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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Alberto Mendoza, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS,
Guatemala City, Oct 13, 2006 www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35100 [accessed 20 May 2011] Sexual exploitation of minors is not classified as a crime in Guatemala, where activists say child sex tourism is on the rise, and the toughest penalty for "corruption of minors" and "aggravated procuring" is a 400 dollar fine. "I had problems at home, and a girlfriend took me to work with her in a bar." That is how Alba, at the age of 14, began to be sexually exploited in a brothel on the outskirts of the Guatemalan capital. Her mother was demanding that she bring money home, and she saw it as a way to earn an income. For Alba's family, which is poor, the 160 dollars a month that she brought home was an important source of income. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/guatemala.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Street children tend to be especially vulnerable to sexual
exploitation and other forms of violence, constituting a serious problem in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61729.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS -
Trafficking was particularly a problem in the capital and in towns along the
borders with Human Rights Reports » 2003
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27900.htm [accessed 28 February 2011] CHILDREN - Child prostitution was
especially a problem in the capital and in the towns of Escuintla,
Tecun Uman, and Coban. Child prostitution in towns along the borders with
Concluding Observations of the
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8 June 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/guatemala2001.html [accessed 8 February 2011] [52] While noting that the
National Plan against Sexual and Commercial Exploitation is in the final
stages of elaboration, the Committee expresses its deep concern that, with
regard to the increasing phenomenon of commercial sexual exploitation of
children, in particular girls, there are no data available, legislation is
inadequate, cases involving sexually exploited children are often not
investigated and prosecuted, and no rehabilitation programs are available. Child Trafficking Soar in Prensa Latina News Agency, Jul 23, 2007 genderberg.com/boards/viewtopic.php?t=2522 [accessed 8 February 2011] Maria Eugenia Villareal,
member of the NGO, said girls aged eight to fourteen are sold as sex slaves
or used in risky sectors like garbage collection and classification, peddling
and construction. Attorney Alex Colop
calls serious problem the absence of laws with severe sanctions for such practices
since the perpetrators walk free on bail or pay a fine. In addition, the children do not press
charges fearing threats from the exploiters or to loose their income source. Alberto Mendoza, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35100 [accessed 20 May 2011] Sexual exploitation of minors is
not classified as a crime in Guatemala, where activists say child sex tourism
is on the rise, and the toughest penalty for "corruption of minors"
and "aggravated procuring" is a 400 dollar fine. "I had problems at home, and
a girlfriend took me to work with her in a bar." That is how Alba, at
the age of 14, began to be sexually exploited in a brothel on the outskirts
of the Guatemalan capital. Her mother was demanding that she bring money
home, and she saw it as a way to earn an income. For Alba's family, which is poor, the 160
dollars a month that she brought home was an important source of income. 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 – Child Prostitution: A Growing Scourge W. E. Gutman, The www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_10/issue_07/travel_01.html [accessed 20 May 2011] A REGION
OUT OF CONTROL - At least 5,000 minors live in the streets of The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/guatemala.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - A United Nations report reveals
that about 2,000 prostituted minors were working in Human Rights Internet, For
The Record 2002 - The United Nations Human Rights System, Volume 4: Latin
America & the At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 September 2011] The Committee expressed concern
about the following elements, inter alia:
the apparent lack of coordination between numerous national mechanisms at various
levels aimed at institutionalizing women's rights and gender mainstreaming;
the fact that, while the Constitution refers to the principle of equality,
the terms "equity" and "equality" appear to be used
synonymously in the government's reports and programmes;
the ambiguity of laws dealing with prostitution, particularly child
prostitution; the high level of child prostitution and sexual exploitation of
minors. ECPAT-USA Testifies Before the U
S Senate Sharon L. Wallenberg, Main www.usservas.org/UN%20Reports/un_summer_2002.htm [accessed 20 May 2011] CASA ALIANZA, A CENTRAL AMERICAN
NGO - Instead of the
children being sent to an adequate home for trafficked victims, the six girls
– as young as 14 and one of them pregnant – were sent to the Crack Blamed For Rise In Central
American Child Prostitution The Associated Press www.latinamericanstudies.org/guatemala/crack.htm [accessed 20 May 2011] It didn't used to be so hard for
girls on the street to get drugs such as glue, but the higher price of crack
has induced more children into prostitution.
Nowhere has child prostitution taken off like in If You Turn Up Dead, No One Will
Wonder Why Diego Cevallos, Inter Press
Service News Agency ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=27817 [accessed 20 May 2011] According to Capellín,
who provided IPS with some data from the upcoming report, the researchers
found minors under 18 years of age working as
prostitutes in all of the 50 brothels they visited in All material used herein
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