Child Camel Jockeys

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September 2007: Ansar Burney visits remote parts of Punjab and Sindh provinces of Pakistan in search of missing child camel jockeys and to examine the repatriation of former camel jockeys to Pakistan.

May 2007: Ansar Burney meets with Ms Fatimata MBAYE, Advocate and President of Mauritanian Association for Human Rights during his trip to Mauritania. Mr. Burney visited the country in search of missing child camel jockeys, to examine the repatriation of former child camel jockeys and work with local NGOs to curb trafficking from the country.

March 2007: Ansar Burney visits Bangladesh in search of missing child camel jockeys and to examine the repatriation of former camel jockeys to Bangladesh.

VIDEO: (March 2006) Karba - children punished with electric shocks

VIDEO: (Dec 2005) Illicit night time races using children in Oman & UAE after the 2005 ban on child camel jockeys

VIDEO: (Dec 2005) Children being used as camel jockeys in UAE in defiance of the new 2005 ban.

VIDEO: (March 2005) Rescued child jockeys tell of their injuries and the death of their friends in camel farms (in urdu)

Pictures: (Jan 2005) ABT administered shelter home for rescued child camel jockeys in Abu Dhabi.

2005: Ansar Burney Trust shelter home for child camel jockeys in Abu Dhabi - first shelter of its kind in the Middle East

2005: Rescued child camel jockeys at the Ansar Burney Trust administered shelter home in UAE

VIDEO: Watch the Emmy and duPont awards winning documentary by HBO on Ansar Burney and his work to end child slavery in the Middle East.

VIDEO: Official Camel Racing in Dubai using child camel jockeys in the presence of UAE ledership

Published News Articles

(15/09/2007) Rescued child camel jockeys handed over to extremist groups

(22/06/2007) Unborn babies being smuggled to UAE

(21/06/2007) ‘Human trafficker’ arrested at Karachi airport

(23/12/2006) Team to ensure no underage jockeys remain

(19/03/2006) Two camel kids reunited with family

(21/12/2005) Anti-Human Trafficking Hero Discusses Child Jockeys

(11/12/2005) Robot Jockeys

(26/11/2005) 64 rescued child jockeys arrive

(15/08/2005) Robot Camel Jockeys Replace Young Boys

(02/07/2005) 50 former child camel jockeys to return home

(10/05/2005) Camel jockeys trying to recover lost childhood

(19/04/2005) Ansar Burney meets Sheikha Ghalia

(14/04/2005) Jockey children handed over to their parents

(02/04/2005) Limits Set for Boy Jockeys In Emirates' Camel Race

(01/04/2005) Kids ‘missing’ as camel jockey law takes effect

(28/03/2005) UAE set to ban use of kids as camel jockeys

(27/03/2005) Kidnapped children starve as camel jockey slaves

(04/02/2005) Child camel jockeys find hope

(04/01/2005) Drive against camps with illegal jockeys from today

(24/12/2004) Rescued child jockeys find a new home

(03/12/2004) Camel Races and Slavery

(02/12/2004) Under-age camel jockeys get caring hand

Clatanoff meets Ansar Burney at rehabilitation center in Abu Dhabi

(24/11/2004) UAE Plans to end the menace

(02/11/2004) Mohammed bin Zayed invites Pak rights activist

(07/10/2004) Dead body of 'child camel jockey' to arrive

(16/09/2004) Five-year-old Pakistani camel jockey injured in race

(02/09/2004) 23 camel jockey boys brought back home from UAE

(02/09/2004) 19 Smuggled Kids head home

(29/08/2004) Burney lauds UAE for laws against child trafficking

(26/08/2004) Boy raped, another critically injured

(10/06/2004) Two camel kids handed over to parents

(24/03/2004) Camel Kids

(07/02/2004) Camel Kids handed over to Family

(13/10/2002) Race to break camel slavery

(05/09/2002) The Innocents for Sale

(29/04/2002) The camel jockeys of Arabia

(03/06/2001) Kidnapped Children sold into slavery as camel racers

(29/05/2001) Boys sold as jockeys for Emirates camel racing

(17/11/2000) Tied to camels: Kids in UAE continue to suffer

(05/11/2000) Pakistani boys were smuggled in by couple posing as parents

(05/11/2000) Abu-Dhabi police rescue two boys from Al-Ain

(05/11/2000) United Arab Emirates Police rescue 2 kidnapped Pakistani boys

(05/11/2000) Sale of boys as camel jockeys in UAE

(24/09/2000) Groupd fight smugglers who sell kids to be jockeys

ABT Rescues two more 'child camel jockeys' in the UAE