Mission & Justice

8/5/08

Iraqis employed at the British embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone claim to have been sexually abused, the Times has reported. The British Foreign Office has received complaints from an Iraqi cleaner and two cooks that a culture of sexual harassment, abuse and bullying exists at the embassy, the report said Thursday. Accusations have been made against British employees of the US service company KBR which was responsible for catering at several embassies in Baghdad.

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Phillip Adams; 15/4/08

 was infuriated by the announcement that a 14-year-old model would be striking those high-fashion poses on Australian catwalks, alongside the fully matured 15 and 16-year-olds who pose and pout for ageing women and perving men. And I was delighted when, at last, there was a public uproar. What does an under-age model from Poland have to do with kiddie porn downloads in Australia or child prostitution in Thailand? Sadly, a great deal. They’re variations on the theme of child abuse. In war zones across the world, kids are used as killers. Dragged from their families, drugged and indoctrinated, countless thousands of child soldiers are committing atrocities in the name of this or that god, on orders from a wide variety of war lords. While some children survive physically, their minds are mutilated. Millions of others are enslaved as virtual or actual slave labourers, whether on feudal or family farms or in the infamous famous-brand factories in developing nations.

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