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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Children lured into drugs and prostitution bbsnews.net/article.php/20070212144349863 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Sami Rubaie,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. Iraq's
Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1883696,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly
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 *** Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 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) - 1998 [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. Iraq's
Unspeakable Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1883696,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly
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 Amnesty said it visited Syria,
where its delegates interviewed many Iraqis who had been tortured and in some
cases raped. Most are traumatized, with little hope of receiving treatment,
Amnesty said. "Many refugees said
they received no food and that their savings had dried up." The statement said that some Iraqi refugee
families have even resorted to forcing their daughters into prostitution to
help the family survive. Child prostitution and trafficking of Iraqi children
is said to be growing, Amnesty said. Children lured into drugs and prostitution bbsnews.net/article.php/20070212144349863 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] 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 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 Iraq and how
children as young as thirteen have become victims of this sexual tyranny,
which the West has brought to these children’s doors. 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 A 16-year-old boy has started a
desperate new life since being forced into the sex trade in Unveiling Iraq's Teenage Prostitutes The story of a Sunni girl from Fallujah selling herself in a Damascus nightclub represents startling new fallout from the Iraq war, one that human rights organizations and experts are only beginning to address. An increasing number of young Iraqi women and girls who fled Iraq during the turmoil are turning to prostitution in Syria, although there are no reliable statistics on how many girls are involved. That might partly explain why so little reporting has been done on the topic. For journalists and human rights workers, securing contact with Iraqi sex workers in Syria is difficult and dangerous because the topic is taboo. It's a serious problem because there are young girls doing this -- 11, 12, 13 years old. Voices of Resistance: Women Speak Out - Interview www.amews.org/review/reviewWomter04/VoicesofResistance.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] One of the impacts of wars and
sanctions has been a rapid increase in prostitution in 5.1 Middle East - State of CSEC/ Attitudes toward CSEC [PDF] www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/Publication/Other/English/Html_page/4th_a4a/English/Mdeast.pdf At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] While Commercial
sexual exploitation of children - Middle East/North Africa region 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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