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Almost half of gang members in Haiti are minors

Published on: March 11, 2024
14:47

Port-au-Prince, Mar 11 (Prensa Latina) Almost half of gang members in Haiti are minors; thus, they suffer from not accessing their basic rights nowadays.

Childhood cancer: Sad and unfortunate epidemic with no cure

Published on: February 15, 2024
16:44

United Nations, Feb 15 (Prensa Latina) Cancer has become an epidemic with no cure that affects millions of children around the globe, that´s why today marks the International Childhood Cancer Day.

Ecuadorian movement denounces minors’ abuse in raids

Published on: January 29, 2024
18:01

Quito, Jan 29 (Prensa Latina) National Coordinator of “Pacto por la Niñez” (Convenant on Childhood) in Ecuador Manuel Martinez rejected on Monday the treatment that the Forces of Law and Order are allegedly giving to children and adolescents during military operations.

Cases of sexual exploitation of minors reported in Uruguay

Published on: December 8, 2023
11:07

Montevideo, Dec 8 (Prensa Latina) So far this year and by the end of November, 346 cases of sexual exploitation of minors and adolescents were registered in Uruguay, according to a report whose results were made public today.

Over 200 children victims of violent deaths in Ecuador

Published on: September 21, 2023
19:07

Quito, Sep 21 (Prensa Latina) Ecuador´s Police Department reported on Thursday that as many as 231 children were reported as victims of violent deaths in Ecuador up to September 13.

Nearly 170 Palestinian minors are imprisoned in Israeli jails

Published on: August 16, 2023
08:29

Ramallah, Aug 16 (Prensa Latina) Nearly 170 Palestinian minors are imprisoned in a number of Israeli jails, where they are subjected to torture and mistreatment, the Commission of Affairs of Prisoners and Former Prisoners denounced.

Half a million German religious leave the Catholic Church

Published on: June 28, 2023
13:36

Berlin, Jun 28 (Prensa Latina) More than half a million religious left the German Catholic Church last year, a record for that institution affected by a crisis of confidence due to allegations of sexual abuse of minors.

DHS probes labor trafficking of kids who cleaned slaughterhouses

Published on: January 19, 2023
17:00

Washington, Jan 19 (Prensa Latina) Federal investigators are currently investigating into whether 50 children, some as young as 13 – who were allegedly illegally employed cleaning Midwestern slaughterhouses were victims of labor trafficking, officials from the department of Homeland Security (DHS) said.

Violence in Ecuador killed nearly 200 minors in 2022

Published on: January 3, 2023
12:39

Quito, Jan 2 (Prensa Latina) Violence and fights between criminal gangs associated with drug trafficking killed 192 minors in Ecuador in 2022, according to official data released on Tuesday.

Israel arrested more than 750 Palestinian minors in 2022

Published on: November 19, 2022
08:35

Ramallah, Nov 19 (Prensa Latina) Israeli security forces arrested more than 750 Palestinian children and adolescents since the beginning of 2022, an NGO denounced Saturday.

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