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
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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
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the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
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/botswana/ [accessed 23 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the prostitution and sexual abuse
of children. Conviction of sex with a child younger than 16, including a prostituted
child, constitutes defilement and is punishable by a
minimum of 10 years’ incarceration. In April parliament amended the penal
code, raising the age of consent from 16 to 18. The
penalty for conviction of not reporting incidents of child sexual exploitation
ranges from 10,000 to 30,000 pula ($940 to $2,810), imprisonment for no less
than two years but no greater than three years, or both. Perpetrators who
engage in sexual exploitation of children are punished, if convicted, with a
fine of no less than 30,000 pula ($2,810) but no greater than 50,000 pula
($4,680), imprisonment for no less than five years but no greater than 15
years, or both. The law further requires the government to develop programs
to prevent the sexual exploitation of children. Child pornography
is a criminal offense punishable, if convicted, by five to 15 years’
imprisonment. 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 22 August
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 234] Reports indicate
that children in Botswana are victims of commercial sexual exploitation,
sometimes as a result of human trafficking, and debt bondage. (2,9) In addition, children of San ethnic minority groups
may be subjected to forced labor conditions on private farms and cattle
posts. (1,2,9) Research was unable to determine the sectors, types of
activities, and hazards that children encounter as child laborers Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 1 October 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/botswana2004.html [accessed 25
February 2011] 58. The Committee
is concerned at the increasing incidence of sexual exploitation and abuse of children
as mentioned in the State party report. 59. The Committee
recommends that the State party: (a) Undertake a study of children involved
in commercial sexual exploitation and use its data to design policies and programmes to prevent commercial sexual exploitation of
children, including through the development of a national plan of action on
commercial sexual exploitation of children, as agreed at the first and second
World Congresses Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in
1996 and 2001. The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/botswana.doc [accessed 2009] Trafficking Routes
and Forms of Trafficking - More specifically,
porous borders, combined with recurrent civil and political unrest and a lack
of economic opportunity, have ensured a consistent southward flow of both legal
and illegal migrants in southern Africa. Trafficking victims are difficult to
distinguish amid these flows. In southern Africa, traffickers capitalize on
the vulnerabilities created by war, poverty, minimal education, unemployment,
and a general lack of opportunity. Some harmful cultural practices have
caused women to be viewed as a sexual commodity, thus making them
particularly vulnerable to exploitation.
Women and children trafficked for prostitution are
among the most vulnerable groups exposed to HIV/AIDS, and children orphaned
by the disease are especially vulnerable to trafficking. Furthermore, the ongoing food crisis in the
region has exacerbated already desperate conditions. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/118987.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Child prostitution and pornography are criminal offenses. Media and NGO
reports indicated that prostituted children had been made available to truck
drivers along the main road linking the country with South Africa and that
many of the girls and boys were thought to be orphans. The Department of Labor’s 2006 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor [PDF] U.S. Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs, 2007 www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/tda/tda2006/botswana.pdf [accessed 23 January
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
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