{"id":263,"date":"2007-05-06T06:33:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-06T14:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbrace.laughingsquid.net\/wordpress\/index.php\/archives\/2007\/05\/06\/uae-government-to-compensate-bangladeshs-children-used-as-camel-jockeys\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T06:33:50","modified_gmt":"2007-05-06T14:33:50","slug":"uae-government-to-compensate-bangladeshs-children-used-as-camel-jockeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"UAE Government To Compensate Bangladesh&#8217;s Children Used As Camel Jockeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka, Bangladesh  &#8211; The United Arab Emirates (UAE) government has decided to compensate the Bangladeshi children used as camel jockeys in their country. The children, some as young as 4-years-old were taken from Bangladesh, Pakistan and other countries to serve as riders on camels during races. It was a sport suited for adult riders but dangerous for the often terrified youngsters who were forced to ride atop galloping camels.<\/p>\n<p>A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was singed to this effect between Bangladesh and the UAE governments on April 25, according to an official statement distributed in the capital, Dhaka on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh Home Secretary Abdul Karim and the Home Secretary of UAE signed the MoU on behalf of their respective sides.<\/p>\n<p>Under the MoU, Bangladeshi children who were used as camel jockeys and who were injured from Jan. 1, 1993 to the subsequent period will be compensated $1,000 each.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of compensation may be extended up to $5,000 for the injured children used as camel jockeys, the statement adds.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 200 such children have already returned to Bangladesh and the UAE government provided around $1,500 to each of them for their rehabilitation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dhaka, Bangladesh &#8211; The United Arab Emirates (UAE) government has decided to compensate the Bangladeshi children used as camel jockeys in their country. The children, some as young as 4-years-old were taken from Bangladesh, Pakistan and other countries to serve as riders on camels during races. It was a sport suited for adult riders but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","spay_email":""},"categories":[50,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbrace.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}