Robots Ride Camels in Kuwait

naken writes to tell us that Kuwait recently held its first regional camel race using robot jockeys. The change was made after human rights groups got child jockeys banned in Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE."

Comments

Re:Human rights?

[nursegirl]

The issue is that human rights groups had found that the vast majority of these kids had been abducted from their families and put into forced slave labour on these camel farms. So yes, if US soccer teams start abducting kids to play little league, maybe the human rights groups should get involved.

Particularly if they use electric shocks on kids if they don't do their work properly.

Re:They got it wrong...

[luvirini]

The problem was that many kids were bought from their parents in other countries and brought for the races, maltreated with too little food and so on.. to be as low weight as possible.

That was a horrible practice.

Re:How odd...

[smilingman]

I could have sworn CNN had a Reuters article on this very same thing over a year ago. Could anyone help prove me with a link? Maybe I'm just losing it... ...though some would argue I never had it in the first place.

You probably have seen it before, it's a dupe.

Re:Human rights?

[nursegirl]

While the Unicef site does say bought, Asia Child Rights, the Bangladesh Human Rights Network and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights all agree that both happened pretty frequently. In fact, the organization I cited in the gp post got involved because of trying to track an abducted child from Pakistan who ended up in the UAE.

Wired News has an article about this...

[antdude]

See here.