This section includes news related to children's care in the context of the current humanitarian crisis affecting the Gaza region. This section is updated regularly.
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Human Rights Watch has extensively documented human rights violations relating to attacks on education, women and girls’ rights, the situation of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers, child labor, and the judicial execution and ill-treatment of child offenders. This submission proposes issues and questions that Committee members may wish to raise with the government.
This article from Haaretz discusses the increasing problem of child labor in Israel. According to the article, children are taken from their homes through an agreement with their parents and forced to beg at highway intersections for up to 12 hours a day.
This article, from Time, describes the efforts of the Israeli government to evacuate babies of Israeli parents - born to surrogate mothers in Nepal - in the aftermath of the recent earthquake.
Due to increasing incidents of violence, exploitation, neglect, and abuse of children, the government, NGOs, INGOs, and UN agencies have taken several steps to protect the children in the country.
Two baby girls were given over to new adoptive parents live on a television program in Pakistan. The host claims that the babies were not given away as a ploy for ratings, but to unite children in need of a home with new parents looking to welcome them.