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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Officials act against sexual exploitation
by tourists Jacqueline Godwin reporting, News-5
Channel-5 Belize, August 03, 2006 channel5belize.com/archive_detail_story.php?story_id=16761 [accessed 6 April 2011] JACQUELINE GODWIN,
REPORTING
- Hit me on the Hips is no new dance craze. The phrase refers to the latest
practice of high school girls being text messaged on their cell phones. The
reason? Sex with tourists. The interested visitor arrives in the country
makes contact with a taxi driver who then sends the text message to the girl
at school. As dramatized in this advertisement from Youth Enhancement
Services the student then illness to leave class. ANDREW GODOY - They get sick
and leave school and would be picked up by these taxi drivers, and would be
taken to whatever location. Sometimes right there, maybe in the vehicle to
meet up with tourists, but it is sad and it is very disturbing. While the
problem I guess is not big or not such a major problem that it is out of
control as yet, I think that we do realize that it is a concern.” ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/belize.htm [accessed 22 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Teenage girls, many of whom have migrated from
neighboring Central American countries, are reported to work as domestic
servants, barmaids and prostitutes. 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 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61716.htm [accessed 22 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
- The government's National Committee for Families and Children reported
instances of minors engaged in prostitution with older male clientele, in
some cases of their own volition, in others arranged by their family. The
girls were typically of high-school age, but some as young as 12 were
reported, and came from economically disadvantaged families in which their
mothers also were victims of the same abuse. The girls often provided sexual
favors to older men in exchange for clothing, jewelry, or school fees and
books. In a limited number of cases, the government was not able to prosecute
individuals for unlawful carnal knowledge because the victims or their
families were reluctant to press charges. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
28 January 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/belize2005.html [accessed 22 January 2011] [67] The Committee
welcomes the adoption in 2003 of the Trafficking in Persons
(Prohibition) Act, which provides special protection for children, and the
subsequent establishment of a special Task Force to give greater effect to
the implementation of the Act, and notes the State party’s efforts to combat
sexual exploitation of children, for instance, through the “Stamp Out Child
Abuse” campaign. Notwithstanding these positive steps taken by the State
party, the Committee is concerned about the sexual exploitation of children,
child pornography and trafficking of children in [68] The Committee
also notes with concern that the sex offence legislation of the State party
is discriminatory, leaving boys without equal legal protection from sexual
assault and abuse. Furthermore, the reported cases of the so‑called
“sugar daddies”, adult men having sexual liaison with girls and providing
both girls and their families with monetary and material benefits in exchange
for sex, give rise to serious concerns. Child prostitution in Belize is no myth,
says report Jacqueline Godwin reporting, News-5
Channel-5 Belize, October 26, 2006 channel5belize.com/archive_detail_story.php?story_id=17297 [accessed 6 April 2011] In the news media
we're always hearing rumours of child prostitution
in DIANNE HAYLOCK - How a four year
old be commercially exploited sexually? Parent involvement. The child is
wooed by an older man with sweets, food and all of those things and the
mother eventually finds out and she continues, she allows it to continue to
happen and she benefits financially from this man. This child actually ran
away from home and the way the case came to the attention of the service
providers is not because that was happening but the child ended up with an
S.T.I. Officials act against sexual exploitation
by tourists Jacqueline Godwin reporting, News-5
Channel-5 Belize, August 03, 2006 channel5belize.com/archive_detail_story.php?story_id=16761 [accessed 6 April 2011] JACQUELINE GODWIN,
REPORTING
- Hit me on the Hips is no new dance craze. The phrase refers to the latest
practice of high school girls being text messaged on their cell phones. The
reason? Sex with tourists. The interested visitor arrives in the country
makes contact with a taxi driver who then sends the text message to the girl
at school. As dramatized in this advertisement from Youth Enhancement
Services the student then illness to leave class. ANDREW GODOY - They get sick
and leave school and would be picked up by these taxi drivers, and would be
taken to whatever location. Sometimes right there, maybe in the vehicle to
meet up with tourists, but it is sad and it is very disturbing. While the
problem I guess is not big or not such a major problem that it is out of
control as yet, I think that we do realize that it is a concern.” 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
– Ratification of
the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the
sale of children child prostitution and child pornography Office of the High Commissioner for Human
Rights www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/0/caa7306668e2b21cc1256997002c23eb?OpenDocument [accessed 6 April 2011] Status: Ratification Date of
signature 09/06/2000 Date of receipt of
instrument by the UN 12/01/2003 Date of entry into
force 01/01/2004 Child Prostitution: A Growing Scourge W. E. Gutman, The
www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_10/issue_07/travel_01.html [accessed 6 April 2011] A
REGION OUT OF CONTROL - Although comprehensive data
regarding child prostitution in Belize are not available, sex tourism is
being blamed on an increase in HIV/AIDS cases among minors and adults.
Ambiguous statutes, slipshod investigations and short prison terms are
turning The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/belize.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - Throughout the Central American
region, “machismo” attitudes are prevalent, and women are often viewed as
sexual objects. Interfamily violence, the breakdown of families, and poverty
push young people to leave their homes and communities to search for better
lives. FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Many of the
teenage girls and children trafficked into the country from neighboring
Central American countries are forced to work in domestic service, as bar
maids, and in prostitution. All
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