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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - There is evidence of child prostitution in Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS Women and
children were trafficked into Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1999 [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 [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. Notes
From the Netherworld: Catch a Falling Star La Ceiba is a hub for child
prostitution. Tourists regularly come to Honduras to exploit minors. While
there is no organized child prostitution, networks exist that supply children
to pedophiles. 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.
- sccp GUATEMALA:
Where Sexual Exploitation of Minors Is Not a Crime 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. Marνa Eugenia
Villarreal, ECPAT director for Latin America, says Central America is a hub
for trafficking in minors, child pornography and sex tourism. 10 Charged in International Human Smuggling
Ring The women, mostly from rural, poor
villages in ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES If You Turn Up Dead, No One
Will Wonder Why 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 Honduras Gets Tough On Child Prostitution 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 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. UN
General Assembly - Promotion And
Protection Of The Rights Of Children [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 The arrests highlight what child
advocates say is a growing problem in the dirt-poor countries of Honduras:
Child Prostitution On The Rise 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 Central America 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
Central America 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
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