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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Report by Special Rapporteur [DOC] UN 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 13 June 2011] [52]
Children involved in prostitution are taken into custody by the internal
security forces and referred through the Department of Public Prosecutions
directly to a juvenile misdemeanors court. Children are normally
given custodial sentences of between three and six months. Females
serve their sentences in Ba’abda women’s prison but
have little access to rehabilitation facilities apart from a few activities
carried out in association with external organizations. Male
children are imprisoned in a juvenile facility at Rumiyyah
prison where they are separated from the men. Rehabilitation
programs including vocational training are run in the juvenile facility. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/lebanon.htm [accessed 17 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - It is common for children to earn family income by working
in the fields or begging in the streets.
Non-Lebanese children constitute 10 to 20 percent of children working
in the formal sector, but make up a larger share of children working on the
street. There have been reported cases
of child prostitution and other situations that amount to forced labor. Although Human Rights Reports » 2004
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41726.htm [accessed 1 March 2011] CHILDREN - NGO's throughout the
country reported that child prostitution was a problem. The authorities
discovered and broke up three child prostitution rings. In two of the cases,
the perpetrators were charged with facilitation, in the third, with child
prostitution. At year's end, the cases were pending prosecution. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1 February 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/lebanon2002.html [accessed 1 March 2011] [58] The
Committee is concerned at the insufficient data on and awareness of the
phenomenon of sexual exploitation of children in Child prostitution still taboo, despite laws UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=26170 [accessed 13 June 2011] "My parents needed money so
they sent me to work as a housemaid at the age of 12. Do you know how much I
had to put up with in my situation?" Nadine asked rhetorically. “All men
want is one thing – your body! So I decided to ask for money in exchange for
what I was offering.” 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 – LEBANON – Various NGOs have contributed not only by raising
awareness, but also by implementing policies and projects aiming at assisting
abused children, including victims of sexual abuse. The NGO Dar el Amal has discussed the issue of sexual exploitation of
children with Save the Children Sweden and Save the Children U.K. They have
jointly taken the decision to set up a committee to develop policies to
assist abused children. The committee will be composed of the Ministry of
Labor and Social Affairs, the ILO, UNICEF and Dar el Amal.
Additionally Dar el Amal is coordinating various
activities with the private and public sectors with the aim of protecting
children. Report by Special Rapporteur [DOC] UN 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 13 June 2011] [52]
Children involved in prostitution are taken into custody by the internal
security forces and referred through the Department of Public Prosecutions
directly to a juvenile misdemeanors court. Children are normally
given custodial sentences of between three and six months. Females
serve their sentences in Ba’abda women’s prison but
have little access to rehabilitation facilities apart from a few activities
carried out in association with external organizations. Male
children are imprisoned in a juvenile facility at Rumiyyah
prison where they are separated from the men. Rehabilitation
programs including vocational training are run in the juvenile facility. 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 13 June 2011] While 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 13 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. All material used herein
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