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by: Muireann O’Briain, Anke van den Borne & Theo Noten, ECPAT Europe Law
Enforcement Group, Programme against Trafficking in Children for Sexual
Purposes in Europe, Amsterdam, 2004 -- ISBN: 90-74270-19-0 www.childcentre.info/projects/traffickin/dbaFile11169.pdf [accessed
6 May 2011] [page 33] A phenomenon in the 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 At Border Kathleen
Moore, Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1104821.html [accessed
6 May 2011] 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 *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - CZECH REPUBLIC [PDF] ECPAT
2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-CZECH_REPUBLIC.pdf [accessed
6 May 2011] The prostitution of children in
the 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. UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/crepublic_statistics.html [accessed
6 May 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/czech-republic.htm [accessed 31 January 2011] 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 Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61644.htm [accessed 31 January 2011] 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) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 31 January 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/czechrepublic2003.html [accessed 31 January 2011] [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 Ceske Noviny, 20.12.2007 www.karlovy-vary-czech-republic.com/article-323772-en.html [accessed
6 May 2011] 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 Danuta Kean, Mail Online, 21 April
2007 www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-449607/The-squalid-truth-girl-lit.html [accessed
6 May 2011] 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. Joint East West Research on Trafficking in Children for
Sexual Purposes in Edited
by: Muireann O’Briain, Anke van den Borne & Theo Noten,
ECPAT Europe Law Enforcement Group, Programme
against Trafficking in Children for Sexual Purposes in Europe, Amsterdam,
2004 -- ISBN: 90-74270-19-0 www.childcentre.info/projects/traffickin/dbaFile11169.pdf [accessed
6 May 2011] [page 33]
A phenomenon in the 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. 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 – Report by Special Rapporteur [DOC] UN
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
6 May 2011] [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 News item, 03 June
2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 September 2011] A study supported by UNICEF in the
Stolen Youth: Child Prostitution Plagues German-Czech
Border Deutsche Welle DW-WORLD.DE,
29.10.2003 www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1016270,00.html [accessed 1 April 2011] The children wait by supermarkets,
restaurants and gas stations along the Czech motorways just across the border
from "Young children less than six
years old are offered to the sex tourists by women, whereas the older ones are
usually accompanied by men or male teenagers," Schauer
said. "But eight-year-olds come along on their own and do their own
negotiations about payment and sexual practices." UNICEF Stirs Controversy With Claims Of Widespread Child
Prostitution At Border Kathleen
Moore, Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1104821.html [accessed
6 May 2011] 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 Andrew Satter, The At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 14 September 2011] 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 Jennifer
Anne Perez for The At one
time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed
6 May 2011] 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 Ray
Furlong in news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/846226.stm [accessed
6 May 2011] Details have been emerging of a
new plan drawn up by the German campaign against child prostitution in the Czech
Republic Nick
Carey, Radio www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/german-campaign-against-child-prostitution-in-the-czech-republic [accessed
6 May 2011] The German government has launched
a campaign to fight child prostitution in the Up To
Ten Thousand Czech Children Go Missing Every Year Dita Asiedu, Radio [accessed
6 May 2011] 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 in the Sanchia Berg, BBC-Radio4-Today, 6 May 2011 www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/archive/international/czech_paedophilia.shtml [accessed
6 May 2011] The town of Cheb in the Czech
Republic is well known as a beautiful place, its old town square full of
pastel-washed houses dating back to the eleventh century. But in recent
years, it's gained a different reputation - as a centre for child
prostitution. Reporters working undercover for the Today program were offered
girls of 9 and 11 for sex when they posed as German tourists. All material used herein
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