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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** [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. 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. ***
ARCHIVES *** www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-CZECH_REPUBLIC.pdf The prostitution of children in
the Czech Republic has reportedly decreased in the last few years, partly due
to the strengthening of the social security system and protection measures.
The problem is now more evident in Prague, where the situation remains
unchanged, particularly in railway stations. On the other hand, the
prostitution of boys is increasing, apparently connected to a growing drug
problem, as many boys become involved in prostitution or pornography to
finance their addiction. Prostitution of children is particularly problematic
in large urban centres, and in the border areas
near Germany and Austria because of sex tourism, as clients can easily cross
the border to exploit children sexually. However, child sex tourism (CST)
now occurs to a much lesser extent than it did a few years ago. The situation
began to improve after the Czech Republic became a member of the European
Union and law enforcement was considerably strengthened in the border areas.
At present, child sex tourism seems to be more related to the prostitution of
boys, as older men from Scandinavia, Britain, Germany and Austria are travelling to the Czech Republic with the intention of
sexually exploiting boys in particular. In addition, many young boys travel
abroad for short periods with, among others, tourists from Austria, Germany
and Greece. Very few Czech citizens are involved in CST abroad. U.S.
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. Number of abused, prostituting children growing in Czech Republic www.karlovy-vary-czech-republic.com/article-323772-en.html www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=287827 Since 2004, the ministry has
annually registered more than 1000 cases of abused children, but these are
only reported cases and they should not necessarily reflect the real state of
affairs. According to the ministry's
previous statistics, at least 7500 cases of physical and psychological abuse
as well as sexual exploitation of children were registered last year, Vanickova said.
She said it was impossible to count all the children who have become
victims of commercial sexual exploitation. 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] 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] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – CZECH REPUBLIC – In July 2000, the Czech Government approved the
National Plan for the Fight Against Commercial Child Sex Abuse, as developed
by the Ministry of Interior-Prevention of Criminality Department. The plan
has four main objectives and each one lists proposed measures, implementing
institutions and expected results. The objectives are: improving the
legislative framework; improving cooperation in the areas of education and
prevention (law enforcers, educational institutions, etc.); enhancing the
effectiveness of criminal prosecution and reinforcing the protection of
victims and witnesses and the process of victim re-socialisation. 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 www.praguepost.com/P03/2003/Art/1106/news2.php At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 www.praguepost.com/P03/2004/Art/0401/news7.php At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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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