2. “ Children are the World’s most valuable resources
”
& it’s best hope for the Future.
-- John F Kennedy

3. BUT
“ Children,by any negative factors in their environment. Global warming,
harmed
because of their size, innocence and vulnerability are more easily
pollution, hunger, war and disease are some of the larger problems
that face children all over the world and they are more affected by
those problems than are adults.
”

4. “ There is no trust more sacred than the one the
world holds with children. There is no duty more
important than ensuring that their rights are
respected, that their welfare is protected, that
their lives are free from fear and want and that
they can grow up in peace.
” -- Kofi Annan
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5. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
“ responsibility of adults to protect itthem and
Childrenare the future and is the
ensure that they get the best footing in life.
Unfortunately this is not always the case in
many nations around the world.
”

6. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
1. MILITARY USE OF CHILDREN

7. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
1. Military Use of Children
“ They camefather saidand my father saidanyway," have the money. They asked me to go
to collect he didn't
with them. My no. They took me
” - former FARC child soldier.
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8. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
1. Military Use of Children
Approximately 250,000 children under the age of 18 are thought to be
fighting in conflicts around the world, and hundreds of thousands more are
members of armed forces who could be sent into combat at any time.
As per the UNICEF reports there are 2 million children killed; 4-5 million
disabled; 12 million left homeless; more than 1 million orphaned or
separated from their parents; some 10 million psychologically traumatized.
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9. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
2. TRAFFICKING AND SLAVERY

10. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
2. TRAFFICKING AND SLAVERY
“ ALTHOUGH he is the harsh years old,ofShakheelashas
already learnt
barely five
reality life a
professional jockey: a deep scar runs up his stomach
from a fall suffered in one race and his leg was
broken when he was knocked from his mount during
another.
”
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11. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
2. TRAFFICKING AND SLAVERY
“ Trafficking consists ofinvolvinginvolved in the recruitment ordebt bondage oroffraud, for the
within or across borders,
all acts
deception, coercion or force,
transportation persons
purpose of placing persons in situations of abuse or exploitation, such as forced prostitution,
slavery-like practices, battering or extreme cruelty, sweatshop labor or exploitative domestic
services.
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12. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
2. TRAFFICKING AND SLAVERY
“ According to UNICEF, over 200,000 children workplantationsinwhile girls are used Africa.
Boys are usually sold to work on cotton and cocoa
as slaves West and Central
as
domestic servants and prostitutes. In some cases, children are kidnapped outright and sold
”
into slavery while in others, families sell their children, mostly girls, for as little as $14.
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13. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
3. INTERNET CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

14. “Ohas low as 12samefemales, where the age of consent
is
really, the
for
Europe
and where Denmark is
Europe's largest producers of child pornography. That
is moral hypocrisy.
Sounds to me like Europe doesn't have a child
pornography problem because young ladies 12 - 14
years old aren't considered children.
”
-- Hworta
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
3. INTERNET CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
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15. The internet is a virtual playground for child predators.
It is a place that operates largely outside of the law.
While trading in pedophile pornography is illegal, lack of adequate
funding means law enforcement officials are able to investigate just two
percent of their leads.
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MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
3. INTERNET CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

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One source of child pornography
distributed worldwide is that
created by sex tourists. Most of
the victims of child sex tourism
reside in the developing
countries of the world.
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
3. INTERNET CHILD PORNOGRAPHY

17. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
4. CHILD LABOR

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CHILDREN TODAY
4. CHILD LABOR
Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound
together and if you continue to use the labor
of children as the treatment for the social
disease of poverty, you will have both
poverty and child labor to the end of time.
-- Grace Abbott
“
”

19. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
4. CHILD LABOR
“
”
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20. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
4. CHILD LABOR
“ About 246 million children ages 5 to 17
worldwide are involved in child labor - about
1 out of every 6 children in the world. Nearly
three-quarters of the world's child laborers,
about 180 million children, are exposed to the
worst forms of child labor - that is, work that
is hazardous for children.
Some 110 million children in hazardous work
are under age 15. Some estimated 8.4 million
children are trapped in the most abhorrent
forms of child labor - slavery, trafficking,
debt bondage, prostitution, pornography and
other such activities.
”
“By the way in 2008 Slave Traders made
more money than Google, Nike and
Starbucks combined.”
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21. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
5. CHILD PROSTITUTION

22. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
5. CHILD PROSTITUTION
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23. “
”
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
5. CHILD PROSTITUTION
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24. Prostitution of children (or child prostitution) is a form of commercial sexual
exploitation of children in which a child performs the services of prostitution, most
often for the financial benefit of an adult.
The term is widely used to describe prostitution of prepubescent or pubescent children,
however In legal definitions, the term usually refers to prostitution by a minor, or
person under the local age of majority. The form of child prostitution in which adults
travel to foreign countries for the purposes of avoiding local laws is known as child sex
tourism.
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
5. CHILD PROSTITUTION
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25. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
6. CHILD NEGLECT

26. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
6. CHILD NEGLECT
“ Iwouldangrymy motherfactathat my father
was
beat
about the
on daily basis, that
my mother would take it in turn and beat on
me. I was an abused child. I was mad about
all those things, very bitter and very angry.
”
-- Rick James
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27. "Neglected Child" means a child less than 18 years of age whose physical, mental or
emotional condition has been impaired or is in danger of becoming impaired as a result
of the failure of the child's legal guardian to exercise a minimum degree of care in
supplying the child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, or education or medical care.
Neglect also occurs when the legal guardian fails to provide the child with proper
supervision or guardianship by allowing the child to be harmed, or to be at risk of harm
which includes when the guardian misuses drugs or alcohol him/herself.
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
6. CHILD NEGLECT
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28. “ In theofUK there has casesalately. Youmean a
LOT) child abuse
been lot (and I
may
know about baby Peter (Baby P) who was
killed by his mothers boyfriend and
lodger. There was a terrible case here in
Dundee earlier this year when a toddler was
beaten to death by his mothers
boyfriend. Social services failed horrendously
in nearly all cases reported over the years, and
now the courts seem to be going in the same
direction.
I can't imagine what is going to happen before
something is done about these people. Not
just the parents,/partners/abusers, but the
authorities and courts. It seems that it's all too
easy to abuse and kill your children and not
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
suffer too much yourself.
” -- Jeffaholic
(http://nicko62.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=3830647)
6. CHILD NEGLECT
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29. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
7. Lack of Access to Education

30. Economic and political conditions often make getting an education
impossible for children around the world.
Families may require their sons and daughters to work so that they have
enough money to survive or even sell their children for labor, sex, or
adoption because money is too tight. In other cases, obligatory school fees
may prove prohibitive. Discrimination, attacks on secular schools,
displacement as a result of war or persecution, and other conditions are
often to blame.
In short, despite the fact that a basic education has been recognized as
every child's right ... far too many children are not only left behind but left
veritably in the dark.
--Arielle Eirienne
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
7. Lack of Access to Education
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31. a) More than 100 million children do not have access to
school.
b) Of the children who enroll in primary school, over
150 million drop out, while user fees, including
levies, are still charged for access to education in 92
countries and that such charges have impact on
excluding girls.
c) 77 million children worldwide are not able to go to
school due to lack of funds.
d) For socially disadvantaged segments of the
population like poor inhabitants of cities, AIDS
orphans and the physically challenged, any access
to education is often particularly difficult to obtain.
e) The consequence of this lack of access to
education is that 15 percent of those adolescents
between 15 and 24 in third world countries are
illiterate.
f) It is generally believed that girls are often
discouraged from attending primary schooling,
especially in less developed countries for religious
and cultural reasons.
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
7. Lack of Access to Education
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32. “
”
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
7. Lack of Access to Education
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33. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
8. Child’s Life as Refugees

34. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
8. Child’s Life as Refugees
Chad - Darfur Crisis - Sudanese Refugees
A young Sudanese refugee from war-torn
Darfur lies dying on the floor of an aid station
in Gureida, Chad. Over 200,000 Sudanese
native to the Darfur province of Sudan have
fled to neighboring Chad as violence and
ethnic cleansing continue in the volatile
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region despite efforts by the International
Community and the United Nations to bring
about an end to the conflict.

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MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
8. Child’s Life as Refugees
a) Of the 50 million refugees and displaced
people in the world, approximately half
are children.
b) War is the primary factor in the creation
of child refugees. It is also a principle
cause of child death, injury, and loss of
parents.
c) In the last decade, war has killed more
than 2 million children, wounded another
6 million, and orphaned about 1 million.

36. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
8. Child’s Life as Refugees
“ In countries where persecution andflee their
homes because of
people have to
violence,
political solutions must be found, peace and
tolerance restored, so that refugees can
return home. In my experience, going home
” Jolie
is the deepest wish of most refugees.
-- Angelina

37. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
9. POVERTY

38. a) According to UNICEF, 25,000 children die each day due to poverty.
b) Around 27-28 percent of all children in developing countries are estimated to be underweight
or stunted.
c) The two regions that account for the bulk of the deficit are South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa..
d) Some 1.1 billion people in developing countries have inadequate access to water, and 2.6 billion
lack basic sanitation.
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e) Almost two in three people lacking access to clean water.
f) Millions of parents in developing countries must daily cope with the fact that their children
may not survive the first critical years of life; in many cases, the diseases that threaten their
children’s lives are preventable.
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
9. Poverty

39. It is a tragic mix-up when the United
States spends $ 500,000 for every enemy
soldier killed, and only $ annually on the
53
victims of poverty.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
9. Poverty

40. “ Let ustowork in partnerships betweenall and
poor improve the opportunities of
rich
human beings to build better lives."
”
-- Kofi Annan
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
9. Poverty

41. MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
10. VIOLENCE THROUGH INDOCTRINATION

42. As captured on an Israeli video documentary produced in 1998, a “Sesame
Street”-like children’s program called the “Children’s Club” — complete with
puppet shows, songs, Mickey Mouse and other characters — focused on
inculcating intense hatred of Jews and a passion for engaging in and celebrating
violence against them in a perpetual “jihad” until the day the Israeli flags come
down from above “Palestinian land” and the Palestinian flag is raised.
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
10. VIOLENCE THROUGHINDOCTRINATION
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43. As captured on an Israeli video documentary produced in 1998, a “Sesame
Street”-like children’s program called the “Children’s Club” — complete with
puppet shows, songs, Mickey Mouse and other characters — focused on
inculcating intense hatred of Jews and a passion for engaging in and celebrating
violence against them in a perpetual “jihad” until the day the Israeli flags come
down from above “Palestinian land” and the Palestinian flag is raised.
MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
10. VIOLENCE THROUGHINDOCTRINATION
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This is one example which shows that Palestinian children are taught to hate
Jews, to glorify “jihad” (holy war), violence, death and child martyrdom almost
from birth, as an essential part of their culture and destiny.

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MOST TERRIBLE ISSUES FACED BY THE
CHILDREN TODAY
10. VIOLENCE THROUGHINDOCTRINATION
a) In few Madrasas, Islamic schools for study of pure Islamic religion, the culprits are the religious
teachers; and the victims include helpless innocent underage students.
b) Child torture incidents in these madrasas are reported mostly in Pakistan, Afghanistan and
Sudan.
c) The number of students are estimated somewhere between eight hundred thousands to one
million.
d) They are often run by religious organizations and lure young children mainly from poor
families by providing free food and lodging.
e) Some of the schools even provide intensive political and armed training.

45. Made you Think?
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46. It is hard to believe that these situations still occur, but learning about
them is a good way to start trying to help.
Let’s all find out the real Santa in ourselves & lend a hand to someone who
needs it desperately.

47. It is hard to believe that these situations still occur, but learning about
them is a good way to start trying to help.
Let’s all find out the real Santa in ourselves & lend a hand to someone who
needs it desperately.
This Christmas let’s show the true spirit of the
festival.

48. It is hard to believe that these situations still occur, but learning about
them is a good way to start trying to help.
Let’s all find out the real Santa in ourselves & lend a hand to someone who
needs it desperately.
This Christmas let’s show the true spirit of the
festival.
Calling for the Real Santa’s in You!
Yes…. YOU.

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