C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and how
some succeed in leaving. Perhaps your
paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their leaving. Other factors of interest might be poverty,
rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction, hunger, neglect,
etc. On the other hand, you might
choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who control this
activity. There is a lot to the
subject of Child Prostitution. Scan
other countries as well as this one.
Draw comparisons between activity in adjacent countries and/or
regions. Meanwhile, check out some of
the Term-Paper
resources that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Protection
Project Country Report [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/algeria.doc [accessed 2009] GOVERNMENT RESPONSES - The government
of There are several
government-sponsored victim assistance initiatives. Those initiatives include
rape crisis centers and programs sponsored by the Ministries of Justice and
Health to assist young girls involved in prostitution and other forms of
sexual exploitation. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/algeria/ [accessed 23 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits
solicitation for prostitution and stipulates prison sentences of between 10
and 20 years when the offense is committed against a minor under age 18. By
law the age for consensual sex is 16. The law stipulates a prison sentence of
between 10 and 20 years for rape when the victim is a minor. The law established a national council to address children’s
issues, gives judges authority to remove children from an abusive home, and allows
sexually abused children to provide testimony on video rather than in court. 2018 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 23 August
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 125 PREVALENCE AND SECTORAL DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD LABOR - Children in Algeria engage in the worst forms of child labor, including in commercial sexual exploitation and forced begging, each sometimes as a result of human trafficking. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 30 September 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/algeria2005.html [accessed 10 January
2016] [78] The Committee expresses its deep concern at the information
that child prostitution is increasing and that
not only girls, but also boys who work as vendors, couriers or domestic
servants, are particularly vulnerable to sexual exploitation. Commercial sexual
exploitation of children: The situation in the Middle East/ Based on the
situation analysis written by Dr Najat M’jid for the
Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 18 January
2011] These countries
also have in common, however, a number of constraints that have hindered
preparation of national plans of action.
In all the countries of the region, there is cultural resistance to
addressing the problem because the subject is largely taboo. Often the issue is dealt with more
generally under headings such as ‘violence’ and ‘trauma’. This means that there has been no regional
consensus on defining CSEC in law; in some countries, for example, it is
looked upon as an indecent act, in others as rape, although in all 20
countries there is some section of the penal code that can be invoked against
sexual abuse and exploitation. Report on the Worst
Forms of Child Labour Compiled by the Global March
Against Child Labour [PDF] The Global March
Against Child Labour Resource Centre, 20 September
2004 beta.globalmarch.org/resourcecentre/world/algeria.pdf [accessed 28 August
2012] CHILD
PROSTITUTION
- In Algeria, like most of Africa, child prostitution is increasing. Not only girls, but also boys who work as
vendors, couriers or domestic helps, are vulnerable to sexual exploitation in
the cities. – htcp ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human
Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61685.htm [accessed 4 February
2020] CHILDREN
- In
April a government office reported that in 2004, approximately 4,554 children
younger than 16 were abused, of whom 2,306 were hospitalized for injuries stemming
from abuse, 1,386 were victims of sexual abuse, and 53 were victims of
incest. The Department of
Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/algeria.htm [accessed 18 January
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - The Penal Code prohibits compulsory labor, including
forced or bonded labor by children.
Article 342 of Ordinance 75-47 of June 1975 and Law No. 82-04 of
February 13, 1982 prohibits the corruption and debauchery of minors younger
than age 19, while Article 343 and 344 prohibit the use and recruitment of
minors in prostitution. The Penal Code
prohibits the removal, arbitrary detention and kidnapping of a person,
although is no law specifically prohibiting trafficking in persons. All
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