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Hong Kong's government on Friday unveiled its proposed national security bill, following a month-long public consultation that ended last week. The package, known as Article 23, is designed to ...
Article 23 is an article of the Hong Kong Basic Law.It states that Hong Kong "shall enact laws on its own to prohibit any act of treason, secession, sedition, subversion against the Central People's Government, or theft of state secrets, to prohibit foreign political organizations or bodies from conducting political activities in the Region, and to prohibit political organizations or bodies of ...
Articles 34 and 35 of the CRC require states to protect children from all forms of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse. This includes outlawing the coercion of a child to perform sexual activity, the prostitution of children, and the exploitation of children in creating pornography.
In Ireland, only 20.3% of the reports received by the Irish police forces turned out to be actual exploitation material. Specifically, from a total of 4192 reports received, 471 i.e. more than 10% were false positives. [13]
The law, known as Article 23, will target crimes including treason, theft of state secrets, espionage, sabotage, sedition and "external interference", including from foreign governments.
Child trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of children for the purpose of exploitation. [220] Children are trafficked for purposes such as of commercial sexual exploitation, bonded labour, camel jockeying, child domestic labour, drug couriering, child soldiering, illegal adoptions, and begging.
Article 21A: Right to education; the right against exploitation (Articles 23-24): Article 23: Prohibition of trafficking in human beings and forced labor; Article 24: Prohibition of child labor; the right to freedom of religion (Articles 25-28): Article 25: Freedom of conscience and free profession, practice, and propagation of religion
The position was created in 1990 by the former United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) amidst growing international concern over the commercial sexual exploitation and the sale of children. It followed the adoption on 20 November 1989 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child by the United Nations General Assembly .