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FEATURED ARTICLE *** If You Turn Up Dead, No One Will Wonder Why Diego Cevallos,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=27817 [accessed 23 May 2011] These girls, boys
and teenagers are offered up as "merchandise" in brothels,
photographed nude for Internet websites, or forced to perform in live sex
shows. Most are poor, and all are utterly denied their right to a safe and
happy childhood. In ***
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the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/honduras.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - There is evidence of child prostitution in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61732.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Women and children were trafficked into Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
4 June 1999 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/honduras1999.html [accessed 28 February 2011] [34]. While the
Committee takes note of the reforms to the Penal Code and of the training
given to the municipal children's defenders to prevent and combat sexual
abuse and exploitation of children, it expresses concern at the absence of
data and of a comprehensive study on the issue of sexual commercial
exploitation of children as well as the lack of a national plan of action to
tackle this issue. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social,
and Cultural Rights, 21/05/2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/esc/honduras2001.html [accessed 19 September 2011] [20] The Committee
is alarmed about the high number of children who are forced to work to
support themselves, and in particular about the serious situation of street
children and the existence of street gangs (maras).
In this regard, the Committee is also gravely concerned about the high
incidence of sexual abuse, exploitation and prostitution of children in the
State party, and about the lack of a national plan to address these issues. [40] The Committee
urges the State party to undertake urgent measures to introduce
rehabilitation programs for street children. The Committee also urges the
State party to address the issue of sexual abuse, exploitation and
prostitution of children by adopting a national plan to combat the problem,
including collecting relevant data and conducting a thorough study of the
issue. Catch a falling star W. E. www.marrder.com/htw/jul97/editorial.htm [accessed 23 May 2011] [scroll down to Monday, July
14, 1997 Online Edition 62] CHEMISTRY OF PROMISCUITY - Representatives
of Casa del Niño, where I first learned about Chusito,
mince no words. "La Ceiba is the hub for child
prostitution. Tourists, possibly members of a loose organized crime confereration, regularly come to Honduras to exploit
minors. While there is no open child prostitution per se, networks exist that
supply children to pedophiles. The center is near the Parthenon Beach Hotel.
Many of the girls are well under 16. There is a street for boys, too...
Carnivals and other events attract large numbers of visitors who exercise
great stealth, pay cash and command the silence of their accomplices." According to Casa
del Niño, there are about 50 homeless children in La Ceiba,
an overly conservative estimate by their own accounting. "We've really
no way of knowing. Most are between 10 and 16. Most are boys. Illiteracy,
irresponsible paternity are all at work. Some families have not a gram of
conscience when it comes to procreation. Use of Resistol
among them is universal. It's sold freely in the Centro Commercial. Pimps and
sex tourists often pay the children with cans of the deadly shoe glue. It's a
case of turpitude further debased by criminal indifference...." - sccp Alberto Mendoza, Inter Press Service News
Agency www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35100 [accessed 23 May 2011] But hers is not an
isolated case. Although no precise figures are available, in 2002 it was
estimated that 2,000 minors were sexually exploited in Guatemala City alone,
according to a report by Casa Alianza (the Latin
American branch of the New York-based Covenant House, a child advocacy organisation) and ECPAT (an international NGO working to
end child prostitution, child pornography and the trafficking of children). Of those 2,000
minors, 1,200 were from El Salvador,
500 from Honduras and 300 from Guatemala itself. María
Eugenia Villarreal, ECPAT director for Latin America, says Central America is
a hub for trafficking in minors, child pornography and sex tourism. 10 Indicted in International Human
Smuggling Ring - Young Honduran Women Forced to Work in Hudson County Bars Michael Drewniak,
Public Affairs archives.uruguay.usembassy.gov/usaweb/paginas/471-00EN.shtml [accessed 30 August 2011] The women, mostly
from rural, poor villages in 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 – If You Turn Up Dead, No One Will Wonder Why Diego Cevallos,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, ipsnews.net/print.asp?idnews=27817 [accessed 23 May 2011] These girls, boys
and teenagers are offered up as
"merchandise" in brothels, photographed nude for Internet websites,
or forced to perform in live sex shows. Most are poor, and all are utterly
denied their right to a safe and happy childhood. In The Economist At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 May 2011] The abuse has grown
so blatant that such willful disregard is no longer possible. Exactly how big
the problem is, no one is quite sure, only that over the past couple of
decades it has been getting worse and that western visitors are much to
blame. In Tela, for instance, as many as 40% of the
120,000 annual visitors to the town could be sex tourists. Child Prostitution: A Growing Scourge W. E. Gutman, The
www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_10/issue_07/travel_01.html [accessed 23 May 2011] A REGION OUT OF
CONTROL
- Promised jobs and scholarships, Honduran girls, some as young as 13, are
routinely being trafficked by crime syndicates and sold to brothels in
Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico.
Most of the street girls rescued by Casa Alianza
are victims of prostitution. HUGE PROBLEM, SCARCE
ASSETS
- Honduras Security Minister Oscar Alvarez, who oversees his country's law
enforcement apparatus, acknowledges that child prostitution is out of
control. He attributes his agency's unexceptional successes to
"acute" understaffing. Report of the Special Rapporteur of the
Commission on Human Rights on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography Ofelia Calcetas-Santos,
Special Rapporteur, UN General Assembly, Fifty-fifth session, 10 August 2000 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 May 2011] [45] In January
2000, a court in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, sentenced three American men to
jail terms of between four and nine years for promoting the prostitution of
minors and profiting from the prostitution of others. [46] In April 1999
the Honduran Criminal Investigative Unit and staff from the non-governmental
organization Casa Alianza had investigated a night
club operating in Underage teens
are abused in Honduran honky-tonks David Adams, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/239.html [accessed 23 May 2011] The arrests
highlight what child advocates say is a growing problem in the dirt-poor
countries of ECPAT International Newsletters, Issue No.
36, 1 September 2001 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 May 2011] According to a
recent report from UNICEF and the Project for Communication and Life
(COMVIDA), over 500 minors are prostituted in the city of Child Sex Trade
Rises in Serge F. Kovaleski,
The www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/097.html [accessed 23 May 2011] While some minors
are pushed into prostitution by families that are unable to support
themselves, most underage sex workers in Central America are street children,
many of whom, studies show, had fled sexual abuse at home. In Sex Tourism
Plagues Paul Jeffrey, UMW-Response Magazine for
United Methodist Women gbgm-umc.org/response/articles/sextourism.html [accessed 23 May 2011] Street children who
used to sniff relatively inexpensive glue are now turning to crack, readily
available in the region as Central American military officials, no longer
living high on the hog from Child rights advocate speaks at U.N.
meeting on contemporary slavery www.marrder.com/htw/jun99/central.htm [accessed 23 May 2011] [article on the
right] "If you are an
enterprising foreigner in In his
presentation, Harris described the worrisome boom of child sex tourism in
Costa Rica and Honduras, where more and more visitors are coming each year
exclusively to have sex with minors. Attacked by a complex network that
involves Internet sites, local hotels and bars, taxi drivers, and
"professional" pimps, numerous poor girls and boys -- as young as
10 years old -- are falling victims to those sex predators, as they find in
prostitution their only means of survival. All
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