Kids ‘missing’ as camel jockey law takes effect - Khaleej Times

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Speaking to Khaleej Times, Pakistani human rights activist Ansar Burney said that the Ansar Burney Welfare Trust International has received reports that some people have started hiding these children in remote areas in the desert as well as their homes. “It has also come to our attention that many underage camel jockeys are being smuggled to neighbouring countries where they will continue to be used as child camel jockeys,” Burney added.
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“We are hoping that this move by the UAE government will motivate other Arab and Middle East countries to implement similar laws,” he added. According to Burney, over 40,000 children are employed in this form of labour and their ages range from one and a half-year-old to seven years and most of them are brought from Asian countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Yemen and Sudan. “These children have been living wretched lives and are abused and tortured daily. They live and sleep in hot, crowded huts made from corrugated iron sheets without electricity in the high desert temperatures of above 52 degrees centigrade. They are forced to train on the camels two or three times a day in extreme temperatures of the desert, after which they also have to serve their masters,” he explained.
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