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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Study Finds Many Girls Selling Bodies to
Pay for School UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, MONROVIA, 6 September 2005 www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=56186 [accessed 14 June 2011] As many
as four out of five schoolgirls in war-scarred "In
the capital, Monrovia, an estimated 60 to 80 percent of teenage girls want an
education so much, they sell the only commodity they have -- their bodies --
to fund it," Save the Children said in its report published on
Monday. The charity said its
researchers uncovered the problem unexpectedly in the course of carrying out
their part of a wider global education survey. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61577.htm [accessed 18 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– NGO estimates of the number of persons trafficked to the country during the
year ranged between 20 and several hundred. Victims were trafficked within
the country and from neighboring countries for prostitution and labor. Young
children were at a particularly high risk for trafficking, especially orphans
or children from extremely poor families. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 4
June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/liberia2004.html [accessed 14 June 2011] [62] The Committee
shares the State party’s concern about the prevalence of child prostitution,
particularly in urban areas, and is further concerned at the lack of data
thereon. 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 – When ‘Peacekeeping’ Equals Rape Suki, The American
Chronicle, November 13, 2006 www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/16594 [accessed 14 June 2011] The litany of this
sex horror goes on. Refugees International reports that in Aid staff abusing Liberian children,
charity says David Fickling,
The Guardian, 8 May 2006 www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/may/08/westafrica.davidfickling [accessed 14 June 2011] The Save the
Children report found that girls as young as eight were selling sex for items
such as food, beer, clothing, perfume or mobile phones. Others were
reported as having sex with adults in return for good school grades, video
screenings or rides in cars. Study Finds Many Girls Selling Bodies to
Pay for School UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=56186 [accessed 14 June 2011] As many
as four out of five schoolgirls in war-scarred "In
the capital, Monrovia, an estimated 60 to 80 percent of teenage girls want an
education so much, they sell the only commodity they have -- their bodies --
to fund it," Save the Children said in its report published on
Monday. The charity said its
researchers uncovered the problem unexpectedly in the course of carrying out
their part of a wider global education survey. Reports That Child Refugees Sexually
Exploited Shock Annan UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=30517 [accessed 14 June 2011] GUINEA-LIBERIA-SIERRA_LEONE Refugee children in
The Experience of Refugee Children in UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR and
Save the Children-UK, February 2002 www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/sexual_violence_and_exploitation.pdf [accessed 14 June 2011] This
assessment was initiated by UNHCR and Save the Children-UK (SC-UK) due to
growing concerns, based on their field experience, about the nature and
extent of sexual violence and exploitation of refugee children and other
children of concern to UNHCR in the countries of the Mano River Sub Region in
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