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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs GOVERNMENT
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Government adopted the National Plan Combating
Commercial Sexual Abuse in July 2000, and the Interior Ministry’s Crime
Prevention Division launched a national media campaign on the dangers of
trafficking, and a school-based awareness program for children aged 13 to 14
years. INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The popular press and government reports indicate that commercial
sexual exploitation, including the involvement of children in sex tourism, is
a problem. There are some reports of internal trafficking of Czech children
from areas of low employment near border regions with Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Children were engaged in
prostitution for survival without third party involvement. NGOs have reported
that many teenage prostitutes were either runaways or products of orphanages
and the foster care system. Some NGOs asserted that orphanages did not prepare
young teens adequately to be self‑sufficient upon reaching legal
adulthood. A special police team was formed in 2004 specifically to deal with
the sexual exploitation of children in Cheb, a town on the German border
where sex tourism was a problem. Male adolescents, some as young as
13 years old, engaged in prostitution for survival. NGOs that worked with
these children attributed the problem to a dysfunctional foster care system
that failed to provide adequate job skills for a modern economy while preventing
unwanted children from being adopted by capable parents. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2003 [60] The Committee welcomes: (a) The establishment in spring of
2002 of a trilateral Czech-German-Polish working group to address, inter
alia, trafficking in human beings, in particular the sexual exploitation of
children for prostitution occurring in these areas; (b) The information contained in
the State party’s report (paras. 334 and 335) on social, preventive and
re-socialization programs for victims of sexual exploitation, as well as the
adoption in July 2000 of the National Plan to Fight Commercial Sexual Abuse
of Children and amendments to the Criminal Code and Code of Criminal
Procedure made in 2002; (c) The significant work done by
NGOs in this field. The
squalid truth about call girl lit When Aneta was offered a job
across the border from her Czech village, she jumped at the chance. The
pretty 17-year-old was to be a nanny for a rich family. Petr, the handsome man who recruited her,
promised she would travel with them to London, America even. "You'll get
to practise your English," he joked.
The next day Aneta, along with ten other local girls, met Petr on the
edge of their village, handed over their passports and climbed into a waiting
people carrier. It was to be the longest journey of their lives. Hours later when the van came to a
juddering halt, instead of a family, a group of rough-looking men were
waiting. They had guns and dogs, which
they used to bundle the girls, some as
young as 14, out of the van and into a dank cellar where they ordered
them to strip naked and stand in line.
The men moved along the line grabbing the women roughly, inspecting
their teeth, their breasts and between their legs. The girls were
crying. "We were just
horseflesh," Aneta recalls. Each was dragged from the room at gunpoint
and gang raped. Within days they were smuggled across Europe to work in
brothels. [page 33]
A phenomenon in the Czech Republic, described by the NGO ENYA, is the
so-called "gayfriendly family houses", where sex tourists can rent
rooms and along with the room they get a prostituted minor boy. Many young
boys also travel abroad for short periods with tourists from Austria,
Germany, Greece and other places. Clients are described in the report as
mostly ‘normal’ citizens, average men, from all social classes, but mainly
middle class. There is a special group of clients who are paedophiles, and
they come from all over the world, but are mostly German. The Czech Vice
Squad says that ‘very high’ prices are paid by paedophiles for prostitutes
who are less than 15 years of age. The purchase of very young children for
€20,000 is mentioned in the research. But some children are paid with sweets
or toys. Clients get information from the
Internet, and from personal contact. Children who are used in prostitution
are also used for the making of pornography. Many paedophiles film their
sexual intercourse with minors, and then distribute it on the Internet. ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] [37] In July 2002, amendments were
made to the Penal Code to bring Czech law concerning trafficking of children
and child pornography into line with European law and the OP/SOC, which is
expected to be ratified soon. The procurement of children for
prostitution, or the profit from child prostitution is punishable under the
Penal Code, and the phenomenon is particularly problematic in large urban areas
and in the regions bordering Children at risk between Eastern and Western European borders A study supported by UNICEF in the Czech Republic has
provided evidence that children are still being sexually exploited, mainly by
sex tourists from Germany and Austria, in the border region between the Czech
Republic, Germany and Austria. In a common appeal to governments in the
region, UNICEF Austria, Czech Republic and Germany, together with the child
rights organisation ecpat, have issued a call for action and criticized
governments for not fulfilling their commitments. UNICEF
Stirs Controversy With Claims Of Widespread Child Prostitution - 2003 Report For 12-year-old Karel, it was
poverty that drove him into prostitution.
"Before, I used to beg from the Germans in their cars. We have no money at home," he told
social workers. "Then I just
drove away with them." Karel is
just one of a growing number of boys and girls living off prostitution in the
Czech-German border area, according to a report released yesterday by the UN
International Children's Education Fund (UNICEF) and ECPAT, an international
children's rights organization. Child-Prostitution Claims Disputed - UNICEF stands by report alleging border trafficking In late October the German branch
of UNICEF released a report by the German social-work agency KARO asserting
that the borderlands are home to widespread pedophilia and child
prostitution. Czech officials said that KARO is home to a self-promoting
writer seeking to exploit the issue for publicity purposes. Tourist
Authority, Police Target Sex Tourists Months after an explosive report
portrayed Czech border towns as havens for underage sex, the Czech Tourist
Authority (CTA) and police have begun a campaign that puts pay-for-sex
pedophiles on notice and attempts to steer them toward the country's more
wholesome attractions. Czech Challenge to Child Prostitution Details have been emerging of a new
plan drawn up by the German campaign against child prostitution in the Czech Republic The German government has launched
a campaign to fight child prostitution in the Up To Ten Thousand Czech
Children Go Missing Every Year Although most missing children are
found, in the short time they spend out on the streets, they are at a very
high risk of being abused. Most of them are street children without any money
or food and they are prepared to accept any offer in order to survive even to
be in a pornographic video tape or be clients of pedophiles." Pedophilia
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