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situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
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how some succeed in leaving. Perhaps
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might be poverty, rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction,
hunger, neglect, etc. On the other hand,
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Scan other countries as well as this one. Draw comparisons between activity in
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims Ministry
of Interior ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** The Protection
Project - The Paul H. www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/belarus.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - There are no
direct or indirect statistics on trafficking in children from ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] ECPAT International,
2011 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/EXSUM_A4A_CIS_BELARUS.pdf [accessed 26 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Belarus.
The report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive measures,
child and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes recommendations for
action against SEC. 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/belarus/ [accessed 23 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The minimum age for consensual sex is 16.
Prostitution of children was a problem, and the government took some steps to
address it. From January through June, the Ministry of Internal Affairs identified
353 minors as victims of pedophiles. The law provides penalties of up to 13
years in prison for production or distribution of pornographic materials
depicting a minor. The government generally enforced the law. The government
claimed that the law did not require a demonstration of force, fraud, or
coercion to constitute a child sex-trafficking offense. ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - BELARUS [PDF] ECPAT 2005 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-BELARUS.pdf [accessed 5 April
2011] In its conclusions
on the report submitted by Belarus, the Committee on the Rights of the Child
expressed concern about trafficking in children for sexual purposes, in
particular that of girls, and noted the lack of information and knowledge
about this phenomenon. Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 7 June 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/belarus2002.html [accessed 22 January
2011] [51] The Committee
is concerned about the information that 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
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] U.N. Economic and
Social Council, Commission on Human Rights, Fifty ninth session, 6 January
2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 5 April
2011] [29] Trafficking
in Persons Report 2004 - Country Narratives: Belarus US State Department,
Office To Monitor And Combat Trafficking In Persons, June 14, 2004 www.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2004/33192.htm#belarus [accessed 11
September 2012] 2009-2017.state.gov/j/tip/rls/tiprpt/2004/33192.htm#belarus [accessed 24 August
2020] PROSECUTION - The Interior
Ministry reported 191 investigations of alleged trafficking, including the
trafficking of women abroad for sexual exploitation, the recruitment of women
for the purpose of sexual exploitation abroad, and the abduction and
recruitment of minors for prostitution. Committee
On Elimination Of Racial Discrimination Considers Report Of United Nations Press
Release www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/A16CB9C482F83315C1256EE80056DDF2?opendocument [accessed 22 January
2011] In connection with
human trafficking, an Expert asked what was being done to improve the
situation of women and girls who were forced into prostitution. The
delegation said measures had been taken to ensure that such activities were
punished, as well as child prostitution. Efforts were also taken to ensure
that the victims were re-integrated into society. A number of seminars had
been conducted in both ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61638.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [c] The law prohibits forced or compulsory labor, including by children;
however, women and girls were trafficked for sexual exploitation. All
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