ational standards guarantee children protection from all forms of violence, whatever the reason, whoever the perpetrator. Article 19 of the Children’s Convention obliges states parties to protect children from “all forms of physical or mental violence, injury or abuse, neglect or negligent treatment, maltreatment or exploitation, including sexual abuse, while in the care of parent(s), legal guardian(s) or any other person who has the care of the child” (Amnesty International, 2000).Nevertheless, the abuse to the children continues being the world’s secret shame, a daily reality ignored by many governments. Anywhere in the world we see the same general pattern of abuses: there hardly exist any differences between the police treatment that receive children in China and Brazil; or between their conditions of imprisonment in Paraguay or Russia; and the violence against children in armed conflicts is as devastating in Sierra Leona as in Afghanistan. According to Amnesty International in occasion of the celebration in November of 2000 of the tenth anniversary of the Convention of the UN on Children’s Rights, governments worldwide are failing to fulfill his obligation to protect children from abuses against human rights. The abuses that the children suffer go from torture and bad treatments from the hands of the police to the homicides in the hands of their own families; from the traffic of children to the captive work; from unavoidable prostitution to performing work in places where they are exploded; from the use of the children as soldiers to the executions of minors. The list of abuses that children undergo is interminable, although almost all countries except the United States and Somalia have ratified the Convention on Children’s Rights; also, most of the countries they have ratified other international treaties like the Convention against Tortur...
