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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Sexual exploitation of minors taints Vanessa Arrington, Associated Press AP Worldstream,
www.childtrafficking.org/pdf/user/colombia_11_11.doc [accessed 2 May 2011] The city has become a magnet for men, many of them Europeans, seeking sex with young girls and sometimes boys, many of them from families displaced from their rural homes by fighting among leftist rebels, government forces and right-wing paramilitary groups. An estimated 1,500 girls and boys work in Cartagena's sex industry. Over the last three years, Renacer has learned of girls as young as 7 and boys as young as 9 being sexually exploited, Cardenas says. "The kids are on the street because of desperation," says Bruce Harris, the former Latin America director of Casa Alianza, a children's rights group. "The last thing they have to sell is themselves. This is mixed with the fact that the laws for the most part are still very weak, and there's corruption in the application of the law." Bolivar Province's police chief, Col. Jesus Gomez, who oversees Cartagena, says detectives are investigating criminal sex rings in the city, but have yet to make any arrests. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/colombia.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are involved in commercial sexual exploitation in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61721.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] SECTION 6 WORKER RIGHTS – [d] Although there were no
reports of forced child labor in the formal economy, several thousand
children were forced to serve as paramilitary or guerrilla combatants, prostitutes, or coca pickers. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 October 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/colombia2000.html [accessed 30 January 2011] [67] While noting with appreciation
the revisions to the State party's Penal Code and the establishment of a
national plan of action to combat and prevent the sexual exploitation of
children, the Committee remains concerned at the insufficient awareness among
the population of these issues. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report on
implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – COLOMBIA – The National Plan of Action against the Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children in Colombia (Plan de Acción
en favor de los Derechos
de la Infancia Explotada Sexualmente y contra la Explotación
Sexual Infantil) is not being implemented.
According to the ICBF, which had main responsibility for the plan, it has
been developed in an isolated manner and according to the competencies of
each institution involved. As a
consequence, the ICBF says it has not been possible to measure its impact.
The Inter-institutional Committee to fight the trafficking of women, girls
and boys is putting into practice a plan for the prevention and protection of
victims and to stop the trafficking of persons. Combating Child Prostitution in Garry Leech, Colombia Journal, April 29, 2002 -- Origininal Source: Colombia Report, an online journal
published by the Information Network of the Americas INOTA colombiajournal.org/combating-child-prostitution-in-colombia.htm [accessed 2 May 2011] Many parents send their children
out into the streets to help support the family by stealing, selling chewing
gum and cigarettes, or worse, selling themselves. It is estimated that there are 35,000 children
working as prostitutes in Soaring Child Prostitution In BBC News World Service, 27 January, 2001 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1138712.stm [accessed 2 May 2011] Clients were often middle-aged
foreigners who paid the child-prostitutes around six US dollars. Victims were
often addicted to drugs and were as young as nine years old. BBC News, 13 December, 2001 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1708260.stm [accessed 2 May 2011] The mayor of Bogata
has imposed a nighttime curfew on minors to clamp down on child prostitution
and reduce crime rates in the Colombian capital. Children under the age of 16 on the streets
after 11pm will be arrested. Government Is Combatting the Culture of Violence in Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), 25th session, Press
Release, 27 September 2000 www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/6469234DEE795835C12569680026170F?opendocument [accessed 2 May 2011] The culture of violence which
prevailed in Ashoka Fellow Profile - Stella Cárdenas Ovalle This profile was prepared when Stella Cárdenas Ovalle was elected to the Ashoka
Fellowship in 2001 [accessed 2 May 2011] THE PROBLEM- A series of factors put children
at risk for sexual exploitation in Reuters, 26 September 1998 www.latinamericanstudies.org/colombia/prostitution.htm [accessed 2 May 2011] Twenty-nine adults were arrested
in the swoop and Sexual exploitation of minors taints Vanessa Arrington, Associated Press AP Worldstream,
www.childtrafficking.org/pdf/user/colombia_11_11.doc [accessed 2 May 2011] The city has become a magnet for
men, many of them Europeans, seeking sex with young girls and sometimes boys,
many of them from families displaced from their rural homes by fighting among
leftist rebels, government forces and right-wing paramilitary groups. An estimated 1,500 girls and boys
work in Cartagena's sex industry. Over the last
three years, Renacer has learned of girls as young
as 7 and boys as young as 9 being sexually exploited, Cardenas says. "The kids are on the street
because of desperation," says Bruce Harris, the former Latin America
director of Casa Alianza, a children's rights
group. "The last thing they have to sell is themselves. This is mixed
with the fact that the laws for the most part are still very weak, and
there's corruption in the application of the law." Bolivar Province's police chief, Col. Jesus
Gomez, who oversees Cartagena, says detectives are
investigating criminal sex rings in the city, but have yet to make any
arrests. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/colombia.doc [accessed 2009] GOVERNMENT RESPONSES - The Ombudsman’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office conducted a study on the prostitution of women and children. The National Police of Colombia runs a prevention program called Colombia without Prostitution. This program is designed to prevent child prostitution through educational activities for families and the community. In collaboration with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the government also created a Plan of Action on Child Sexual Abuse. All material used herein
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