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In the early years of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/childprostitution/Ireland.htm

Republic of Ireland Ireland is a small, modern, trade-dependent economy. GDP growth averaged 6% in 1995-2007, but economic activity dropped sharply in 2008 and Ireland entered into a recession for the first time in more than a decade with the onset of the world financial crisis and subsequent severe slowdown in the property and construction markets. Agriculture, once the most important sector, is now dwarfed by industry and services. Per capita GDP also surged during Ireland's high-growth years, and in 2007 surpassed that of the United States. The Irish Government has implemented a series of national economic programs designed to curb price and wage inflation, invest in infrastructure, increase labor force skills, and promote foreign investment. [The World Factbook, U.S.C.I.A. 2009]

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The Protection Project - Ireland [DOC]

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University

www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/ireland.doc

[accessed 2009]

FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - As many as 40 children a year are being trafficked to Ireland for either economic or sexual exploitation, according to a recent International Organization for Migration report. Children between 3 and 17 years of age are being trafficked for a variety of reasons—for the sex industry, as child brides, or as workers in the underground economy. Child-trafficking investigations mainly deal with children from Romania, the former Yugoslavia, and the coastal countries of West Africa. Nigerian children are reportedly brought into Ireland to work in the sex industry.

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Runaways - Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless

Rebeccas Community -- This is for anyone aged up to 13 years old who is thinking about running away

www.homeless.org.au/runaways.htm

[accessed 1 June 2011]

Here are the best phone numbers to call …They are Confidential - which means they won't tell anyone about your call unless you want them to talk to somebody for you, or you are in danger. They are open 24 Hours - it doesn't matter what time you call. In Ireland, call 1-800-666-666

Human Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 8, 2006

www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61654.htm

[accessed 14 February 2011]

CHILDREN - The law prohibits the trafficking and sexual exploitation of children; however, there were reports that such practices occurred.

TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS – The country might be a destination country on a limited scale for trafficking in women and children. The country may also be a transit point for persons trafficked to or from Northern Ireland. There is anecdotal information that some women were trafficked within the country. Socially disadvantaged non-national women and children were most likely to be trafficking victims.

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) [DOC]

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 29 September 2006

www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/898586b1dc7b4043c1256a450044f331/8d69692f4788b109c125725d002ff0c6/$FILE/G0645074.doc

[accessed 14 February 2011]

[74] While noting the Sex Offenders Act of 2001 that provides with a comprehensive protection of the public against sex offenders, the Committee is concerned about the lack of information concerning children victims of prostitution and on child pornography.

[76] While noting the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act of 1998 and the 2006Trafficking in Persons and Sexual Offences Bill, the Committee regrets the lack of specific information on the situation of children victims of abduction and sale or traffic for any purpose or in any form.

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 23 January 1998

www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/ireland1998.html

[accessed 28 February 2011]

[5] The Committee commends the numerous efforts and concrete measures taken by the State party to protect children from sexual exploitation, including sex tourism. The Committee also especially welcomes the enactment of the Sexual Offences (Jurisdiction) Act of 1996 and the drafting of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Bill of 1997, which, inter alia, awards jurisdiction to domestic courts to prosecute citizens and/or residents who engaged in child sex tourism abroad as well as those who organize and publicize child sex tourism in the State party.

Man dies over child sex case - Child prostitution suspect may have committed suicide

John Mooney, The Sunday Times (UK), July 20, 2008

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article4365058.ece

[accessed 1 June 2011]

Cases of child prostitution are rare in Ireland, according to gardai, though some children’s charities, including the Irish Society for the Protection of Children (ISPCC), maintains that increasing numbers of young girls are involved.

“We know that young girls, particularly teenagers from immigrant communities who arrive in Ireland unaccompanied, are getting involved in prostitution,” said Caroline O’Sullivan, the ISPCC’s director of services. “This case yet again proves that child prostitution is happening and we urgently need new laws to protect youngsters who are vulnerable.

Trafficking task force targets child sex trade

Independent.ie, October 07 2007

www.independent.ie/national-news/trafficking-task-force--targets-child-sex-trade-1116979.html

[accessed 14 February 2011]

Children who are forced to work as prostitutes or in the illegal labour market will be the top priority of the joint Irish/British crackdown on human trafficking launched last week - htcp

State in child-trafficking risk – ISPCC

Aoife Carr, 17 November 2006 -- Source: www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2006/1117/breaking43.htm

www.childtrafficking.org/cgi-bin/ct/main.sql?ID=2827&file=view_document.sql&TITLE=-1&AUTHOR=-1&THESAURO=-1&ORGANIZATION=-1&TYPE_DOC=-1&TOPIC=-1&GEOG=-1&YEAR=-1&LISTA=No&COUNTRY=-1&FULL_DETAIL=Yes

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Ireland could become a gateway for the trafficking of children because it does not follow best international practice to safeguard children at risk, the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC) claimed today.  The ISPCC expressed concern that the Government is not doing enough to protect separated children entering the country. Separated children are minors, generally between 15 and 17, who enter the country unaccompanied by a parent or guardian. According to the ISPCC, fewer than 5 per cent of these children are identified at a port of entry, and more than 316 separated children have gone missing in Ireland in the past four years.

The Protection Project - Ireland [DOC]

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University

www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/ireland.doc

[accessed 2009]

FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - As many as 40 children a year are being trafficked to Ireland for either economic or sexual exploitation, according to a recent International Organization for Migration report. Children between 3 and 17 years of age are being trafficked for a variety of reasons—for the sex industry, as child brides, or as workers in the underground economy. Child-trafficking investigations mainly deal with children from Romania, the former Yugoslavia, and the coastal countries of West Africa. Nigerian children are reportedly brought into Ireland to work in the sex industry.

Five Years After Stockholm [PDF]

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 – IRELAND – In November 2000, the Prime Minister launched the National Children’s Strategy, a comprehensive plan involving government and non-governmental partners. One of the plan’s objectives is to protect children from abuse and exploitation, and it calls for the implementation of the Stockholm Agenda for Action, including the development of a national plan of action against CSEC. It also calls for the enactment of a Children’s Bill and a Sex Offenders Bill, and the development of treatment and counseling services for child victims of abuse.

Report by Special Rapporteur - 2003 [DOC]

U.N. Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human Rights, Fifty ninth session, 6 January 2003

www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc

[accessed 14 February 2011]

[48] Sale and trafficking of children for purposes connected to slavery are criminalized under the Slave Trade Act of 1824 and under the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act of 1998 it is an offence to traffic in or abduct children for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Prostitution itself is not an offence, but soliciting in the streets, or living off the earnings of another’s prostitution constitutes an offence.  Criminal liability is incurred regardless of the age of the prostitute or client. The Children’s Act of 2001 provides a framework of safeguards stipulating how children must be treated in police custody and the operation and special proceedings of the Children’s Court.

Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation

Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn, Vanessa Chirgwin, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, 1999

www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/ireland.htm

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Most male prostitutes come from Dublin, a few from Italy, and others from Britain and Eastern Europe. A third are or have been drug addicts, while 60 per cent were at some stage homeless. More than 40% had been forced to have sex or engage in particular sex acts. Almost half were paid more for unsafe sex.

Homelessness—Prostitution Legalisation?

A-Infos News Service, Workers Solidarity, No 56, March 1999

www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/61/290.html

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Juvenile prostitution is directly linked to homelessness. A new report by Focus Ireland shows that homelessness has doubled in the last four years. Focus, which has centers in Dublin and Limerick, dealt with 6,000 homeless people last year. 788 of them were under 18. The government says there are only 2,500 homeless people in the entire country. The Eastern Health Board (EHB) published a Working Group Report in September of 1997. Fifty-seven people from the ages of 11 to 18 were reported to have been homeless and involved in prostitution.

Minister O'Donnell Addresses Irish Government Sponsored Conference on Child Prostitution and Pornography in Thailand

Department of Foreign Affairs DFA, Press Release, 17/09/1999

www.foreignaffairs.irlgov.ie/home/index.aspx?id=26734

[accessed 1 June 2011]

Legislation passed in Ireland since the Stockholm Congress provides for the prosecution in Ireland of those involve in child sex tourism abroad.

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