Harare — Children's rights are human rights! Is this true or is it just one of the many clichés used wily nilly? Are our children safe wherever they are? Whom should we trust in matters relating to their welfare? For, poverty, the HIV and Aids pandemic and Africa's armed conflicts continue to expose children to various forms of abuse from adults they are supposed to look up to and trust.
Child sexual abuse is rampant, and in most cases people known and trusted by the children are the perpetrators. What is our take on issues of child trafficking, especially the trafficking of orphaned and other vulnerable children, most of whom do not have legal guardians?
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