Robots Ride Camels in Kuwait 50
naken writes to tell us that Kuwait recently held its first regional camel race using robot jockeys. The change was made after human rights groups got child jockeys banned in Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE."
Re:Human rights? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Human rights? (Score:3, Informative)
Particularly if they use electric shocks on kids if they don't do their work properly.
Re:They got it wrong... (Score:5, Informative)
That was a horrible practice.
Re:How odd... (Score:4, Informative)
You probably have seen it before, it's a dupe [slashdot.org].
Re:Human rights? (Score:3, Informative)
Wired News has an article about this... (Score:4, Informative)
No laughing matter (Score:2, Informative)
Their grant applications, notably to the European Union, go into all the sordid details about trafficking in children. In Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, tens of thousands of children every year are abducted into one form of slavery or another. There is a cross border traffic in both directions, with for example lots of Afghan refugee children undergoing similar ignomy. The camel jockeys are a particularly bad example because the kids are deliberately starved.
If Kuwait is going to fall into line that's good news, but it's really only the tip iceberg. For a start it's not the biggest market for these kids - the United Arab Emirates is huge in comparison.
And the traffic in camel jockeys is just a small part of the overall children's rights problem. If I told you about some of the other sordid things that kids have to undergo believe me it would make your skin crawl.
It's absolutley no laughing matter.