Tuesday, March 15, 2005
You couldn't get away with this headline in The New York Times
'UAE: New law on child camel jockeys' - headline, Al-Jazeera.
It actually looks like a tough situation for the kids involved:
It actually looks like a tough situation for the kids involved:
The United Arab Emirates has said it would crack down on the trafficking of Asian child camel jockeys, a practice internationally condemned as a form of slavery.
Rights groups say several thousand boys, some as young as four, work as jockeys in the lucrative sport in the oil-rich Gulf Arab state.
They say the boys are kept in prison-like conditions where they are deliberately underfed to keep them light so the camels run faster. The children race at speeds of up to 50km an hour in the sport popular among Beduins.
2 Comments:
By 
Sluggo, at
Tue Mar 15, 11:42:00 PM:
"Abu Hassam of Laura Ashley-Bahrain named towel head."
Fortune
By TigerHawk, at
Wed Mar 16, 06:34:00 AM:
What was holding you back? It can't be that you didn't want to break your perfect record!:)
