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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** 6,000 children smuggled to the west each year for sex www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jul/12/internationalcrime Researchers have identified north-eastern Italy as a key sorting centre for girls from eastern Europe who are either sold by their parents, kidnapped by organised crime gangs, or lured abroad by the mirage of a better life. There is a particularly high concentration of juvenile sex slaves in the area between Padua and Venice, with 20% of prostitutes under the age of 18, compared to 5% in other Italian cities, the charity said. Last year 250 girls managed to escape from their exploiters and seek assistance from the Italian state. ***
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what time you call. In www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-ITALY.pdf Poverty and socio-economic
disadvantage are strong causal factors associated with the prostitution of
children in Italy. But Italian children also take part in occasional
exchanges of sexual services for money in response to marketing and social
pressures to consume, and to reduce whatever feelings of material deprivation
these create. According to the police, no criminal organisations
are currently involved in the exploitation of Italian children for the
purposes of exploitation in paedophile or
prostitution rings; as such, the so-called ‘voluntary’ involvement of young
people in sexual exploitation is a new challenge yet to be properly exposed
and eliminated. Italy is a country of destination
and of transit for girls trafficked for sexual purposes mainly from Nigeria
and eastern European countries such as Albania, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria
and Ukraine. Very often they are deceived with promises of well-paid jobs and
forced into prostitution by criminal groups on arrival. Prostitution occurs
mainly on the streets, in the case of Nigerian girls, and in flats, in the case
of girls from other countries (rarely in night clubs). To prevent detection
by the authorities, most exploiters keep moving the girls to other parts of
town or to different towns. They also ‘sell’ or ‘rent’ them to other
exploiters. The prostitution of boys of
foreign origin also occurs in the country. It occurs mainly outdoors,
especially in railway stations, and usually involves 13 to 17 year-old boys,
mostly Romanians from the Roma community, but also a minority from North
Africa, the Balkans and Albania. Although apparently widespread, this
particular manifestation of the commercial sexual exploitation of children
(CSEC) is very much overlooked by the authorities and child rights organisations. Lack of recognition of the problem may be
explained by the fact that most of the boys arrive in Italy unaccompanied and
seeking employment, rather than as trafficked children or children who have
fallen victim to sex rings or pimps. Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - NGOs estimated that 8 to 10
percent of prostitutes were minors. An independent research center estimated
that there were between 1,800 and 3,000 minors who worked as street prostitutes, of whom 1,500 to
2,300 were trafficked into the country and forced into prostitution. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2003 [37] The Committee welcomes the
establishment of a National Commission for the coordination of action
regarding maltreatment, abuse and sexual exploitation of children and the
adoption of a global strategy. [49] The Committee welcomes the
adoption of Act 269/98 against the exploitation of prostitution, pornography,
and sexual tourism targeting children and the establishment of an
Inter-Ministerial Committee for the Coordination of the Government Action
Against Child Abuse and Trafficking in Minors and Women for Sexual Purposes.
Nevertheless, the Committee remains concerned at the numbers of children who
are trafficked for sexual purposes in the State party. Italian police break up child prostitution network www.radionetherlands.nl/news/international/5600486/Italian-police-break-up-child-prostitution-network At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Italian police have made scores of
arrests and rolled up a child prostitution network. Fifty-one people were
arrested in Italy and 15 in other countries, mainly the Netherlands. They are
accused of human trafficking, exploitation and kidnapping. In Nigeria,
Nigerian women took very young children from orphanages to work in the drug
trade and as prostitutes. The children are also believed to have been taken
from asylum centres in the Netherlands. The police
operation began in October 2007 when, at the request of the Dutch government,
22 Nigerians were detained in Nigeria, various European countries and the US. ECPAT: Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for
Action [DOC] www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/publication/other/english/Doc_page/ecpat_5th_a4a_2001_full.doc At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – ITALY
– Italy’s national plan has facilitated a discussion among ministries about
how to tackle CSEC. The Ministry of Social Solidarity has formed an
inter-ministerial commission to work on the issue. The commission includes
UNICEF, and NGOs such as ECPAT Italy.
The trafficking of young Albanian girls for sexual slavery is an on-going
problem in Italy's Sex Trade
Pulls Teens Pushed by Poverty Sex Trafficking of Girls Is a
'Family Issue' - Often it is a girl's parent who seeks out a trafficker and
requests that she be sent to COMMERCIAL
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN TOURISM - it is the introduction in the prostitution market of
underage girls coming from FEBRUARY
2000 - US Dept of
State report says that prior to 1999, of the 2,500 child street prostitutes
in World News Snapshots members.cox.net/survivorconnections/world1briefs.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] 6,000 children smuggled to the west each year for sex www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jul/12/internationalcrime Researchers have identified
north-eastern Italy as a key sorting centre for girls from eastern Europe who
are either sold by their parents, kidnapped by organised
crime gangs, or lured abroad by the mirage of a better life. There is a particularly high
concentration of juvenile sex slaves in the area between Padua and Venice,
with 20% of prostitutes under the age of 18, compared to 5% in other Italian
cities, the charity said. Last year
250 girls managed to escape from their exploiters and seek assistance from
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