Poverty and corruption behind the growing phenomenon and activists call for action to deter child traffickers Gangs and government officials were invo

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Poverty and corruption behind the growing phenomenon and activists call for action to deter child traffickers

Gangs and government officials were involved trafficking of children in Iraq

Iraq News | 04-02-2011

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Student activists and academics in the field of child rights interest in providing a decent life and adequate protection for the children to curb the sale and trafficking of children abroad on the background information published by the Guardian newspaper on this growing phenomenon and subjecting children Alambain practices immoral and abnormal.

The Guardian, which highlighted the phenomenon of child trafficking in the new Iraq, revealed that 150 Iraqi children are sold on the black market annually is estimated to be between 200 and 4000 pounds per child.

According to the newspaper, it is subjecting these children to the practices of various humanitarian, including sexual practices are illegal and irregular, indicating that the inaction of the Iraqi authorities and not doing its duty to enforce the law on the street, on the one hand, and the state of idleness experienced by the border between Iraq and neighboring countries, the cause of the President Trade in vogue during which children are not only selling young age in the local market, but transferred abroad.

As a result of the popularity of this trade increased incidence of child abduction the kidnappers, who sell them later to meet a bunch of money, as organized crime gangs that specialized in the trade of children who grew up in Iraq to benefit members of the chaos that is still entrenched in the street.

Due to the lack of central authority is interested in putting an end to this phenomenon makes it difficult to obtain accurate figures for children who are sold annually, while police believe and associations concerned with human rights, that this trade has boomed and increased by one third since 2005, bringing the number of child victims of this trade to about 150 children in the year, the figure is an estimate not based on accurate statistics.

The Guardian quoted a senior Iraqi police officer level, that about 155 children are sold annually, within and outside Iraq, some of them in order of adoption and others for sexual purposes, with an estimated number of organized gangs that specialize in this trade at about 12. أما بالنسبة للسعر، فيتحدد وفقاً لحالة الطفل الصحية وأنتمائه العائلي ويتراوح ما بين 200 و4000 جنيه استرليني للطفل الواحد. As for price, Vihdd according to the state child health and family membership ranges between 200 and 4000 pounds per child.

The Guardian reported that the children are transported to Jordan, Syria, Turkey and some of them being deported, to some Arab and European countries, including Switzerland, Ireland, Britain, Portugal and Sweden. According to Colonel in the Criminal Investigation Police Firas Abdullah, the gang used intermediaries posing as employees of non-governmental institutions working on the preparation of documentation required to facilitate the transfer of children, including changing their names and the issuance of new passports for them, or add the name of the child to the passport of the person who is scheduled to escort the child to him abroad in the event to sell to a customer outside of Iraq. Abdullah acknowledged that corruption in Iraqi government departments makes the investigation of crimes of child trafficking complex issue.

He said: "When these children up to the border or to the airport, everything Padilla well, where is difficult to retain within the country and prevent them from traveling without a clear indication that the child is subject to the transfer of business." Recounted that "two weeks ago, we have captured a man and a woman together with a girl aged six months and they tried to cross the border point between Iraq and Jordan. One of the officers discovered that the difference of age between men and women Ghraib, he decided to investigate the matter. After their arrest, and found that her parents Baaha and was on the verge of moving to Amman, and from there to Ireland, where there is a certain family has already paid for the child. "

It quoted "Guardian" for dealer children an Iraqi named "Abu Hamza", that the price of children in Iraq is cheaper than other countries and transporting easier, so check the readiness of Iraqi officials to cooperate with the traders and forgery of certificates and identity documents necessary because of the low wages of government employees.

Abu Hamza al-progress that before the offer for the purchase of the child being examined the child's family situation and living conditions of their property, debts and personal, Faced with the difficulty faced by the family to feed the child, it becomes easy to talk with parents about their child's sale in order to preserve his life. He said that the emergence of intermediaries as social workers aim to help an important factor in convincing the parents sell their child. He pointed out that Abu Hamza mediators present themselves at the outset as persons working in the non-governmental institutions or organizations interested in providing humanitarian assistance to the families and attending her food and clothing, to gain confidence. He said the babies are the favorite, but they sometimes receive requests from customers to provide children aged between six months and four years. He stated that he heard that a child which was sold last year was used to extract the members of it and planted in a patient in a certain Middle Eastern country.

And recognized an Iraqi woman named Sarah "38 years" a widow with five children from the city of Babylon, it sold last year, two of her children two years old the first and the second four years. She complained that the Broker Deceived and paid her an amount less than what was agreed upon at the outset. She said she is aware that people regarded with contempt because of her two children to sell to, but because the two families, which rested Astraeta Tatinean their children well.

To the Academy said the specialized social sciences, Fawzia al-Attiyah said "Trading in the sale of children occur in Iraq very big percentages, and this is due to the lack of specialized organizations for the protection of children," and emphasized that "There is only the ministries of interior and defense only to protect the citizens in general, where the government does not pay any importance to the protection of children, which helped the growth of this phenomenon, where they found her shelter to settle it. " Al-Attiyah said "one way to reduce this phenomenon, the establishment of organizations work to educate the people to keep their children and rebuild the whole of society because he needed to complete the process of building."

Stated that "children are stealing and trading them, even inside the country through a process of brainwashing to be used for the purposes of terrorism and suicide attacks, in addition to their use in acts of immoral and abnormal."

For her part, active in the field of human rights Hanaa Edwar said, "This phenomenon is caused by the first is violence against children, whether by family or by the school and children are generally deprived of the most important rights such as government interest in child development in terms of health and education where there is no support for them ".

She Lador "There are families sell their children for a living due to poverty," she said, "The methods of treating the phenomenon of child health care should be significantly and the reduction of ill-treatment of children in schools which would lead to the escape of schools in addition to that there is families help the child to leave school in order to work Balastjaddad and bring the money. "

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Tough stuff in the worst way dflake. I have no reason to believe it's not real and it's happening this moment. I hope "thanks" for the post is appropriate.