Human Trafficking in [Botswana] [other countries]Street Children in [Botswana] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Botswana |
Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In the first
ten years of the 21st Century -
2000 to 2009
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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs [PDF] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children in Botswana are employed in agriculture, predominately
subsistence farming, and family businesses. In remote areas, young children
also work as domestic servants.
Anecdotal evidence suggests that some children are exploited in
prostitution. In addition, there are
unconfirmed reports that Botswana is a country of transit for children
trafficked into South Africa. Bur of
Democracy, Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2008 CHILDREN - 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. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2004 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 - Botswana [DOC] www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/botswana.doc Trafficking Routes and Forms of
Trafficking - Botswana is both a country of origin and a country of transit
for trafficking in women and children for commercial sexual
exploitation. Victims from Botswana are
trafficked to South Africa via the so-called Maputo Road and are sold to
brothels in Johannesburg. 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. [Click here
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