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Tens of thousands of children in Haiti — most of them girls — are working as domestic servants in conditions that amount to slavery, Amnesty International said in a briefing Tuesday, ahead of Universal Children?s Day (Friday, Nov. 20). The human rights organization is launching a campaign to press the government of Haiti to protect child workers from abuse and exploitation.

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Besides International Children’s Day on June 1 and Universal Children’s Day on Nov. 20, many countries have local children’s holidays celebrated on other dates. In Japan, children are very lucky to have three children’s holidays. On Mar. 3, the “Girl’s Day”, families with daughters will decorate their houses with fine traditional dolls to bless their daughters. The “Boy’s Day” falls on May 5 …

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