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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/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/06/MN11926.DTL [accessed 25 January 2011] 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 *** 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 - 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/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/06/MN11926.DTL [accessed 25 January 2011] 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
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