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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Children lured into drugs and prostitution UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, Baghdad,
February 12, 2007 www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=70094 [accessed 31 May 2011] GLUE SNIFFING - Sami Rubaie, 12, lives on the streets of "I cry every time a man has
sex with me and they usually hit me because I am crying. After I do it, my
boss gives me a good quantity of glue and around US $3 dollars for food. I
know what I'm doing is wrong but it's better than living with daily beatings
from my father for not bringing him enough money," Sami
said. Rania Abouzeid,
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1883696,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly [accessed 13 February 2011] That underworld is a place where
nefarious female pimps hold sway, where impoverished mothers sell their
teenage daughters into a sex market that believes females who reach the age
of 20 are too old to fetch a good price. The youngest victims, some just 11
and 12, are sold for as much as $30,000, others for as little as $2,000.
"The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it's like the trade in
cattle," Hinda says. "I've seen mothers
haggle with agents over the price of their daughters." (See pictures of
Iraq since the fall of Saddam.) The trafficking routes are both
local and international, most often to Syria, Jordan and the Gulf (primarily
the United Arab Emirates). The victims are trafficked illegally on forged
passports, or "legally" through forced marriages. A married female,
even one as young as 14, raises few suspicions if she's travelling
with her "husband." The girls are then divorced upon arrival and
put to work. (See Iraq's return to "normalcy".) ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61689.htm [accessed 13 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS - Detection
of trafficking was extremely difficult due to lack of information because of
the security situation, existing societal controls of women, and the
closed-tribal culture. There were reports of girls and women trafficked
within the country for sexual exploitation. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 9 October 1998 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/iraq1998.html [accessed 13 February 2011] [27] The Committee notes with
concern the situation of children living and/or working on the streets,
particularly as it relates to economic and sexual exploitation. In this
regard, the Committee encourages the State party to increase preventive
measures and its efforts to ensure the rehabilitation and reintegration of
these children. Rania Abouzeid,
www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1883696,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly [accessed 13 February 2011] That underworld is a place where
nefarious female pimps hold sway, where impoverished mothers sell their
teenage daughters into a sex market that believes females who reach the age
of 20 are too old to fetch a good price. The youngest victims, some just 11
and 12, are sold for as much as $30,000, others for as little as $2,000.
"The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it's like the trade in
cattle," Hinda says. "I've seen mothers
haggle with agents over the price of their daughters." (See pictures of
Iraq since the fall of Saddam.) The trafficking routes are both
local and international, most often to Syria, Jordan and the Gulf (primarily
the United Arab Emirates). The victims are trafficked illegally on forged
passports, or "legally" through forced marriages. A married female,
even one as young as 14, raises few suspicions if she's travelling
with her "husband." The girls are then divorced upon arrival and
put to work. (See Iraq's return to "normalcy".) Aid sought for nations with Iraqi refugees Shafika Mattar,
The Associated Press AP, 07/26/2007 www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_6465715 [accessed 31 May 2011] Amnesty said it visited Children lured into drugs and prostitution UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=70094 [accessed 31 May 2011] GLUE SNIFFING - Sami Rubaie, 12, lives on the streets of "I cry every time a man has
sex with me and they usually hit me because I am crying. After I do it, my
boss gives me a good quantity of glue and around US $3 dollars for food. I
know what I'm doing is wrong but it's better than living with daily beatings
from my father for not bringing him enough money," Sami
said. Western civilisation? The
Unspoken Fate of Iraqi Children Hussein Al-alak, Global
Research, January 13, 2007 www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=AL-20070113&articleId=4443 [accessed 31 May 2011] August 2005 saw a report published
by the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN), which brought to
light the growth of child prostitution, under the new liberated The report states that extreme
poverty has lead to an increase in gangs, who are going around and kidnapping
children and forcing them into the sex trade, where hard currencies can be
exchanged for the degradation of a young persons body. Focus on Boys Trapped in Commercial Sex
Trade UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, August 8,
2005 www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/167/35567.html [accessed 13 February 2011] A 16-year-old boy has started a desperate
new life since being forced into the sex trade in Unveiling Joshua E.S. Phillips, salon.com, Jun 24, 2005 www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/24/prostitutes [accessed 31 May 2011] The story of a Sunni girl from Fallujah selling herself in a Voices of Resistance: Women Speak Out – Interview Azza Basarudin
& Khanum Shaikh
Interview Amal Al-Khedairy
& Nermin Al-Mufti, Middle East Women’s Studies
Review, Vol. Xviii, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall 2003/Spring 2004, pp. 1-3, 15 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] One of the impacts of wars and
sanctions has been a rapid increase in prostitution in 5.1 Middle East - State of November 21, 2000 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] While Commercial sexual exploitation
of children - Middle East/ This summary is based on the situation analysis written by
Dr Najat M’jid for the
Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 31 May 2011] These countries also have in
common, however, a number of constraints that have hindered preparation of
national plans of action. In all the countries of the region, there is
cultural resistance to addressing the problem because the subject is largely
taboo. Often the issue is dealt with
more generally under headings such as ‘violence’ and ‘trauma’. This means that there has been no regional
consensus on defining CSEC in law; in some countries, for example, it is
looked upon as an indecent act, in others as rape, although in all 20
countries there is some section of the penal code that can be invoked against
sexual abuse and exploitation. All material used herein
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