Child Exploitation

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Slavery has been banned worldwide since 1948 when the UN officially illegalized it everywhere in Article 4 of the Declaration of Human Rights. Nonetheless, a myriad of people continue to be exploited like slaves, and the talibés in Senegal are among those who suffer greatly from this predicament. Talibés refer to male students or disciples of Islam. (“Senegal”) They are children usually under the age of twelve and not uncommon to be as young as four years old, whose parents entrust to marabouts, teachers or religious leaders, who educate them in daaras, residential Muslim schools, about moral values and the Q’uran, or at least they are supposed to. Sadly, this is not how it is in reality. Instead, most of these boys are being exploited and forced to ask for alms in the streets “to provide for the marabout and his family.” (“Senegal: Boys in Many Quranic Schools Suffer Severe Abuse”) The young talibés are so unfairly taken advantage of that they are even assigned a begging quota depending on which city they visit. And if they fail to meet the quota for the allotted span of time, they are chained to be stroke and flogged with a club or an electric cable by their teacher or an assistant. (Wells 39)

I can never picture myself in such a degrading, impoverished, and victimized position, which is probably why I decided to pursue this issue among many others. It was not until last Thursday on April 14, 2011 during Ashley Judd’s All That Is Bitter & Sweet book signing at Book Passage in Corte Madera, however, that I felt the need and calling to delve deeper into the topic. Judd shared her odyssey as an advocate for those suffering in neglected parts of the world. She discussed the poverty, sexual abuse, and violence people in those less ...

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Nossiter, Adam. “Senegal Court Forbids Forcing Children to Beg.” The New York Times. 12 Sept 2010. Web. 14 Apr 2011. .

Wells, Matthew. “Off the Back of the Children.” Human Rights Watch. United States of America. Apr 2010.

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“Sufism.” Wikipedia. April 26, 2011. Web. 28 Apr. 2011.

"Senegal: Abusive Teachers Sentenced." Human Rights Watch. 10 Sept. 2010. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. .

"Senegal: Boys in Many Quranic Schools Suffer Severe Abuse." Human Rights Watch. 15 Apr. 2010. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. .

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