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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Underage prostitution arrests Thomas Escritt,
The [accessed 21 April 2012] Police in Szabolcs-Szatmár county have arrested three men who
abducted two girls and forced them into prostitution. The girls - aged 14 and 15 - were forced
into a car in the eastern town of Nyíregyháza on
June 20 and held captive in a flat. A
police spokesman said that proceedings were underway against one 22-year old
and two 45-year old men for suspected violation of personal freedom. Experts agree that
there is no reliable data on the number of minors who are subjected to
similar ordeals each year. According
to Anna Betlen, a former Interior Ministry employee
who is now an independent expert on the issues surrounding human trafficking,
it would require more people, money and time to assess the scale of the
problem than the government is currently prepared to spare ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/hungary.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children work as beggars in urban areas, and also as
prostitutes, according to Budapest Police, although the scope of the problem
is unknown. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61652.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] CHILDREN
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Child prostitution was not a common practice, although isolated incidents
occurred. Severe penalties existed under the law for those persons convicted
of sexually abusing children by engaging in such acts. Although child
prostitutes are not criminally prosecuted, they can be remanded to juvenile
centers for rehabilitation and to complete school. Trafficking in children for the purpose of
sexual exploitation was a problem. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 5
June 1998 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/hungary1998.html [accessed 8 February 2011] [22] The Committee
is concerned about the insufficiency of legal and other measures to address
the issue of sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution
and trafficking of children. Underage prostitution arrests Thomas Escritt,
The [accessed 21 April 2012] Police in Szabolcs-Szatmár county have arrested three men who
abducted two girls and forced them into prostitution. The girls - aged 14 and 15 - were forced
into a car in the eastern town of Nyíregyháza on
June 20 and held captive in a flat. A
police spokesman said that proceedings were underway against one 22-year old
and two 45-year old men for suspected violation of personal freedom. Experts agree that
there is no reliable data on the number of minors who are subjected to
similar ordeals each year. According
to Anna Betlen, a former Interior Ministry employee
who is now an independent expert on the issues surrounding human trafficking,
it would require more people, money and time to assess the scale of the
problem than the government is currently prepared to spare 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 – Statistical Dimension of Sexual
Exploitation of Children Indian NGOs Children's Forum At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 May 2011] There are an
estimated 500 children engaged in prostitution. (CATW Fact Book, citing
"Hungary considers legalised prostitution", 1 December 1997, citing
UNICEF) There are an
estimated 500 child prostitutes in Budapest. (Guardian, August 1996,
reprinted in ECPAT Bulletin) The proportion of
girls under 18 in prostitution, according to the police, is 5-10% in
Budapest. (ECPAT International, Helena Karlen and Christene Hagnen, Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children in Some Eastern European Countries, March 1996) ECPAT: Trafficking in Children for Sexual Purposes ECPAT International Newsletter, Issue No :
33 1/December/2000 At one time this article had been archived
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