Morocco child maids toil for pittance, face abuse
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Five years ago Khadija's mother sent her 8-year old daughter to work as a housemaid in the city, where her first employer beat her.
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MADRID, Oct 30  (IPS) - Authorities and civil society organisations in  Spain have roundly condemned an apparent case of trafficking of  children from Chad. But they defend the innocence of the seven  Spanish crew members of a plane chartered by the French charity  L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) to remove 103 children from  the country in north-central Africa.
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Fatima Tlisova had been beaten, harassed and, she suspects, poisoned while working as a journalist in Russia. But she finally decided to flee the country the day she sent her 16-year-old son on an errand last year and he didn't come back.
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A family with red hair claim they have been forced to move home twice because of "bullies".
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Â· Children among captives forced to work for no payÂ· Local officials accused of colluding with traffickers
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Text of unattributed report: "Western Sahara: Morocco censoring pro-Sahrawi internet sites", published Algerian newspaper Liberte website on 3 February  The Kingdom of Morocco is undertaking more and more coercive measures.
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More than half the world's children face a brutal existence because of poverty, war and Aids, says Unicef.
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In places like Congo and Kosovo, peacekeepers have been accused of abusing the people they're protecting.
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Once again, Lebanon's children are seeing what they shouldn't &#151; visions of death and destruction that may scar them for life. And those are the survivors.
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ROME When a 9-year-old Somali girl named Asma arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa in a rickety boat full of illegal immigrants earlier this year, she was in shock.
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The scandal over a French group  suspected of trying to smuggle African children to Europe from  Chad may harm the image of foreign aid workers seeking to help  refugees fleeing violence, U.N. officials said on Monday.
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Iraqi children are haunted by dreams of bad guys wielding knives or kidnapping relatives. For some, like 13-year-old Zaman, the nightmares become reality. She was abducted, beaten and threatened with rape.
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Authorities are examining a photo taken in Morocco showing a child who appears to resemble missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, a spokesman for the girl's family told CNN Wednesday.
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Child malnutrition in Somalia is at critical levels due to violence and lack of access for aid workers, the U.N. children's agency said on Wednesday.
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Children in Sudan, especially in the Darfur region, continue to be abducted for use in battle, forced labor or sexual exploitation, a U.N. human rights body said on Friday.
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A young Cuban girl at the heart of an international custody battle was beaten and abused by her mother, who also threatened to kill herself with a knife, the girl's older half brother told a judge Tuesday.
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On the eve of the second anniversary of the death of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, a new report finds that higher caseloads have overwhelmed Family Court, where abuse and neglect cases are decided.