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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child prostitutes available at $100 a night: the human cost of junta's repression This is a side of life the Burmese
military junta might prefer you did not see: girls who appear to be 13 and 14
years old paraded in front of customers at a nightclub where a beauty contest
thinly veils child prostitution. Tottering in stiletto heels and miniskirts,
young teenage girls criss-crossed the dance-floor
as part of a nightly "modelling" show at
the Asia Entertainment City nightclub on a recent evening in Rangoon. Prostitution, particularly
involving children, is a serious crime in military-ruled Burma, but girls
taken from the club would have no problem with the authorities, the waiter assured
the company, but did not explain why not.
It would seem that prostitution is one of the few things the Burmese
military, fresh from its recent crushing of pro-democracy demonstrations by
Buddhist monks, is still willing to tolerate. Thai
families partners in child sex trade - Border area's products are drugs and
daughters When Burmese migrant Ngun Chai sold his 13-year-old
daughter into prostitution for $114, his wife, La, had one regret -- they
didn't get a good price for her.
"I should have asked for 10,000 baht ($228)," La Chai said. "He robbed us." She was angry that the agent who bought her
eldest child, Saikun, in 1999 took her to Bangkok,
some 460 miles away, rather than a nearby city as promised. It did not
concern La Chai that Saikun
would be forced to have sex with as many as eight men a day. With prices varying from $114 to
$913 -- the latter figure equal to almost six years' wages for most families
-- parental bonds in impoverished households are easily broken. In fact,
child prostitution is so established that many brothel agents live in the
village, and are often friends or relatives of the family from whom they buy
the children - htcp ***
ARCHIVES *** Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Child prostitution and trafficking in girls
for the purpose of prostitution‑‑especially
Shan girls who were sent or lured to Thailand‑‑continued to be a
major problem. In Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1997 [24] The Committee expresses its
regret that insufficient measures are being taken to address the problems of
child abuse, including sexual abuse, and the sale and trafficking of
children, child prostitution and child pornography. It is especially concerned by the fact that
a significant number of girls, and sometimes boys, are victims of
transnational trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation in brothels
across the border. [25] In light of article 39 of the
Convention, the Committee is worried about the insufficient measures taken to
provide physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration to
children victims of any form of neglect, abuse and/or exploitation,
particularly victims of armed conflicts, sexual exploitation and child labor. Child
prostitutes available at $100 a night: the human cost of junta's repression This is a side of life the Burmese
military junta might prefer you did not see: girls who appear to be 13 and 14
years old paraded in front of customers at a nightclub where a beauty contest
thinly veils child prostitution. Tottering in stiletto heels and miniskirts,
young teenage girls criss-crossed the dance-floor
as part of a nightly "modelling" show at
the Asia Entertainment City nightclub on a recent evening in Rangoon. Prostitution, particularly
involving children, is a serious crime in military-ruled Burma, but girls
taken from the club would have no problem with the authorities, the waiter
assured the company, but did not explain why not. It would seem that prostitution is one of
the few things the Burmese military, fresh from its recent crushing of pro-democracy
demonstrations by Buddhist monks, is still willing to tolerate. The Protection Project - Myanmar [DOC] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Women and children are
trafficked from Myanmar to Thailand primarily for the purpose of
prostitution. Most of the victims are kept in Thai brothels. An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 Myanmar women
and girls are prostituted in Thailand; however, in 2002, it was estimated
that 10,000 women and children from Myanmar enter into prostitution in
Thailand every year alone. In fact, women and children from Myanmar
constitute the largest number of migrants forced or lured into prostitution
in Thailand. Reportedly, Myanmar women and
girls are commonly sold to Chinese men as mail-order brides and for the
purpose of forced marriage. More than 100 Myanmar women are reported to be
living in the Chinese province of Anhwei alone,
where they are exploited by their Chinese husbands sexually and forced to
work on farms and as housemaids. Thai
families partners in child sex trade - Border area's products are drugs and
daughters When Burmese migrant Ngun Chai sold his 13-year-old
daughter into prostitution for $114, his wife, La, had one regret -- they
didn't get a good price for her.
"I should have asked for 10,000 baht ($228)," La Chai said. "He robbed us." She was angry that the agent who bought her
eldest child, Saikun, in 1999 took her to Bangkok,
some 460 miles away, rather than a nearby city as promised. It did not
concern La Chai that Saikun
would be forced to have sex with as many as eight men a day. With prices varying from $114 to
$913 -- the latter figure equal to almost six years' wages for most families
-- parental bonds in impoverished households are easily broken. In fact,
child prostitution is so established that many brothel agents live in the
village, and are often friends or relatives of the family from whom they buy
the children - htcp ECPAT: Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for
Action [DOC] www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/publication/other/english/Doc_page/ecpat_5th_a4a_2001_full.doc At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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COUNTRY UPDATES – MYANMAR – The Government of Myanmar is not participating in the UN
Inter-Agency Project on Trafficking in Women and Children in the Mekong
Sub-Region. However, trafficking victims from Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] [57] Following ratification of the
Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Child Law was promulgated in 1993
and a National Committee on the Rights of the Child was formed the same
year. Under the Child Law, a “child” means a person up to the age
of 16, and a “youth” is aged between 16 and 18. Prostitution
involving children comes under section 66 of the Child Law which criminalizes
those who allow girls under 16 and under guardianship to earn a livelihood by
prostitution, or who permit a child under their guardianship to live with or
consort with a person who earns a livelihood by prostitution. There
have been no prosecutions in Written statement on item 13. Rights of the child According to the Unrepresented
Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), many prostitutes working in New Global Treaty to
Combat "Sex Slavery" of Women and Girls Legal experts are putting the
final touches on a landmark international treaty that would take nations a
huge step forward in the fight against trafficking in women and
children. For many trafficked women
and girls, forced prostitution has proved fatal, leaving them with the HIV
virus, which causes AIDS. Human Rights
Watch recently interviewed 19 women and girls from Sacrifice
- The Story of Child Prostitutes from Burma The 50-minute film Sacrifice
examines the social, cultural, and economic forces at work in the trafficking
of Burmese girls into prostitution in New
Weapons Against Child Trafficking In Asia In recent years, large numbers of
children from Trafficking
of Burmese Women and Children into Thailand Many thousands of women and
children from Statistical Dimension of Sexual Exploitation of Children www.indianngos.com/issue/child/sexual/statistics/statistics9.htm In 1996, there were
almost 200,000 foreign children from 8.3 Policies and Implementations at the
National Level (3) First, Education and Vocational
Training for Children and Women Second, Set up Strict Regulations in
Controlling Legal Women Migration Third, Plan of Organizing a
Committee Suppressing Trafficking in Children and Women Fourth, Response to the Problem of
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