Violence against child

In the list of the groups most vulnerable to abuse and exploitation of children, in this context was the recent United Nations report on the situation of children in the world reflect the deteriorating global level for children, and violence against them in all parts of the world.

Although the report aimed to reveal ways in which to promote children's rights in the world, but we checked many of the descriptions of the practices of violence against them in many places of the world.

Through field studies , expanding questionnaires government around the world, and certificates for certain children, The report presents many forms of violence through different social frameworks include: the family, schools, alternative care institutions and places where children working , in addition to the use of children in armed conflict.

The report reveals that between 80 to 98 per cent of the world's children suffer physical punishment in their homes, and a third are facing severe physical punishment resulting from the use of violent physical punishment.

In addition to direct physical punishment, which may leave the physical effects are unclear or does not leave any traces. The report also pointed to the physical intimidation which is faced by children. It is the most serious presentation of the report that sexual abuse against children, the report referred to approximately 150 million girls and 73 million boys under eighteen years old suffered from forced sexual relations, or any other form of sexual violence.

children labour An important aspect addressed in the report, according to recent estimates of the ILO that 218 million children in 2004 had entered the field of employment, of whom approximately 126 million children in dangerous work. According to some estimates from 2000 suggest that 5.7 million children were working in forced labour or bonded labour, 1.8 million in prostitution and pornography, and 1.2 million were victims of trafficking.

it also reveals the breadth of social contexts in which engaged in violence against children. The report begins with the family that is considered the most important social units, which will start in which children face physical violence, sexual and psychological. it indicates that the number of children who are exposed to domestic violence each year ranging from the 133 million children and 275 million children around the world.

The report does not stop only when the family and the school as social units as the most influential and important in the lives of children, but it goes beyond that to other community-based units of the legislative, judicial and executive. it finds that violence against children requires unity of the forces, social institutions, both formal and informal in order to eliminate this phenomenon, or, at most, to reduce them.

Although is frustrating provided by the UN report, it highlights some positive aspects for the protection of children, which include the signing of one hundred and ninety-two countries and the international Convention on the Rights of the Child, the strict measures taken by many countries concerning child labour, and the large role the influential played by the media of contemporary to raise awareness and disseminate information and mobilize society for the protection of children.