Human Trafficking in [The Bahamas] [other countries]
Street Children in [The Bahamas] [other countries]
Child Prostitution in [The Bahamas] [other countries]
 

Child Prostitution

The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

In the first ten years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2009

Commonwealth of the Bahamas The Bahamas is one of the wealthiest Caribbean countries with an economy heavily dependent on tourism and offshore banking. Tourism together with tourism-driven construction and manufacturing accounts for approximately 60% of GDP and directly or indirectly employs half of the archipelago's labor force. Steady growth in tourism receipts and a boom in construction of new hotels, resorts, and residences had led to solid GDP growth in recent years, but tourist arrivals have been on the decline since 2006 and will likely drop even further in 2009. [The World Factbook, U.S.C.I.A. 2009]

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Bur of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005

SECTION 6 WORKER RIGHTS – [d] In June the Ministry of Labor and Immigration hosted a national conference on child labor and hazardous occupations. While no current data were available, the labor minister relied upon a 2002 ILO report to estimate approximately 52 children involved in the worst forms of child labor: 4 related to slavery/bondage or the sexual exploitation of children through incestuous relationships; 9 related to illicit or unlawful activities; 4 to hazardous activities; and 35 to commercial sexual activities. The government considered the 2002 ILO report an accurate reflection of conditions during the year.

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005

[57] The Committee notes the results of the Rapid Assessment, completed by ILO in 2002, of the situation of children engaged in the worst forms of child labor in the State party and expresses its concern at the number of children involved in prostitution and child pornography. The Committee is also concerned at the lack of specific data on this issue and of targeted measures to address it.

The Protection Project - Bahamas [DOC]

FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Women and girls as young as 10 and 12 years of age are reportedly targets for sex tourism in the Bahamas Trafficking in women and children for sexual exploitation is a growing concern in the entire Caribbean region. Children in the region are victims of commercial sexual exploitation, sex tourism, pornography, underage domestic labor, and trafficking.

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Human Trafficking in [The Bahamas] [other countries]
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