- Target:
- CHINA
- Region:
- Philippines
What is child abuse?
Child abuse includes any threatening or violent interaction of physical, psychological or sexual nature that may cause physical or psychological harm to the child. This includes neglect and withholding essential aid, medical care and education. Sexual and physical abuse are forms of physical violence; in addition, forms of mental abuse also exist. Forced marriage at a very young age and ritual circumcision of girls are also forms of child abuse. Children have the right to protection from all forms of maltreatment, abuse, neglect and violence.
What is the impact of the fight against child abuse?
In the last few years we achieved the following results:
In Bangladesh Terre des Hommes was part of a succesfull lobby for child rights. As a result new legislation to prevent child marriage was implemented.
In Bolivia new legislation was implemented to prevent sexual abuse and improve care for victims.
To fight the high number of child marriages our Tanzanian programme was expanded to the Kahama/Shinyanga region.
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The CHILD ABUSE petition to CHINA was written by cris and is in the category Civil Rights at GoPetition.