On 20 November 1959, the UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child was unanimously adopted. More than 50 years later, children from around the world are exploited, forced to work, subjected to prostitution, used as child soldiers, and condemned to abject poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Far from fighting to solve this problem and availing themsel-ves of their privileged positions to strive to help, some citizens from the countries that signed the Declaration behave in ways that should be condemned and prohibited. Many tourists sexually abuse children or facilitate their use as a lure in false orphanages. Despicably, they look the other way when children are at the helm of recreational boats, give them mas-sages or amuse them with circus acts. As we can see in this series, their perverse behaviour has led some places where children are forced to work in rubbish dumps to become tourist destinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDirty tourism\u201d draws attention to these acts that violate all of the rights of childhood and denigrate children by making them mere recreational objects. These acts are prohibited and would be severely punished in these tourists\u2019 countries of origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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