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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In the
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** The Protection Project - Country Report [DOC] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - In Laos, the only available employment for many children and young women is a factory job with poor working conditions and a low salary. The bleak employment situation motivates children to take jobs in pubs, selling alcohol; they then gradually drift into prostitution. Other children are trafficked into prostitution through false promises of jobs as domestic servants. ***
ARCHIVES *** Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Trafficking in girls for prostitution and forced labor was a
problem. Other forms of child labor generally were confined to family farms
and enterprises. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 1997 [27] The Committee is concerned by
the increasing phenomenon of child prostitution and trafficking, which
affects boys as well as girls. It is worried about the insufficiency of
measures to prevent and combat this phenomenon, and the lack of
rehabilitation measures. 47
Laotian women rescued from Thai prostitution dens [DOC] Thai police on Wednesday raided
two karaoke bars in a province near Bangkok and rescued 47 women from
neighboring Laos who were forced to work as prostitutes, police said. The women rescued from the bars in
Chachoengsao province, 30 kilometers (19 miles) east of the capital, included
eight girls under age 18, said police Col. Kraibun Songsuat. He said the
bars' operators had kept the doors to the bars locked to keep the women from
escaping. 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At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [B]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 – LAOS
– the Department of Social Welfare has been carrying out research on the
sexual exploitation of children with support from UNICEF and has carried out
a campaign on the rights of the child. ECPAT: Acknowledgment & Prevention www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/Country/Prevention/Laos.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
In 1999, the Ministry of Labor and
Social Welfare carried out research on sexually exploited and sexually abused
children in urban areas of 4 provinces.
This research was considered an important step as the problem of CSEC
in Trafficking of Women and Children in Laos www.cwa.tnet.co.th/Publications/Newsletters/vol13_2-3/v13_2-3_laos.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
THE
SITUATION IN The Protection Project - Country Report [DOC] FACTORS
THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - In Fight Child
Prostitution By Curbing Demand – Groups MORE
LOCAL THAN FOREIGN CLIENTELE - In neighboring Transnational and Cross-Sectoral
Cooperation www.unifemsingapore.org.sg/stop_childsex/govt_transnational.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] EXAMPLE 7 - A Memorandum of Understanding
between the governments of Examples Of Measures Taken By The Corporate
Sector To Help Stop Child Prostitution www.unifemsingapore.org.sg/stop_childsex/measures_by_businesses.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Starting in 2002, training
sessions were organized for Accor hotel staff in Mission To Laos On The Issue Of Trafficking Of Children -
1998 www.hri.ca/fortherecord1999/documentation/commission/e-cn4-1999-71-add1.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [37] Child involvement in
commercial sex is not very apparent in Laos. However the Special Rapporteur
received reports that there are some establishments that may have clandestine
operations in this respect. There are also some reports that children as
young as 12 to 14 years of age have been used in the production of
pornographic films subsequently brought out of the country. The Special
Rapporteur remains gravely concerned that Thematic Reports www.hri.ca/fortherecord1999/vol3/laostr.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] SR ON THE
SALE OF CHILDREN, CHILD PROSTITUTION, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY - The report notes that the
situation of children who are at risk or are victims of commercial sexual
exploitation or trafficking is, for most purposes, usually considered under
the more general category of "Children in especially difficult
circumstances". Children identified as being in such circumstances are
those: with narcotic addictions; who have dropped out of school; with
"bad behavior"; who have committed acts of theft; beggars; working
as waitresses in nightclubs; in prostitution; and others with
"difficulties". Millions
Suffer in Sex Slavery Statistical estimates indicate
300,000 women have been sold into the sex trade in Western Europe in the last
10 years, and since 1990, 80,000 women and children from Myanmar (formerly
Burma), Cambodia, Laos and China
have been sold into Thailand's sex industry. New
Weapons Against Child Trafficking In Asia In recent years, large numbers of
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