Moorehead, C. (1990, March). Betrayal: a Report on Violence toward Children in Today’s World. New York: Doubleday. | The United Nations Secretary General’s Study on Violence Against Children

PHOTO: PHILIPPINES: A girl sits, her face covered in the latticed shadows cast by a wire fence, outside the UNICEF-assisted Nayon Kabataan Rehabilitation Centre for street children and victims of child labour and physical abuse in Manila, the capital. (UNICEF/ HQ97-0939/Jeremy Horner)

Moorehead, C. (1990, March). Betrayal: a Report on Violence toward Children in Today’s World. New York: Doubleday.

ISBN: 0-385-41097-2

Contains 11 reports in which journalists around the world describe the violence inflicted on children. The book covers street children in Brazil, child labor in Naples, battered children in England, abandoned children in Lebanon, and more. From this, the author concludes that there exists a “betrayal of childhood innocence” as children’s rights are continually violated throughout the world.