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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
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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
- Female trafficking for sexual purposes is a thriving business in All
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