Abuse, Mistreatment, Disambiguation, Maltreatment, Misusage, Violence

According to Wikipedia, the term abuse refers to harmful treatment of somebody or something. It means the maltreatment, misapplication or misusage of a human being, of a thing or an abstractum: A dominating position can be abused to dictate or impose something on somebody. Some forms of abuse are simply violations of something, for instance Human Rights. One of the most cruel things is child abuse, I think. Child Protective Services in the whole world attempt to guard children. I suggest, that there should be universal Childrens´ Human Rights aknowledged, and a list of definitions or categories to help prevent and to recognize, what child abuse is and how children can be helped. Childrens´ Rights are assigned around the world, here is the link to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the UNHCHR site. Amnesty International has a dossier on Children´s Rights, including categories on Child Soldiers and the plan to Stop Child Executions. Amnesty International, founded in 1960 by a London lawyer called Peter Benenson, proposes to educate children in Human Rights and coherent topics.

Children are your future, not only our future. HRW investigates child abuse around the world and works to stop it. International Legal Standards are linked on their website, many possible situations are factored in. Regional Standards are listed below. 

Regional Standards

African [Banjul] Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child

American Convention on Human Rights

Australian Rights

European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms

 

Here are additional blog posts:

WAVEs http://anthropologicdiary.blogspot.com/2007/08/waves.html

The Society was build on Female Slavery http://anthropologicdiary.blogspot.com/2007/09/society-that-was-built-on-female.html

Petitions http://anthropologicdiary.blogspot.com/2007/09/petitions.html

China: Blogger imprisoned http://anthropologicdiary.blogspot.com/2007/08/china-blogger-imprisoned-for-writing.html

Disability Research: Notizen http://anthropologicdiary.blogspot.com/2006/11/disability-research-notizen.html

Wie lange haben wir fuer Demokratie gekaempft? http://anthropologicdiary.blogspot.com/2006/08/wie-lange-haben-wir-fuer-demokratie.html

 

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