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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child prostitutes available at $100 a
night: the human cost of junta's repression Kevin Doyle in Rangoon, The Guardian, 30
October 2007 www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/30/burma.international [accessed 13 April 2011] 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 Andrew Perrin, San Francisco Chronicle, Mae
Sai, www.sfgate.com/news/article/Thai-families-partners-in-child-sex-trade-2877185.php [accessed 16 August 2012] 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 -
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ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61603.htm [accessed 25 January 2011] CHILDREN
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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) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
24-01-1997 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/0f90115e70a4b29ec125663c00343b92?OpenDocument [accessed 25 January 2011] [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 Kevin Doyle in www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/30/burma.international [accessed 13 April 2011] 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 - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/myanmar.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Women and children
are trafficked from 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 Andrew Perrin, San Francisco Chronicle, Mae
Sai, www.sfgate.com/news/article/Thai-families-partners-in-child-sex-trade-2877185.php [accessed 16 August 2012] 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 $913 -- the latter figure equal to almost six years' wages for
most families -- parental bonds in impoverished households are easily broken.
In fact, child prostitution is so established that many brothel agents live
in the village, and are often friends or relatives of the family from whom
they buy the children -
htcp Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report by Special
Rapporteur [DOC] U.N. Economic and Social Council,
Commission on Human Rights, Fifty ninth session, 6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 13 September 2011] [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 Written statement by the Transnational
Radical Party (TRP), a non-governmental organization in general consultative
status, submitted to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child,
E/CN.4/2005/NGO/269, 10 March 2005 servizi.radicalparty.org/documents/index.php?func=detail&par=3691 [accessed 13 April 2011] According to the
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO), many prostitutes
working in New Global Treaty
to Combat "Sex Slavery" of Women and Girls U.N. Dept. of Public Information, DPI/2098,
February 2000 -- Tenth United Nations Congress On The Prevention Of Crime And
The Treatment Of Offenders www.un.org/events/10thcongress/2098.htm [accessed 13 April 2011] 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 Bruno Films www.brunofilms.com/sacrifice.html [accessed 13 April 2011] 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 International Labour Organisation ILO,
WORLD OF WORK, No. 19, March 1997 www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/magazine/19/child.htm [accessed 13 April 2011] In recent years,
large numbers of children from Trafficking of
Burmese Women and Children into Kalaya Chareonying,
TED Case Studies, April 3, 1997 --
Case Number: 426, Case Mnemonic: MYANSEX, Case Name: www1.american.edu/projects/mandala/TED/myansex.htm [accessed 13 April 2011] Many thousands of
women and children from Child Sexual Expolitation
Statistics Indian NGOs At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] In 1996,
there were almost 200,000 foreign children from 8.3 Policies and Implementations at the
National Level Kritaya Archavanitkul,
Combating the Trafficking in Children and their Exploitation in Prostitution
and Other Intolerable Forms of Child Labour in www.seameo.org/vl/combat/8chap2.htm [accessed 13 April 2011] (3) MYANMAR 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 AIDS Spreading Fifth,
Rehabilitation Activities All
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