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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Warnings Or Dangers: Child prostitution Travel Guides - grets's
Madagascar Page, Jul 5, 2004 members.virtualtourist.com/m/7a8e1/e9c/8/ [accessed 16 June 2011] Child prostitution is a major
problem in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/madagascar.htm [accessed 19 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Commercial sexual exploitation is a problem in most of Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61578.htm [accessed 19 February 2011] CHILDREN - Child prostitution was a
problem. According to a continuing study conducted by the International Labor
Organization's International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor
(IPEC), there were approximately 700 to 800 child prostitutes in the city of Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 October 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/madagascar2003.html [accessed 19 February 2011] [65] While welcoming the adoption
of Act 98-024 of 25 January 1999 amending the Penal Code, the Committee is
concerned about the increasing number of child victims of commercial sexual
exploitation, including prostitution and pornography. Concern is also expressed at the lack of
programs for the physical and psychological recovery and social
rehabilitation of child victims of such abuse and exploitation. 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UPDATES – Reports to Treaty Bodies Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), 2003 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 June 2011] The Committee further expressed
concern about the lack of free primary education; the increasing number of
street children and the lack of a strategy to address their needs; the
increasing number of child victims of commercial sexual exploitation,
including prostitution and pornography; the lack of judges and criminal
courts for minors; the sentencing of children aged 16 and 17 as adults; the
limited possibilities for the rehabilitation and reintegration of juveniles
following judicial proceedings. UNICEF Press www.unicef.org/media/media_18223.html [accessed 19 February 2011] At the official launch of a
national campaign to end child sexual exploitation in Madagascar, UNICEF and ILO
presented the resumes of three studies that highlighted the sexual
exploitation of children in Madagascar. According to the UNICEF-sponsored
study, between 30 per cent to 50 per cent of all sex workers in two of the
country's main cities, Nosy Be and Tamatave, were
children under the age of 18. At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 June 2011] The studies found that a
significant number of Malagasy children, mostly girls between the ages of 13
and 18, engaged in prostitution. The report indicated that much of that
activity was without the involvement of any third party, although there were
some cases of encouragement or facilitation by family or other third parties,
including taxi and rickshaw drivers, friends, or traditional (often older,
female) pimps/procurers. The studies cited social, economic, and cultural
factors as influencing the incidence of child prostitution. Malagasy cultural
practices, for example, permit minors to choose sexual partners, even among strangers,
and to accept gifts or money from them without any social stigma. The report
also noted that prostitution has traditionally been seen here as a normal
activity and legitimate source of income. Comments made by the Committee of Experts on the Application
of Conventions and Recommendations CEACR (from 1990) CEACR 2005/76th Session At one time this article had been archived and may possibly
still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 June 2011] The Committee notes that, in 2002,
ILO/IPEC carried out a "rapid assessment" concerning the scope of
the phenomenon of the sexual exploitation of children in Warnings Or Dangers: Child prostitution Travel Guides - grets's
Madagascar Page, Jul 5, 2004 members.virtualtourist.com/m/7a8e1/e9c/8/ [accessed 16 June 2011] Child prostitution is a major
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