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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In the first ten years of the 21st
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Democracy, Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2008 CHILDREN - Child abuse remained a problem.
The press reported regularly on the rape and sexual abuse of children. Adult men having regular sexual relations with young girls was
also a problem. According to one regional human rights group, the girls were
often the daughters of single mothers with whom the perpetrators also had
regular sexual relations. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2004 64. The Committee is concerned
that the Sexual Offences Act of 1995 does not afford the same protection to
boys as it does to girls. The Committee is also concerned at the low rate of
prosecutions of those who sexually exploit children and that there is little
in the way of public campaigns to educate the population about the laws
governing sexual exploitation. The Committee notes that sexual exploitation
of children should be a particular and growing concern for the State party,
given its heavy reliance on commercial tourism. The
Protection Project - Antigua [DOC] www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/antigua.doc FORMS OF TRAFFICKING – Available data suggest that
trafficking occurs primarily for the purpose of prostitution. Sex tourism is
also part of the trafficking infrastructure in Antigua and Barbuda. There are reports of trafficking in
children for commercial sexual exploitation and pornography. In 2001, the
police arrested and charged four people in connection with an ongoing
investigation into an alleged child prostitution and pornography ring. Girls
as young as 13 were allegedly being sexually exploited. The ring was
discovered after one of the girls was forced to have an abortion. fletcher.tufts.edu/forum/archives/pdfs/28-1pdfs/smithandmattar.pdf
MEASURES NECESSARY TO PROSECUTE
TRAFFICKERS [page 162] ACKNOWLEDGING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY AS A FORM OF SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION -
Incidents of pornography, specifically child pornography, are largely cited
in conjunction with prostitution or under the general guise of sex tourism,
and are rarely addressed as a separate phenomenon in discussions of
trafficking. This seems to arise out of the fact that pornography often
accompanies other commercial sexual exploitation. Pornography is, however, a
lucrative industry that has proliferated widely in some areas, such as
countries in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the aid of the Internet
and the growth of sex tourism in the region. Pornography also represents
another layer of exploitation, which victims trapped in the sex industry are
often forced to endure. In many cases, women and girls are videotaped without
their consent and the profits from the sales of such videotapes are kept
entirely by the pimps and brothel owners. Children as young as 13 years old
were found in a pornography and prostitution ring in [Click here
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