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Jada Pinkett Smith and The CNN Freedom Project came together and developed a documentary about child trafficking. Its appalling to see how much child trafficking there is. It happens all around the world. It must stop. Children are constantly being targeted more and more everyday especially through social media. The most susceptible children are those who are runaways or homeless. In order to stop child trafficking we must all band together so that we can make a difference. According to activists, there are an estimated 100,000 – 300,000 children who are at risk for entering the U.S.

The CRC or The United Nations Convention on the Rights of The Child was made in order to find a way to protect the rights of children and make sure it is enforced worldwide. Now only the United States remains to ratify the Convention. This is something that is important. It gives a solid piece of support that children can look to if they ever need to defend their rights. Also ratification would mean the cooperation throughout the world of all the other countries and this could help everyone around the world. The convention is something crucial to the future of children.

The evidence in an Israeli colonel’s fatal shooting of a Palestinian boy on July 3, 2015, shows that the shooting violated international standards on the use of lethal force in policing, and possibly also Israel’s own open-fire laws. Video footage obtained by B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, supports accounts by Palestinian witnesses that Shomer, a brigade commander, shot al-Kasbeh in the back as he and others were fleeing after they threw a rock at close range at the windshield of a vehicle carrying the colonel.

In Ghana children mine for gold in order to make some money. The way they do so is they spread the mercury by hand. Then tie it up with a rag and they come out with a gold and mercury mix, put it in the fire and then smoke it. Mercury is a liquid, shiny, substance. One of its abilities is that it can attract gold particles and form a gold-mercury mix pretty easily. If that mix is burned, the mercury turns to gas and leaves behind pure raw gold. It is cheap and easy to mine gold this way. As you know, it's even easy enough for small children to do. But mercury is also dangerous.