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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Sex Trade Thrives in Associated Press AP, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25164944/ [accessed 27 March 2011] The girl was 11 when she was
molested by a man with no legs. The man paid her $5. And that was how she
started selling sex. The girl is now 13, and her features have just sharpened
into striking beauty. She speaks four languages — the local languages of Pashtu and Dari, the Urdu she picked up as a refugee in
Pakistan and the English she learned in a $2.40-a-month course she pays for
herself in Kabul. She is the breadwinner in her family of 10. She does
not know what a condom is. She has not heard of AIDS. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF - www.unicef.org/infobycountry/afghanistan.html [accessed 27 March 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/afghanistan.htm [accessed 18 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Afghanistan is a country of origin and transit for
children trafficked for the purposes of sexual exploitation, forced marriage,
labor, domestic servitude, slavery, crime, and the removal of body organs.
Since early 2003, there have been increasing reports of children reported as
missing throughout the country. It is also reported that impoverished Afghan
families have sold their children into forced sexual exploitation, marriage,
and labor. Human Rights Reports » 2006
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78868.htm [accessed 18 January 2011] CHILDREN - According to a recent UNHCR
report, the practice of using young boys as objects of pleasure by
commanders, tribal leaders, and others was more than a rare occurrence. Such
relations were often coercive and opportunistic in that more influential,
older men were taking advantage of the poor economic situation of some
families and young males, leaving them with little choice. There were also a
few documented cases of abduction of young boys for sexual exploitation by
commanders. The MOI recorded at least 130 cases of rape of young boys during
the year. There were no child labor laws or other legislation to protect
child abuse victims. TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – There
were continued reports of poor families promising young girls in marriage to
satisfy family debts. There were a number of reports that children,
particularly from the south and southeast, were trafficked to Pakistan to
work in factories, or internally for commercial sexual exploitation in
brothels. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61704.htm [accessed 18 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS - Trafficking victims, especially those trafficked for sexual
exploitation, faced societal discrimination, particularly in their home villages,
and the risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases. At year's end according to the
AIHRC, authorities repatriated 317 children from Sex Trade Thrives in Associated Press AP, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25164944/ [accessed 27 March 2011] The girl was 11 when she was
molested by a man with no legs. The man paid her $5. And that was how she
started selling sex. The girl is now 13, and her features have just sharpened
into striking beauty. She speaks four languages — the local languages of Pashtu and Dari, the Urdu she picked up as a refugee in
Pakistan and the English she learned in a $2.40-a-month course she pays for
herself in Kabul. She is the breadwinner in her family of 10. She does
not know what a condom is. She has not heard of AIDS. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report on
implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report Documents Poverty And
Social Misery In Joanne Laurier, World Socialist Web Site, 2 March 2005 www.wsws.org/articles/2005/mar2005/afgh-m02.shtml [accessed 27 March 2011] Children have been the primary victims
of more than two decades of conflict. Of the estimated 1.5 million people
killed during this period, some 300,000 were children. Abduction and
trafficking in children is now a rapidly growing threat, with the most common
forms of trafficking being child prostitution, forced labor, slavery,
servitude and the removal of body organs. Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict -
Country Reports www.watchlist.org/reports/files/afghanistan.report.php [accessed 27 March 2011] TRAFFICKING
AND EXPLOITATION -
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