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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 - 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 and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] EASTERN EUROPE - All material used herein
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