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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/djibouti.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Displaced women and children fleeing
conflict between Child prostitution is on the rise in Djibouti. A government study, conducted in conjunction with UNICEF, found that 73.3 percent of street children were Ethiopian and that over a quarter of these children were exploited in the commercial sex industry. Most are girls from the Dire-Dawa region of Ethiopia. They are often brought by other girls to brothels, where they are forced into prostitution. In Djibouti’s most famous sex venue, Rue d’Ethiopie, children age 11 to 16 are forced to engage in prostitution. - htsccp ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/djibouti.html [accessed 8 May 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/djibouti.htm [accessed 1 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In urban areas, children often work in the informal sector in small-scale
family businesses, trade, catering, crafts, or as domestic servants. Children
displaced from Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61566.htm [accessed 1 February 2011] CHILDREN – Child prostitution existed. Some
children that immigrated to the country for economic reasons engaged in
prostitution to survive. There was no known system of organized pimps who
exploited children; however, older children sometimes acted as
"protectors" and took a portion of other children's earnings as a
fee." Concluding Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of
The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2 June 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/djibouti2000.html [accessed 27 February 2011] [45] The Committee is concerned
about the exposure of older children in the State party, particularly those
living on the street or working in port areas and along truck routes, to
sexual exploitation and to sexually transmitted diseases, including the risk
of HIV infection. The Committee is also concerned that girls married at a
young age may not have sufficient access to family planning services and
counseling. [57] The Committee is concerned
about the high and apparently increasing incidence of prostitution involving
children, in particular girls, and about the lack of facilities to provide
services to sexually exploited children. [58] In the light of article 34
and other related articles of the Convention, the Committee recommends that
the State party undertake studies with a view to designing and implementing
appropriate policies and measures, including to promote the physical and
psychological recovery and social reintegration of child victims of sexual
exploitation, and to preventing and combating the sexual exploitation of
children while avoiding the criminalization of child victims. In this regard,
the Committee encourages the State party to take into account the
recommendations formulated in the Agenda for Action adopted at the World
Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/djibouti.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Displaced women and children
fleeing conflict between Child prostitution is on the rise
in Djibouti. A government study, conducted in conjunction with UNICEF, found
that 73.3 percent of street children were Ethiopian and that over a quarter
of these children were exploited in the commercial sex industry. Most are
girls from the Dire-Dawa region of Ethiopia. They
are often brought by other girls to brothels, where they are forced into
prostitution. In Djibouti’s most famous sex venue, Rue d’Ethiopie,
children age 11 to 16 are forced to engage in prostitution. - htsccp Commercial Sexual Exploitation
of Children - Middle East/ UNICEF: www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 8 May 2011] These countries also have in
common, however, a number of constraints that have hindered preparation of
national plans of action. In all the countries of the region, there is
cultural resistance to addressing the problem because the subject is largely
taboo. Five Years After ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 8 May 2011] [page 45] United Nations
Population Fund Country Program Outline For Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and of the United Nations Population Fund, 30
September 2002 -- DP/FPA/DJI/2 www.unfpa.org/exbrd/2002/final/dpfpadji2.pdf [accessed 8 May 2011] 12. Drought, poverty and frequent
conflicts in the region encourage urban migration. Overburdened urban areas are home to
growing numbers of street children.
The pervasive poverty contributes to the number of commercial sex
workers, as does the presence of many soldiers, dockworkers and truck drivers
travelling the Djibouti-Addis Ababa highway.
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