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The early years of the 21st Century gvnet.com/childprostitution/ CAUTION: There is always
a risk in posting links to external websites.
Some of the following links may possibly lead to websites that present
information that is unsubstantiated or even false. Their authenticity has not been verified
and their content has not been validated. A 15-Year-Old's Story of Prostitution - Poverty
and cynicism in Nelson G. Katsande, OhmyNews, NELKA, 2006-August-15 english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=310922&rel_no=1 [accessed 18 August 2011] Tambudzai, age 15, grew up on a
farm in Mazowe, northeast of Following his death, poverty was
unavoidable. Tambudzai was expelled from school for non-payment of fees, and
none of her father's relatives offered to help. Her dream of becoming a nurse
had been shattered. Left to fend for herself, she was lured into the venality
of city life and found herself in Abduction 1996: August Cape Town
Central Business District Rebirth Africa Life on the Continent, www.rebirth.co.za/a_true_story_of_how_one_girl_was_traf.htm [accessed 18 September 2011] Alicia, fourteen years old, on Thursday
afternoon 8 August 1996: Media Sensationalism A
‘Disservice’ To Youth Sex Workers Andrea Woo www.tamark.ca/wpj/andrea/children.html [Last access date unavailable] When
they found her in February 2001, she was cold, beaten and pumped full of
stimulants. She was an
out-of-towner—originally from Tulasa and the Horrors of Child Prostitution - Sold And
Resold Body And Soul Rajedar Menen reports from Kathmandu and At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 August 2011] Eleven
years ago, in 1982, at the age of 13, Tulasa Thapa was rescued from the
brothels of Philippines-Children: Scourge Of
Child Prostitution Sol F Juvida, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, MANILA,
Oct 12, 1997 www.ips.fi/koulut/199742/6.htm [accessed 22 August 2011] Sharon, a
13 years-old schoolgirl was forever cutting classes at her village school
and, fearful of her parents wrath, took a bus from her village and headed for
the big city - Manila. She wound up in
Little Girls of the Night Gilberto Dimenstein, NACLA Report on the www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=95690379 [accessed 22 August 2011] Twelve girls--among them, Ana
Meire Lima da Silva, age 15, and Miriam Ferreira dos Children And Women Trafficking
In Prof. Yi Ki Ho ( www.idea.org.np/Children%20&%20Women%20Trafficking.html [accessed 22 August 2011] 13-year-old Mira of Nepal was
offered a job as a domestic worker in Meena was married off at 12. Soon
after she was taken to Maya, 10, was taken to A New Life for a Child Victim of
Prostitution - Rose www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/sga0106/Tanzania-FeatureStory-Wanyenda.htm [accessed 22 August 2011] Only 13 at that time, she decided
to drop out of school and leave home, like many of her friends before her, to
escape difficult living conditions. It happened one day when she was going to
school and met a boy from a nearby village who persuaded her to escort him to
the town where he lived. The boy would bring home two or three of his friends
and force Wanyenda to sleep with all of them for cash payment. She was
tortured, sexually abused and sometimes beaten by the boy if she refused to
provide the services. Whenever the boy was away, she received customers on
her own in order to earn some money for food. Life became unbearable. After
18 months she decided to leave. Not knowing where to go, she began wandering
the streets. There she met other girls her age who took her to a brothel. Fighting sexual exploitation and trafficking in Indonesia UNICEF, At a Glance: www.unicef.org/infobycountry/indonesia_23650.html [accessed 13 February 2011] Yani was 15 when her boyfriend
lured her away from home with false promises of a lucrative job and a chance
to continue her education. "My
pimp stopped giving me money and just supplied me with drugs," says
Dewi. "I got worse and worse. I lived from hotel room to hotel room, and
worked wherever a client wanted me, here in Dr Peter Piot, Executive Director, UNAIDS, 1996 [accessed 20 September 2011] CONCLUSION - A woman approached a Buddhist
monk, and said: "When I was 12, my parents, who were very poor, sold me
to a brothel and I have had to do this work ever since. I must beg your
forgiveness for my sin." The monk replied; "There is
no need to beg forgiveness from me. It is I and the world who should beg your
forgiveness, for we have not done enough to protect you. Please forgive me
and the world for having failed to protect you in the first place." Testimony of Dewi Polaris Project actioncenter.polarisproject.org/the-frontlines/survivor-testimonies/38-testimonies/61-testimony-of-dewi [Last access date unavailable] My name is Dewi. I am now 16, but
this happened to me when I was 15. I am the oldest in my family, and have
three brothers, all still at primary school. I only finished grade five and
do not go to school anymore, because I was lazy and wanted money. Testimony of Cherry Kingsley Cherry Kingsley, trafficked in Canada, originally from
Canada; Keynote Address on behalf of the NGO Group for the Convention on the
Rights of the Child before the Second World Congress Against Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children in Yokohama (December 2001) At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 April 2011] Firstly, I would like to tell you about
myself for just a moment. I am a survivor of Commercial Sexual Exploitation.
I grew up in the sex trade in Testimony of Dawn Polaris Project actioncenter.polarisproject.org/the-frontlines/survivor-testimonies/38-testimonies/59-testimony-of-dawn [Last access date unavailable] My mother kicked me out of my home
at the age of 12. I spent the first few weeks couch surfing and trying to go
back home. Often it would last just a few days and then soon I would be back
out. I had to quit school and try to make my way in the world with no
support. I had no place to go and as far as choices I had 2…live on the
streets or die. When I left I went straight to the only place I knew to go, a
local hangout for all various types of problem kids.... I have often heard men say that I
had a choice, and I did, it was either work as a prostitute or starve to
death because it is illegal in Out Of The Shadows: Child
Prostitutes Speak Out Leanne Yohemas-Hayes and John Chilibeck, Capital News
Online, www4.carleton.ca/jmc/cnews/16031998/story2.html [accessed 22 August 2011] She turned her first trick when
she was 13 and worked in a brothel with other girls as young as 11. They sold their bodies in the back of a
knick-knack shop in Child Prostitution in Victorian Alejandro Levis, 24 November 2000 www.stormloader.com/munaypata/Singapore.htm [Last access date unavailable] TESTIMONY OF JANET LIM – CIRCA 1920 - Janet Lim, was not sold as a
prostitute, but in the early part of the Twentieth Century she was sold a
seven year bonded servant, or mui tsai.
She later became an educated writer (Lim, 1958). If not herself a prostitute, she did
witness the trade and gave the following testimony. Maeley and Evetta [access information unavailable] When Maeley was 15 she was manipulated
into going to the city to work in a brothel for her destitute family. When Evetta was 14, she was forced to work
as a housemaid to provide food and necessities for her family. Approximately
a year later she was led to work in a brothel where she met Maeley. Rescuing Prostituted Children- A
Personal Account by Fr. Shay Cullen Independent Catholic News ICN www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=9910 [accessed 22 August 2011] Within minutes, a neatly dressed
woman approached and offered us two 11 year-old children for sex. She named
her price, one hundred dollars for each child, plus an additional payment for
the brothel operator called the mamasan where the children were being kept. Sex Workers in the City of Kolkata www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20060710113239534 [accessed 22 August 2011] ONE WOMAN’S STORY - At 14, Pandey was married off
to a man 20 years her senior who had designs on inheriting her ailing
father’s government job and a cut of his pension. When another sister’s
husband got the position instead, the abuse began. |