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Child Prostitution

The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

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Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (Libya) The Libyan economy depends primarily upon revenues from the oil sector, which contribute about 95% of export earnings, about one-quarter of GDP, and 60% of public sector wages. Substantial revenues from the energy sector coupled with a small population give Libya one of the highest per capita GDPs in Africa, but little of this income flows down to the lower orders of society. [The World Factbook, U.S.C.I.A. 2009]

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

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 June 2003

www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/libyanarabjamahiriya2003.html

[accessed 18 February 2011]

[43] The Committee is concerned about reports of trafficking of children to the State party for the purposes of prostitution and slavery. The Committee is concerned that there is a lack of information and awareness of the trafficking and prostitution of children.

ECPAT:  CSEC Overview - Country Report

ECPAT International

www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/Country/CSECOverview/Libya.html

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There is no research or data concerning the state of commercial sexual exploitation of children in Libya. Public and government belief is that sexual exploitation of children does not occur in Libya and is therefore not a problem.

The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: An Overview [PDF]

Maj-Lis Voss, ECPAT-USA, 1999

www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Commercial%20Sexual%20Exploitation%20of%20Children%20%20%20An%20Overview.pdf

[accessed 14 June 2011]

THE SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM - In Africa, many countries are faced with a rising child prostitution problem and the linkage with tourism is evident. Algeria has been reported as a place of transit for traffickers, and Senegal, Kenya, Sudan and Libya are on the list of countries where child prostitution is increasing.

The Trafficking Of Children For Sexual Purposes [PDF]

LOOKING BACK THINKING FORWARD - The fourth report on the implementation of the Agenda for Action adopted at the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children held in Stockholm, Sweden, August 1996 -- ECPAT International, November 2000

www.no-trafficking.org/content/pdf/looking_back_thinking_forward.pdf

[accessed 14 June 2011]

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THE TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN FOR SEXUAL PURPOSES - There have also been reports on the trafficking of children for sexual purposes from Guinea, Mali, Benin and Senegal. The trafficking of children from Guinea and Mali into neighbouring countries for either sexual purposes or cheap labour has reportedly become an increasing problem. In June 1999, a group of 174 children from Benin were caught being trafficked to Libya for prostitution. In Senegal, girls from the Southern Cassamance region, where a guerrilla war is going on, go to work as domestics in neighbouring Gambia where they are very vulnerable to CSEC. There is also a huge incountry trafficking from rural to urban cities in the region. These children are trafficked to serve as domestics but end up trapped in the circle of prostitution. Some are trafficked mainly for prostitution in the urban areas.

Five Years After Stockholm [PDF]

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]

THE FIFTH REPORT ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AGENDA FOR ACTION ADOPTED AT THE WORLD CONGRESS AGAINST COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN HELD IN STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN, AUGUST 1996. - In some North African countries the Stockholm Agenda for Action has not led to significant changes in approaching commercial sexual exploitation of children. In Libya the Stockholm Agenda for Action has not improved the situation, as it seems that Libya has not implemented any projects or strategies against CSEC.

Commercial sexual exploitation of children - Middle East/North Africa region

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 14 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.

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