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Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – In 2003
police arrested 67 adults in a Roma encampment outside Paris and charged them
with organizing sexual enslavement of Roma children who were kidnapped from
Romania, brought to the country, raped to make them obey, and sent out on the
streets of Paris and its suburbs to steal and prostitute themselves.
According to press reports, the children were forced to earn $240 (200 euros)
a day or face severe physical punishment. The child‑traffickers
remained in jail awaiting trial at the end of the year. Traffickers of the Romanian
children of Romani descent have traditionally used the children as beggars
and thieves, but many of the children have increasingly turned to or been
forced into prostitution. Police estimated that 90 percent
of the 15 thousand to 18 thousand female prostitutes working in the country
were trafficking victims, and that 3 thousand to 8 thousand children were
forced into prostitution and labor, including begging. In a 2003 report the
UNCHR rapporteur criticized the government for "continuing to deny the
existence and the scale of sexual cruelty against children" with regard
to trafficked children and called for the NCCHR to further investigate the
situation. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2004 [54] The Committee notes that,
following the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children in ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – FRANCE – According to ECPAT France and AFESIP, DOCUMENTS ON RIGHTS OF THE CHILD - According to this information,
children are being trafficked into France primarily from Eastern Europe,
notably Romania, and from West Africa, but also from Asia including such
countries as India and China. Many, if
not most, of these children are under the control of trafficking networks and
are forced into prostitution. ECPAT
France [PDF] 2.
SITUATION OF MINORS IN PROBLEMS
OF DEFINITION - When
taken in charge by the police or social care services, children involved in
prostitution are considered to be at-risk children. Official figures
concerning children are mixed up, and those aged 15 to 18 are not reported as
such. It is explained as a will to avoid traumatizing the child by labeling
him or her as a prostitute. Lastly, children under 15 are prone to more
covert prostitution qualified as pedophilia and therefore escape the
prostitution statistics. All child sex assaults are reported as sexual abuse,
not prostitution. Moreover, some prostitution related-facts are considered as
pedophilia, not prostitution. The result is that Dozens
convicted of pedophilia in France France Child Sex Case In
Disarray The trial of 13 people in northern
The Family Court
Cases in France, 1991-2000 On June 9th, 1993, at 6 A.M., two
hundred heavily armed police staged brutal raids on two Family communities in
Eguilles and Lyon. Authorities arrested 22 adults and placed 80 children in
state custody. Family members were accused of child abuse, child
prostitution, and not providing medical and physical care for their children. Air
France Video Against Child Sex Tourism Since 15 March 1999, AIR SUMMARY - The report focuses on the sale
of children in the context of trafficking of children and child prostitution,
and on child pornography and its links with domestic child sexual abuse. Concerning the sale of children,
trafficking and child prostitution, the report relates information presented
to the Special Rapporteur by the Children’s Ombudsman (Défenseure
des enfants), the police, NGOs, as well as
government ministries. According to
this information, children are being trafficked into France primarily from
Eastern Europe, notably Romania, and from West Africa, but also from
Asia including such countries as India and China. Many, if not most, of these children are
under the control of trafficking networks and are forced into
prostitution. The Government of France
is starting to work with the authorities of the countries concerned, in
particular with Romania with which it signed a bilateral agreement in 2001
with respect to returning children. V.
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 76. Prostitution is reportedly growing rapidly, but the
regular use of minors as prostitutes is a relatively new phenomenon and new
legislation has been introduced to ensure that the clients of child prostitutes
will be arrested. The Special
Rapporteur commends the Government of France for its efforts not to
criminalize the children concerned by subjecting them to detention, and
recognizes the difficulties it is facing in protecting such children from
continuing in prostitution. 77. Many foreign children are involved in
prostitution. Most of the children in
prostitution are controlled by pimps, some of whom live in another country
and control the prostitution by cell phone from abroad, usually getting an
older child to supervise the younger victims. 78. Concerning child sex tourism, the Government of
France is taking measures to combat these offences being committed abroad by
French citizens. The Government has
adopted extraterritorial legislation to increase the chances of their being
arrested and brought to trial, and all government representatives abroad have
been instructed to collaborate with local police on these cases. There were no reports of sex tourism within
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