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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Prostitution and its Context in AgeOfConsent.com www.ageofconsent.com/comments/numberfifteen.htm [accessed 14 September 2011] A recent round table discussion
between the police, social workers in contact with the prostitution milieu,
and the social counselors for parents and children in crisis, concluded that
there is no child prostitution involving children below the age of consent
(15 years) in ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - DENMARK [PDF] ECPAT 2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-DENMARK.pdf [accessed 7 May 2011] Largely, the prostitution of young
people does not occur within ‘conventional’ settings more widely used to enable
such crimes. Instead, studies appear to indicate that young persons come into
contact with clients either through friends and acquaintances, through the
Internet or through casual encounters. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61645.htm [accessed 1 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS - The
country was both a destination and a transit point for women and children who
were trafficked from the former Soviet Union, Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8 June 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/denmark2001.html [accessed 1 February 2011] [42] The Committee is aware of the
efforts of the State party to prevent and combat sexual abuse and exploitation,
including the recent establishment of an information collection system on
sexual abuse. The Committee is concerned about the lack of awareness about
child abuse and exploitation and the inadequate efforts to address child
pornography. The Committee also notes the need for training for professionals
working with and for child victims of abuse, including police officers,
lawyers and social workers. Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic,
Social, and Cultural Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural
Rights, 14/12/2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/esc/denmark2004.html [accessed 19 September 2011] [9] The Committee welcomes the
adoption in March 2003 of the law on combating child pornography, sexual
exploitation of children and sale of children, and the establishment in
August 2003 of an action plan on combating sexual abuse of children. [19] The Committee notes with
concern that, in spite of the measures taken by the State party, The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/denmark.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - A recent study undertaken by
Save the Children Denmark uncovered two primary purposes for which children
are trafficked to Denmark: for commercial sexual exploitation and for
criminal exploitation, such as pickpocketing and
shoplifting. At least 20 cases of this second form were detected from spring
to December 2003. In that year, police
observed that an increasing number of boys, primarily from Romania, were
being trafficked for criminal exploitation. Many appeared to belong to the
Roma minority. A combination of
trafficking for both purposes can also occur. 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 7 May 2011] [39] In June 2002, Parliament
adopted a bill on new legislation concerning trafficking in human beings, including
children for sexual purposes, in accordance with the EU Framework Decision on
combating trafficking in human beings. The clients of prostitutes
under the age of 18 are criminalized under the Criminal Code with a
maximum term of two years’ imprisonment. Sexual relations with any
child (a) under 15; or (b) under 12, or if coercion or intimidation has been
used, is punishable with imprisonment for a maximum of 6 years or
10 years, respectively.
Legislation concerning child pornography has been amended several
times and the bill planned to be put before Parliament in 2003 is expected to
suggest raising the maximum penalty for distribution and possession of child
pornography and broadening the definition to include material portraying
“representations” of child pornography. An Important Step in Child Centre for Children at Risk in the www.childcentre.info/projects/traffickin/denmark/dbaFile12274.html [accessed 7 May 2011] In September 2005 The Danish
Government made an appendix to the governmental plan of action to combat
trafficking in women. The appendix includes child trafficking, primarily
children trafficked in preparation for sexual exploitation. Trafficking in children in Denmark Red Barnet, Save the Children www.redbarnet.dk/Default.aspx?ID=2209 [Last accessed 1 February 2011] Children are sold to Trafficking in Children to Save the Children www.childcentre.info/projects/traffickin/denmark/dbaFile11026.pdf [accessed 1 February 2011] [page 16] SEXUAL EXPLOITATION - No actual statistics of registered
trafficking victims exist in Denmark, or of trafficking victims of sexual
exploitation. There is disagreement as to the extent to which foreign
children suffer commercial sexual exploitation. Representatives from the
Danish National Police force do not feel that the problem is particularly
widespread, as they have no specific knowledge of trafficking in minors as a
problem in Prostitution and its Context in AgeOfConsent.com www.ageofconsent.com/comments/numberfifteen.htm [accessed 14 September 2011] A recent round table discussion between
the police, social workers in contact with the prostitution milieu, and the
social counselors for parents and children in crisis, concluded that there is
no child prostitution involving children below the age of consent (15 years)
in Commercial Sexual Exploitation
of Children in the Comprehensive report, March 1998 -- Source: The Baltic Sea
States Support Group, Prime Minister's Office S-103 33, Stockholm · Sweden www.sasian.org/legal/baltic/baltic2.htm [accessed 7 May 2011] Statistical data on the issue of
commercial sexual exploitation of children are lacking in every country in
the Baltic Sea Region. DENMARK - It is known to the Police that
occasionally there are prostitutes of the age of 15 or 16 in the streets in
Denmark (Danish National Police). One in 12 children forced into world's 'worst forms' of
labor: UNICEF Agence France-Presse,
www.worldrevolution.org/news/article1773.htm [accessed 20 April 2012] UNICEF UNICEF UK lauded the pledge of
developed countries, made more than 30 years ago, of allocating 0.7 percent
of gross domestic product to development aid but regretted that only five
countries today fulfill that promise -- Denmark,
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