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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In
the early years of the 21st Century
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** (III) Mussie Hadgu , Asmarino Independent, 16 April 2009 [accessed 12 May 2011] COPING STRATEGIES THAT ARE COMMON
BOTH TO URBAN AND RURAL SETTING AREA 7. Prostitution and child labour:
As the bread winners of the households are absent, families resort to sending
their children to work in different economic activities such as restaurants,
bars, and other activities such as being street vendors. Some of the underage
girls finally end up as sex workers. Many adult women also resort to the
prostitution as a coping strategy. However, as the government targets and
sends the sex workers and children who are street vendors or street children
or any child or adult person out of school to military training, mere
observation of the number of sex workers and of children engaged in the above
mentioned activities does not give the actual picture of the scale of child
labour and prostitution in the country. - sccp ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2006 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/tda/tda2006/eritrea.pdf [accessed 4 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In Human Rights Reports » 2008
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/119000.htm [accessed 4 February 2011] CHILDREN - The law criminalizes child
prostitution, pornography, and sexual exploitation; however, there were
reports that children participated in prostitution. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/eritrea.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Most reported cases of
trafficking in persons in FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - The 4,200-strong United Nations Mission to Ethiopia and Eritrea
(UNMEE), composed of United Nations soldiers and military observers, has been
deployed in the buffer zone between Ethiopia and Eritrea since the signing of
the peace accords in December 2000.
The presence of these troops has worried many Eritreans,
who are concerned about the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus. Their fears were
heightened by reports from Cambodia that peacekeepers had helped spread HIV
there. Foreign soldiers have been
accused of purchasing sex from Eritrean children. Worst Forms of Child Labour Data www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/eritrea.html [accessed 12 May 2011] CHILD
PROSTITUTION AND PORNOGRAPHY GENERAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS - In 1999, the Ministry of Labour
and Human Welfare carried out a survey on commercial sex workers in the
country. Although the study was on commercial sex workers in general and not
child commercial sex workers in particular, the results of the survey threw
some light on the extent and nature of child prostitution in the country. The
survey revealed that 5% of sex workers surveyed were children between the
ages of 14-17 years. It also indicated that a majority of the children
entered the trade at an early age, with most of them starting off as street
children and bar maids. Reports indicate that child prostitution is on the
increase in the country. (III) Mussie Hadgu , Asmarino Independent, 16 April 2009 [accessed 12 May 2011] COPING STRATEGIES THAT ARE COMMON
BOTH TO URBAN AND RURAL SETTING AREA 7. Prostitution and child labour:
As the bread winners of the households are absent, families resort to sending
their children to work in different economic activities such as restaurants, bars,
and other activities such as being street vendors. Some of the underage girls
finally end up as sex workers. Many adult women also resort to the
prostitution as a coping strategy. However, as the government targets and
sends the sex workers and children who are street vendors or street children
or any child or adult person out of school to military training, mere
observation of the number of sex workers and of children engaged in the above
mentioned activities does not give the actual picture of the scale of child
labour and prostitution in the country. – sccp All material used herein
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