International Business News - Children http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Tourists who go abroad to abuse children should face the prospect of prosecution in their home countries if they are caught having sex with kids in nations with lax penalties, participants at a U.N.-backed conference concluded Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/un-forum-backs-harsher-penalties-for-sex-tourists.htm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:20:53 EST More poor children may be driven into the sex trade as a result of the world financial crisis and the spreading use of the Internet by predators to find victims, participants at a U.N.-backed conference said Wednesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/un-governments-face-challenges-fighting-sex-abuse.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:42:35 EST A sport utility vehicle has struck and injured several people--including at least two children--outside a suburban Los Angeles elementary school. One is listed as critically injured. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081126/suv-hits-kids-outside-suburban-los-angeles-school.htm Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:34:57 EST Afghanistan's security forces and insurgent groups are both recruiting children to serve as fighters and the Taliban also is using young people as suicide bombers, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/un-afghan-children-being-recruited-as-fighters.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:16:12 EST A former New York City corrections officer has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his two children--one of them a toddler who was in her high chair when she was shot. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/ny-man-who-killed-his-2-kids-gets-life-in-prison.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:55:07 EST Thirty-one Nobel Peace Prize recipients have joined with the non-profit group Save the Children in calling for help for millions of children trapped in war zones around the world. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/save-the-children-renews-call-to-help.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:19:10 EST The closest 9-year-old Ruan Gamibeb has come to war is the fighting he sees on the news at night, when his family gathers around the television to watch Congo's latest horrors. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/178783-namibia-african-children.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/african-countries-ranked-for-child-friendliness.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/african-countries-ranked-for-child-friendliness.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:17:55 EST Nepalese police allegedly tortured children in their custody, an international rights group said, calling the practice widespread and asking the government to punish the officers involved. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/rights-group-nepal-police-beat-children.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:26:10 EST Federal authorities have compromised the rights and safety of some unaccompanied illegal immigrant children they have detained, and inadequate government guidelines are partly to blame, according to a Texas-based research group. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081114/report-illegal-immigrant-minors-mistreated-by-us.htm Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:36:47 EST Rebecca Nyiringindi scanned the sprawling refugee camp in eastern Congo, searching for just one person among the thousands of hungry and homeless. "My mother's name is Alphonsine," the 10-year-old said softly, sucking her thumb. "She's short. She's very dark." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/174537-aptopix-congo-fighting.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081113/children-separated-from-parents-by-congo-violence.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081113/children-separated-from-parents-by-congo-violence.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:51:09 EST Roma children face severe discrimination in the Czech Republic and are still being segregated into schools for those with mental disabilities, a rights group said Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081113/gypsy-kids-herded-into-czech-schools-for-disabled.htm Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:04:30 EST Prosecutors in Los Angeles say they will seek the death penalty for a man accused of burning his two children to death. The county district attorney's office said Wednesday it will seek the sentence if a jury convicts 57-year-old Dae Kwon Yun. He has pleaded not guilty to two murder counts with special circumstances. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081105/death-penalty-sought-for-la-man-in-child-burnings.htm Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:36:17 EST A house fire killed three young brothers during the night and critically injured their grandmother, who was overcome with smoke when she apparently tried to rescue them, authorities said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/3-young-upstate-ny-boys-killed-in-house-fire.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:08:54 EST They wail and yell to show their distress: the youngest victims of eastern Congo's latest eruption of violence have no other way to say they're famished, sick and weary. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081102/children-bear-brunt-of-congos-humanitarian-crisis.htm Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:31:14 EST More than 600 adults have been arrested and 47 children rescued in a three-day roundup targeting people who force children into prostitution. The FBI said the roundup by federal, state and local law enforcement occurred in 29 cities, adding that the raids dismantled 12 large-scale prostitution operations run through call services, truck stops, casinos and Web sites. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081027/fbi-child-prostitution-roundup-snares-over-600.htm Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:09:30 EDT Six people were convicted of child abuse Friday in a case where two young brothers were put in a cage and tortured by their mother. Judge Pavel Goeth sentenced the mother to nine years in prison and her sister--who was said to have incited the torture--to 10 years. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081024/6-people-convicted-of-caging-torturing-czech-boys.htm Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:32:57 EDT Graca Machel, a Mozambican human rights campaigner and the country's former first lady, appealed to schools Saturday to take more action to prevent children being kidnapped and sold into prostitution. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081011/machel-schools-must-act-against-trafficking.htm Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:11:14 EDT When Nebraska lawmakers passed a unique "safe-haven" law that allowed parents to abandon children as old as 19, they never seriously thought such dropoffs would become common. But their worst fears have come true: At least 16 children, some of them teenagers, have been abandoned since the law took effect in July. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/140084-children-safe-haven.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080927/neb-lawmakers-consider-revising-safe-haven-law.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080927/neb-lawmakers-consider-revising-safe-haven-law.htm Sat, 27 Sep 2008 02:25:07 EDT When Nebraska lawmakers passed a unique "safe-haven" law that allowed parents to abandon children as old as 19, they never seriously thought such dropoffs would become common. But their worst fears have come true: At least 16 children, some of them teenagers, have been abandoned since the law took effect in July. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/140000-children-safe-haven.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/neb-dad-who-left-9-kids-says-he-was-overwhelmed.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080926/neb-dad-who-left-9-kids-says-he-was-overwhelmed.htm Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:25:29 EDT Nine siblings are among 11 children as old as 17 who were left at Omaha hospitals Wednesday under Nebraska's unique and new safe haven law, which allows caregivers to abandon babies and teenagers alike at hospitals without fear of prosecution. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/138706-children-safe-haven.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/father-drops-off-9-kids-under-neb-safe-haven-law.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080925/father-drops-off-9-kids-under-neb-safe-haven-law.htm Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:44:35 EDT