for sex workers‚ and prostitution‚ “Studies indicate that 15-32% fo sexs workers in Cambodia are of Vietnamese origin” (UNIAP Vietnam‚ 1). Most of the people who work as sex workers in Cambodia are Vietnamese people
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The Situation of Filipino Children and Young People Almost half of the population in the Philippines are children. With a fast population growth a year‚ the government has a difficult task in providing children with enough resources to ensure their rights. For many adults and children‚ a 15-year-old who bears a child willingly or unwillingly ceases to be a girl-child but a young mother. An 11-year-old who takes on the task of tilling the fields ceases to be a boy but a labouring farmhand. A 16-year-old
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Animal rights and animal welfare fall at different points on a continuum that runs from animal liberation at one end to animal exploitation at the other. The animal rights viewpoint can be defined as the belief that humans do not have the right to use animals for their own gainin the laboratory‚ on the farm‚ in entertainment or in the wild. The degree to which humans may benefit from any use of nonhuman animals is irrelevant to determine how animals should be treated. The animal welfare viewpoint
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Human Trafficking Robert Gordon‚ Lanisha Griffin‚ Lucette Lemesh‚ Jessica Stewart‚ Tanya Castello BSHS 302 06/20/2011 Bejai Higgins There are many negative effects on the mental health of victims of human trafficking. Human trafficking is one of the most demoralizing acts that are committed on a human being. Victims of this heinous crime are made to feel as though they are not worthy of decency‚ respect‚ or love. When a victim of human trafficking is rescued and seeks out services
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Towards a National Child Labour Action Programme for South Africa Discussion Document October 2002 Discussion document Prepared for the Department of Labour by Dawie Bosch & Associates Funded by the International Labour Organisation’s (ILO) International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC) for use in the consultative process towards a national child labour programme for South Africa. Core team members Dawie Bosch‚ Debbie Budlender‚ Sam Tshabalala
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I found two articles today that highlight how women can – and do – change the world. In Africa‚ there was a recent meeting of women who work in development to help spur gender equality throughout the continent and embed equality into development practices. Uganda has passed legislation stipulating that a third of the seats in parliament and local authorities should be occupied by women. Now‚ 29.8 percent of legislative seats are in female hands‚ according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
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is also a destination on trafficking innocent lives especially the children for the purpose of commercial sexual exploitation business (Persons Report‚ 2009). So what is child trafficking? According to the Britannica Encyclopedia‚ child trafficking can be best defined as an illegal activity involving underage children who are being used in both reproductive slavery and sexual exploitation business. In a latest statistic released by the International Labour Organization‚ it showed that the child traffickers
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can occur within a country or may involve movement across borders. It affects all regions and most countries of the world. Women‚ men and children are trafficked for a range of purposes‚ including forced and exploitative labor (slavery)‚ sexual exploitation‚ and forced marriage. This is an extremely important issue and an even more serious violation to fundamental human rights like right to life‚ right to liberty‚ right to freedom‚ etc.. UNHCR is involved in prevention through encouraging countries
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Human trafficking is considered and defined as one of the modern form of slavery. It is one form of human exploitation where a victim is controlled through fruad or force to contribute forced labour. The majority of human being trafficked are subject to sexual abuse in developed or developing countries. The human trafficking shows a worrying trend with cases increasing every year. This paper in its extensive review discovered that the trend is rapidly increasing mainly in developing countries. Considering
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