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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of
particular interest to you. You might
be interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and
how some succeed in leaving. Perhaps
your paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their
leaving. Other factors of interest
might be poverty, rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction,
hunger, neglect, etc. On the other
hand, you might choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults
who control this activity. There is a
lot to the subject of Child Prostitution.
Scan other countries as well as this one. Draw comparisons between activity in
adjacent countries and/or regions.
Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Regional
Overview – Sexual Exploitation of Children Middle East and North Africa [PDF] Zina Khoury and Sirsa Qursha, ECPAT International, 2020 [accessed 1
September 2020] This Regional
Overview on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA), consolidates the relevant
existing data to map the context, risk factors, region-specific issues,
responses and gaps in the fight against the issue. In addition to providing
external audiences with a summary and analysis of the SEC, this report will
also serve as an advocacy tool that highlights good practices by governments
and other actors, and identifies opportunities for improvements. Keywords:
child marriage, war and conflict, LQBTQI, SOGIE, gender norms, taboo. Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/kuwait/ [accessed 1
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - There are no laws specific to child pornography,
because all pornography is illegal. There is no statutory rape law or minimum
age for consensual sexual relations; premarital sexual relations are illegal. In April the Child
Protection Office of the Ministry of Health reported 60 cases of sexual
assault on children, of approximately 600 child abuse cases that occurred in
2017. Most abuses occurred within the family. The agency reported an increase
in the rate of reported cases of child abuse following the establishment of
the office, which has made significant efforts in monitoring and following
cases of child abuse since it was established in 2014. In January the Legal
and Legislative Affairs Committee of the National Assembly approved several
amendments to the Children’s Rights Law, including capital punishment for
those found guilty of sexually abusing a child. A new policy aimed
at protecting children from dangers posed by social media platforms and
exploitation by parents and other adults had been put in place by the Child
Protection Office in the Juvenile Protection Department. The policy holds
families of children 13 years old or younger responsible for the use of
social media applications that might be unsuitable for young children or can
expose them to sexual predators. 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/kuwait1998.html [accessed 1 March
2011] [31] The Committee
is concerned at the absence of data, information and comprehensive research
on the issue of sexual abuse and exploitation of children. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights UN COMMITTEE ON
ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND CULTURAL RIGHTS CESCR, Thirty-second session, 26
April-14 May 2004 – Distributed 7 June 2004 www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/%28Symbol%29/E.C.12.1.Add.98.En [accessed 29 August
2011] [41] The Committee
recommends that the State party take effective measures to combat trafficking
in persons, especially in women and children, by ensuring, inter alia,
that those responsible for trafficking are prosecuted, and to ratify the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children, of 2001. The Committee recommends that the State party
establish support services for victims of trafficking and take steps to
sensitize law enforcement officials and the general public to the gravity of
this issue. Five Years After 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 – A Step Forward -
Report of the third year following The World Congress against the Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children held in ECPAT International,
September 1999 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 June
2011] No National Plan is
being developed in Slavery
of Children and women in Morteza Aminmansour,
Persian Journal, Jun 20, 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14
September 2011] Exact number of
victims is impossible to obtain, but according to an official source in UAE,
there has been increase in the number of teen-age girls in prostitution
(forced to work from 5.1 Middle East -
State of ECPAT International,
Looking Back, Thinking Forward,
1999 - 2000 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 June
2011] In the wealthy oil
producing states, (e.g. Commercial
sexual exploitation of children - Middle East/ based on the
situation analysis written by Dr Najat M’jid for the
Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Rabat, Morocco,
24-26 October 2001 -- Source document (in French): Rapport sur la situation
de l’exploitation sexuelle
des enfants dans la région MENA, 10 septembre 2001 www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 10 June
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. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights Reports
» 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41725.htm [accessed 2 April
2020] CHILDREN - There are a few unofficial homes for abused children
nominally run by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor. There are credible reports that some
caretakers abuse some of these children while they are living in these homes,
or that they are used for prostitution.
The conditions in these homes are reportedly very poor. All
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