Children's Rights

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With France carrying out aerial bombardment since January 11, 2013, to block the Islamists from advancing farther south, rebel groups should remove children immediately from training bases in or near Islamist military installations.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-8 views-row-even"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/14/syria-army-using-new-type-cluster-munition">Syria: Army Using New Type of Cluster Munition</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 14, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content"><p>Syrian forces are using notoriously indiscriminate rockets that contain explosive submunitions. 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She had migrated from Sri Lanka only weeks earlier to be a domestic worker for a Saudi family.</div> </div> </li> <li class="views-row views-row-10 views-row-even views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-field-imagefile-fid"> <span class="field-content"></span> </div> <div class="views-field-title"> <span class="field-content"><a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/01/10/last-chance-take-action-mercury-poisoning">Last chance to take action on Mercury poisoning</a></span> </div> <div class="views-field-created"> <span class="field-content">Jan 10, 2013</span> </div> <div class="views-field-field-news-teaser-value"> <div class="field-content">Aminata D. is a self-confident, energetic 11-year-old girl who lives in southern Mali. When I meet her at the Worognan gold mine, she tells me that she never goes to school. Instead, she works in gold mining, using toxic mercury on a daily basis. She describes her work to me: "Once the ore is panned, you put a bit of mercury in. You rub the ore and the mercury with your two hands. Then, when the mercury has attracted the gold, you put it on a metal box and burn it."</div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <div class="more-link"> <a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/news-all/669">more documents on this topic »</a> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="footer"> <div class="limiter clear-block"> <div class="clear-block"><a href="#header" class="back-to-top">Back to top</a></div> <div class="nav"> <a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/rss" class="rss-link">RSS</a> <div class="pipe-links"><a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/home">Home</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/our-work">Our Work</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/news">News</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/publications">Publications</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/multimedia">Multimedia</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/about">About Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/contact-us">Contact Us</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123024044/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a> <span class="pipe">|</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123024044/https://secure.hrw.org/site/c.nlIWIgN2JwE/b.8370149/k.2592/Donate__Help_Defend_Human_Rights/apps/ka/sd/donorcustom.asp?msource=n">Donate</a></div> </div> <div class="footer-blocks clear-block"> <div id="block-views-hrw_footer-block_1" class="clear-block block block-views"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="view view-hrw-footer view-id-hrw_footer view-display-id-block_1 view-dom-id-9"> <div class="view-content"> <div class="views-row views-row-1 views-row-odd views-row-first views-row-last"> <div class="views-field-body"> <div class="field-content">Human Rights Watch<br/> 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor<br/> New York, NY 10118-3299<br/> USA<br/> Tel: 1-(212) 290-4700<br/> <br/> <strong><a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/en/contact-us">Contact Us - Global Offices</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130123024044/http://ff.hrw.org/">Film Festival</a></strong><br/> <strong><a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/en/about/jobs">Employment</a></strong></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="block-tic-5" class="clear-block block block-tic"> <div class="bcontent"><div class="col-left clear-block"><strong class="vocab-header"><a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/regions">Browse by Region</a></strong><div class="item-list"><ul><li class="first first"><a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/africa">Africa</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/americas">Americas</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/asia">Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/europe/central-asia">Europe/Central Asia</a></li> <li class=""><a href="/web/20130123024044/https://www.hrw.org/middle-east/n-africa">Middle East/N. 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