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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In the
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** ECPAT: CSEC Overview - Country Report ECPAT International At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 May 2011] Little information is available
specifically on the state of the commercial sexual exploitation of children
in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/gabon.htm [accessed 6 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - A social practice known as “placement” is also reported to be a
problem. According to tradition, poor families send their children to
more affluent homes where the children receive an education in exchange for
performing various services for their host families. However, the
practice has degenerated, and placed children are allegedly trafficked or
subjected to commercial sexual exploitation. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1 February 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/gabon2002.html [accessed 6 February 2011] [64] The Committee is concerned
about the increasing number of child victims of commercial sexual
exploitation, including prostitution and pornography. Concern is also expressed at the
insufficient programs for the physical and psychological recovery and social
reintegration of child victims of such abuse and exploitation. ECPAT: CSEC Overview - Country Report ECPAT International At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 May 2011] Little information is available
specifically on the state of the commercial sexual exploitation of children
in The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/gabon.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - In addition, children from ECPAT: CSEC in ECPAT International Newsletters, Issue No : 34 1/March/2001 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 May 2011] CONFRONTING
THE PROBLEM -
Increasingly governments are willing to acknowledge that CSEC is a growing
problem within their borders, as well as the region, and are making efforts
to combat it. The Togolese government, for example, has developed a national
action plan on child trafficking and child abuse. The Department for the
Protection and Promotion of the Family and of Children has been carrying out
education and sensitization campaigns against sexual exploitation and the
trafficking of children for sexual purposes. In addition, it has been
cooperating with governments of neighboring countries, particularly Gabon, to remedy the situation. New Global Treaty to Combat "Sex Slavery" United Nations Department of Public Information, DPI/2098,
February 2000 -- Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and
the Treatment of Offenders www.un.org/events/10thcongress/2098.htm [accessed 6 February 2011] CHILDREN
SOLD OR KIDNAPPED -
Child victims are easy to come by. In some regions, parents sell their
children to traffickers for ready cash. Or traffickers simply kidnap them.
Kidnapping is especially common in orphanages, where children's photographs
are taken so that future "owners" can choose the child they want.
According to Anti-Slavery International, children aged 8 to 15 years are
"recruited" or kidnapped from backward villages of the poorest
countries in Africa, such as All material used herein
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