C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
2025 gvnet.com/childprostitution/Egypt.htm
|
|||||||||||
|
CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of
particular interest to you. You might
be interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and
how some succeed in leaving. Perhaps
your paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their
leaving. Other factors of interest
might be poverty, rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction,
hunger, neglect, etc. On the other hand,
you might choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who
control this activity. There is a lot
to the subject of Child Prostitution.
Scan other countries as well as this one. Draw comparisons between activity in
adjacent countries and/or regions.
Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims National Council for Childhood and
Motherhood ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** A Situational
Analysis of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Karam Saber, ECPAT
International: Report on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in
Egypt, March 2003 www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/ecpat_2003_situational_analysis_studies_cse_children_egypt_3.pdf [accessed 10 May
2011] [2.1.2]
Prostitution - There is evidence that prostitution is spreading in ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Renata Coccaro, ECPAT International, 2008 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Global_Monitoring_Report-EGYPT.pdf [accessed 27 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Egypt. The
report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive measures, child
and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes recommendations for action
against SEC. Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/egypt/ [accessed 27 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law provides for sentences of not less than five
years’ imprisonment and fines of up to LE 200,000 ($12,120) for conviction of
commercial sexual exploitation of children and child pornography. The
government did not adequately enforce the law. The minimum age for consensual
sex is age 18. 2018 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 27 August
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 463] Some girls are
subjected to commercial sexual exploitation under the pretext of temporary
marriage to wealthy foreign men, mostly from Persian Gulf countries. (4,13,30) In the past 2 years, Egyptian children were
trafficked to Italy, where they were used for bonded child labor, commercial
sexual exploitation, and illicit activities. (11,29,32-37) Although the
numbers decreased in 2017, and further in 2018, approximately 930
unaccompanied Egyptian children were registered in Italy in 2018 and another
300 had escaped from their shelters in Italy. Some Egyptian children
continued to fall victim to labor exploitation in agriculture and food
services, and some were sexually exploited. (38) Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 26 January 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/egypt2001.html [accessed 27
February 2011] [51] The Committee
is concerned at the insufficient data and awareness of the phenomenon of
commercial sexual exploitation of children in Egypt. 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 – EGYPT
– In Egypt the subject of CSEC is still very sensitive and considered to be a
personal matter. Thus, the government, as well as local NGOs, are confronted
by cultural as well as traditional obstacles in constructively and
practically dealing with the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
Moreover, the particular problem of CSEC has traditionally not been a
priority as it considered to be limited in extent. Accordingly, there is still insufficient
data and awareness concerning the phenomenon. Child Protection - United Nations
Children's Fund UNICEF At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 May
2011] These children lead
an unhealthy and often dangerous life that leaves them deprived of their
basic needs for protection, guidance, and supervision and exposes them to
different forms of exploitation and abuse. For many, survival on the street
means begging and sexual exploitation by adults. Commercial
sexual exploitation of children - Middle East/ based on the
situation analysis written by Dr Najat M’jid for the
Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Rabat, Morocco,
24-26 October 2001 -- Source document (in French): Rapport sur la situation
de l’exploitation sexuelle
des enfants dans la région MENA, 10 septembre 2001 www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 10 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. Often the issue is
dealt with more generally under headings such as ‘violence’ and
‘trauma’. This means that there has
been no regional consensus on defining CSEC in law; in some countries, for
example, it is looked upon as an indecent act, in others as rape, although in
all 20 countries there is some section of the penal code that can be invoked
against sexual abuse and exploitation. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - EGYPT [PDF] ECPAT 2008 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/MENA/Global_Monitoring_Report-EGYPT.pdf [accessed 10 May
2011] Limited information
is available on the extent and manifestations of commercial sexual
exploitation of children (CSEC) in In addition, girls
aged between 15 and 18 who fall victim to commercial sexual exploitation may
not be viewed as victims. In many cases, girls and women who are sexually
abused are perceived by some as being responsible for the violence they
suffered and thought to have been careless in protecting themselves. Some qualitative
and quantitative research has been conducted to examine the abuse and sexual
exploitation of girls. This includes a study undertaken by ECPAT
International in 2003 which investigated 16 police and media reports on
“sexual violence perpetrated against children”, which in some cases involved
commercial sexual exploitation. Despite the small sample, it was noted that
some of the victims were girls under the age of 10 and generally from poor neighbourhoods. While there is some evidence that
prostitution in general is spreading in Egypt, possibly on a broad scale,
in-depth research has been difficult to conduct due to a deeply ingrained
fear of legal and social punishment, which often results in a denial of the
problem. The prostitution of children is even more difficult to document. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/egypt.htm [accessed 3 February
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Street children are particularly vulnerable to
becoming involved in illicit activities, including stealing, smuggling, pornography,
and prostitution. In particular, the commercial sexual exploitation of
children is greatly under-acknowledged given that Egyptian cities ( All material
used herein reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107 for
noncommercial, nonprofit, and educational use. PLEASE RESPECT COPYRIGHTS OF COMPONENT
ARTICLES. Cite this webpage as: Patt,
Prof. Martin, "Child Prostitution - |
