50 former child camel jockeys to return home

LAHORE - 2nd July 2005

Pakistani renouned human rights activist Ansar Burney announced on Sunday that Fifty more rescued underage former child camel jockeys from UAE will arrive back home next week.

Mr. Burney said that dozens of underage Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Sudanese children have already been rescued in the UAE and they are at present in a children center at Abu Dhabi where they are waiting for the traveling documents and other necessary arrangements to go back to their respective countries.

22 children came back from UAE last month, while "we have more than 100 rescued underage children in Abu Dhabi Child care Center belonging from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Oman and some of the African countries and arrangements are being finalized to send them back to their respective countries as early as possible". Ansar Burney said.

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