Raids said to rescue 29 child slaves
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Police in central China have rescued 217 people, including 29 children, who had been forced to work as slaves at brick kilns, official media reported yesterday. More than 35,000 officers were mobilized to raid 7,500 kilns in Henan province during a three-day campaign that ended Tuesday, the Xinhua News Agency reported. They detained 120 suspects, it said. ...
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The head of Massachusetts' social services on Monday called for the release of 20 factory workers arrested in an immigration raid, saying many have children with no one else to care for them.
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Representatives from about 50 countries will gather in Paris this week to search for ways to demobilize and rehabilitate the world's estimated 250,000 child soldiers.
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The United Nations said on Tuesday it was concerned children orphaned or separated from their parents by Asia's tsunami may be falling prey to criminal gangs bent on selling them into slavery.
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Dozens of young children were stranded at schools and with baby-sitters after their parents were rounded up by federal authorities who raided a leather goods maker suspected of hiring illegal immigrants, authorities said Wednesday.
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LONDON - Police smashed a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, authorities said Monday.  Some 200 suspects are based in Britain, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Center said.
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At least seven children have been killed in flood-related incidents across Kenya, where aid agencies are scrambling to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by torrential rains, police said.
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Three people are charged with smuggling 29 children to the United States for adoption, say police in Sierra Leone.
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Slavery is booming in South Asia, with  hundreds of thousands of women and children being trafficked  and sold or forced into the sex trade or domestic service each  year, UNICEF warned on Wednesday.
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Boys and girls are being recruited in record numbers, international charity Save the Children said Monday
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The United Nations expressed concern about child trafficking in Mozambique on Thursday after police intercepted a lorry carrying 39 children near the border with Zimbabwe.
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Police smashed a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, British authorities said Monday.Some 200 suspects are based in the United Kingdom, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection center said. The ring was traced to an Internet chat room called 'Kids the Light of Our Lives' that featured images of children being subjected to horrific sexual abuse. Read more
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Police in Kenya seize 11 "miracle babies" for DNA tests after allegations of child trafficking.
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Police have raided a suspected training camp of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the south of the Netherlands, arresting 29 people.
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LONDON - Police shattered a global Internet pedophile ring, rescuing 31 children and rounding up more than 700 suspects worldwide, British authorities said Monday.  Some 200 suspects are based in the United Kingdom, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection center said.
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The number of city kids who have died from abuse or neglect this year is up an alarming 57%, officials said yesterday. Some 58 kids died from suspected maltreatment during the first nine months
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Police in the Netherlands arrested 29 people during a raid at an alleged training camp of the Kurdistan Workers Party. The party, known by the initials PKK, recently