Child exploitation and the international children's rights

Abstract

This thesis has two main purposes. First, it explores the exploitation of children in all its forms including abuse, prostitution, pornography, child labor, child servants, corporal punishment and it studies the protection of children and the international conventions relating to children's rights. First, I defined basic concepts which are the definition of the child and stated what are the child's rights, child sexual abuse, child prostitution, child pornography, corporal punishment and child labor taking Morocco as a case study. Second, I studied how children's rights are implemented and protected under the UN convention on the rights of the child the European convention on the exercise of children's rights and the African charter on the rights and welfare of the child. This thesis will conclude with how these exploited children are protected under the international instruments: the UN convention on the rights of the child, the African charter on the rights and the welfare of the child and the European convention on the exercise of children's rights. The task of protecting children from those who would sexually exploit them is an enormous one. But it is a task that must be done.