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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 ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on 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
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