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Child Prostitution

The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

In the first ten years of the 21st Century  -  2000 to 2009

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan, the largest of the former Soviet republics in territory, excluding Russia, possesses enormous fossil fuel reserves and plentiful supplies of other minerals and metals. It also has a large agricultural sector featuring livestock and grain. Kazakhstan's industrial sector rests on the extraction and processing of these natural resources.

The country has embarked upon an industrial policy designed to diversify the economy away from overdependence on the oil sector by developing its manufacturing potential. The policy changed the corporate tax code to

favor domestic industry as a means to reduce the influence of foreign investment and foreign personnel.  [The World Factbook, U.S.C.I.A. 2009]

CAUTION:  The following links and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in Kazakhstan.  Some of these links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated, misleading or even false.   No attempt has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content.

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Russian National Consultation on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

www.ecpat.net/eng/Russia.asp

At one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]

PROBLEM VARIES ACCORDING TO THE REGION - Internal trafficking within Russia and the CIS countries (Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) is widespread owing to rising demand for sex services, including child prostitution, in big cities, particularly in Moscow and St. Petersburg. As it does not cost much to transfer children within the country, criminals do not face major financial obstacles during the whole process.

 

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U.S. Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs

INCIDENCE AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Reports indicate a rise in the number of children engaged in commercial sexual exploitation, pornography and drug trafficking in urban areas. Children working as domestic servants are often invisible and, for this reason, also vulnerable to exploitation. Kazakhstan is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking for sexual exploitation and forced labor. Girls in their teens are one of the primary targets for trafficking from Kazakhstan to other countries. Internal trafficking from rural to urban areas also occurs.

Bur of Democracy, Human Rights & Labor - Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005

TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS – Traffickers targeted young women in their teens and 20s for sexual exploitation.

Adolescents raised in orphanages, regardless of gender, and residents of rural and economically disadvantaged areas were particularly vulnerable to being trafficked. The country's relative prosperity otherwise served as a factor against citizens being trafficked through seeking employment abroad. During the year an orphanage director in the southern part of the country was caught attempting to traffic teenage girls to the UAE. The highly publicized case remained ongoing at year's end.

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2003

[72] The Committee is concerned at:

(a) The growing involvement of children in the sex industry and the apparent indifference of society towards the issue of child prostitution, including reports of parents themselves reportedly forcing their children to earn money through prostitution;

(b) The lack of specialized centers to accommodate and provide qualified services, including psychotherapeutic and rehabilitation and reintegration programs, for child victims of sexual violence.

Report by Special Rapporteur [DOC]

[49] The sale of children and enticing children into prostitution are criminal offences.  In the first nine months of 2002, one man and four women were prosecuted under article 133 of the Criminal Code for trafficking in minors.  In the same period, 71 persons were prosecuted under article 132 for enticing minors into prostitution, vagrancy or begging. In one reported case, a woman ran a coordinated criminal organization procuring and enticing minors into prostitution.  On 27 April 2001 the Taraz city court sentenced her to four years’ imprisonment.  In all such cases the minor is not held criminally liable, and the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan has standard rules on judicial practice in cases involving offences by minors to ensure the safeguarding of their rights. Minors may be taken into custody as a preventive measure or detained where they have committed a serious offence.

National Consultation on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC)

www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/kazakhstan/index.asp

At one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]

A study commissioned in Kazakhstan by ECPAT International for a situational analysis on the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) has focused, among other things, on the legal protection afforded to families and children in the country and on the perception of the phenomenon by Kazakh society, while trying to identify existing gaps and possible remedies needed.

Russian National Consultation on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

www.ecpat.net/eng/Russia.asp

At one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]

PROBLEM VARIES ACCORDING TO THE REGION - Internal trafficking within Russia and the CIS countries (Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan) is widespread owing to rising demand for sex services, including child prostitution, in big cities, particularly in Moscow and St. Petersburg. As it does not cost much to transfer children within the country, criminals do not face major financial obstacles during the whole process.

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