Here some links on child torture and child murder in
Africa. Compared to this much worse moral problem, all the
attention on a few child prostitutes is but moral
grandstanding. Grandstanding, too, because working on the
moral problem of child prostitution guarantees huge
publicity and media fame with an absolute minimum of
effort and danger. We all know that the media anywhere in
the world loves sex topics. But if readers are presented
with real moral problems, they may not have the appetite to
buy a newspaper the next day. Cheap trick number 1 if
anybody wants international fame on the moral front: deal
with the juicy topic of child prostitution.
DRC: Children suffer torture, rape and cruelty, NGOs report
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=34823&SelectRegion=Great_Lakes&SelectCountry=DRC
Amnesty deplores African rights record
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3749633.stm
Uganda's civil war targets children
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=qw1135246863325B225&set_id=
Mauritania's deadly daily poverty
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4219104.stm
Ethiopia’s children dying from malnutrition
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/ethiopia_26181.html
Crisis in Darfur
http://www.unicefusa.org/site/c.duLRI8O0H/b.50755/k.7A58/Crisis_in_Darfur__Feature_Stories__Emergencies_
What_We_Do__US_Fund_for_UNICEF.htm