Child Rights
Sri Lanka
(TCHR is an independent Human Rights organisation – not affiliated to any Tamil Federation or Association)
An Appeal to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
Un appel à Nations Unies Commission des droits de l'homme
March 2006
LOGO
Tamil Centre for Human Rights - TCHR
Centre Tamoul pour les droits de l'Homme - CTDH
Centro Tamil para los Derechos Humanos
(Established in 1990)
Tamil
Centre for Human Rights - TCHR
Centre
Tamoul pour les droits de l'Homme - CTDH
Centro
Tamil para los Derechos Humanos
(Established
in 1990)
Website : www.tchr.net
TCHR participation in United Nations World conferences and other meetings
* A meeting was held on 7 March 2006, in the European Parliament – titled "EU contribution to the peace process in Sri Lanka". This was jointly organised by the Tamil Centre for Human Rights (TCHR) and Mr. Robert Evans, a member of European Parliament of Labour Party in UK.
* The Tamil Centre for Human Rights (TCHR) officially accredited to participate in the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society – WSIS in Tunisia, 16 – 18 November 2005.
* The Tamil Centre for Human Rights (TCHR), officially participated in the NGO forum of the UN World Conference Against Racism – WCAR in Durban, South Africa, from 28 August to 1 September 2001. TCHR held an information stall including an exhibition at the forum. The TCHR representatives also attended the main WCAR conference held in Durban, 31 August to 7 September 2001.
(http://www.tchr.net/reports_wcar_detail.htm)
* A meeting was held on 14 October 1998, in the European Parliament – titled "Press censorship in Sri Lanka". This was jointly organised by the Tamil Centre for Human Rights (TCHR) and Ms. Anita Pollack, a member of European Parliament of Labour Party in UK.
*
In 1993, the TCHR held an information stall and a
photo exhibition on human rights violations, in
the United Nations 2nd World
Conference on Human Rights held in Vienna, Austria, from
14-25 June.
*
TCHR has participated in meetings of Treaty bodies
and has submitted reports to the same.
Fact
finding missions to the North East of the Island of Sri Lanka
*
May 2003
(http://www.tchr.net/report_studymission_2003.htm)
*
December 2003 – addendum report
(http://www.tchr.net/report_studymission_2003add.htm)
*
July-August
2004
(http://www.tchr.net/reports_visite_2004.htm)
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Contents
Appeal 03
Rights of the Child 04
Rights of the child in International Law 05
The Sri Lanka government’s stance 06
Optional Protocol on children in armed conflicts (OP/AC)
Fact book on Global Sexual
Exploitation
07
100,000 children aged 6 to 14 kept in brothels in Sri Lanka 08
10,000 to 12,000 children are being prostituted in Sri Lanka
60 per cent of youth are drug
addicts
Child
trafficking and Labour in Sri
Lanka
250,000 between 500,000 child labourers in Sri Lanka 09
150,000 children employed as servants
Trafficking in Persons
More than 500 children missing after Tsunami
Women, children sexually abused after
tsunami
10
UN Special Rapporteur on children 11
Child Abuse and Child Prostitution in Sri Lanka
Pedophiles' Paradise
10,000 Child prostitutes in Sri Lanka 12
20,000 to 30,000 Child prostitutes in Sri Lanka
Youth prostitution on the rise
Complaints of sexual offences against CHILDREN received by police
One out of 10 children sexually abused
Child abuser's sex activities confirmed
Sri Lanka, hotbed for sexual exploitation of children 13
Sri Lanka notorious destination for homosexual paedophiles
40,000 child prostitutes, more than half of them boys
Beach boys –carriers of HIV/AIDS
Fighting child prostitution in Sri Lanka
Sickening - News of the World investigated 14
Rapists, abusers prey on disaster victims 15
Tsunami Unexpectedly Aids Child Sex Trade
Many Children still abused and neglected in Sri Lanka 16
Stemming child sexual abuse: NCPA's role 17
US State Department – Country report 2002, 2004 & 2005 2,070 complaints of violent crimes against children 18
2,000 child prostitutes in the country
7,000 boys aged 15-18 years are self-employed prostitutes
BBC World Service
'100 kids abused daily' in Sri Lanka – BBC 19
The year the children suffered – BBC
Sri Lanka 'Child abuse' arrests - BBC
Impact of 20 years of war on the Tamil children
50,000 children out of school in the affected region 20
Jaffna children suffer trauma – BBC
Mostly children killed
Navalay Church massacre 21
Kumarapuram Massacre 22
A school bombed in Jaffna - 42 children killed
Massacre of Tamil youths in a detention Centre 23
136,000 IDPs are children in the North-East 24
270,000 displaced children
Call to increased action for Sri Lanka's war affected children
Survey reveals alarming malnutrition in North East
Out of 16,000 children, only a quarter found properly nourished
16% of tsunami affected children malnourished 25
Save the Tamil Children of Sri Lanka
Caring for the children affected by war
Child soldiers
Security forces encourage 15 year old children to join the
army
26
Children under 18 in Home Guard duty and armed groups
Sri Lanka military lists 70,369 soldiers as
deserters
Child soldiers in the Sri Lanka
military
27
Child soldiers speak to the
media
Paramilitary recruits underage
boys
28
Child soldier issue is prioritised
"Decrease in recruitment and a rise in children being
released"
29
UNICEF expressed satisfaction
Some of the many children released
Significant decrease in child recruitment
Kanuna’s
cadre
TCHR report Dec
2004
30
Child soldiers, labour, prostitution and trafficking have similar causes
Human Rights Watch and its report on Sri Lanka 31
Political lobby in the Western cities
Two Americans kidnapped in Jaffna
Annexes
Child Soldiers and the Law - A Survey - Nadesan Satyendra
32
Child
Soldiers? What Child
Soldiers?
34
Child Recruitment 35
UNICEF and Underage Recruitment 37
Princeton Prof. says 'no' to Sri Lanka Child Monks 39