title: Global Threats to Child Safety.
abstract: Children have rights, as enumerated in the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, and need protection from violence, exploitation, and abuse. Global threats to child safety exist. These threats include lack of basic needs (food, clean water, sanitation), maltreatment, abandonment, child labor, child marriage, female genital mutilation, child trafficking, disasters, and armed conflicts/wars. Recent disasters and armed conflicts have led to a record number of displaced people especially children and their families. Strategies and specific programs can be developed and implemented for eliminating threats to the safety of children.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, E-19, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA; Observation Unit, Emergency Services Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, E-19, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA. Electronic address: maces@ccf.org.
authors.forename: Sharon E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Mace
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D005260:Female; D005523:Food Supply; D014943:Global Health; D006806:Human Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014857:Warfare
keywords: Abuse of children; Child protection; Exploitation of children; Needs of the child; Violence toward children; Vulnerable children