Human Trafficking in [Malawi] [other countries]Street Children in [Malawi] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Malawi |
Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In the
first ten years of the 21st Century -
2000 to 2009
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Twenty-seven year-old Lima Wochi from Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, looks dejected.
She ventured into prostitution at the tender age of 12. She says she is tired
of sex work and is looking for a way out of it. Wochi says she was forced into
prostitution by abject poverty. “I found sex work lucrative and I thought it
was a very easy way of making money.” She left her rural village in southern
Malawi and moved to the country’s capital, Lilongwe. She immediately started
roaming around the city’s drinking places and hotels plying the sex trade. “I don’t want to be a prostitute
anymore. I am fed up with everything that comes with it, but my main problem
is that I never went to school and I can never get good employment,” she
worries. ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF - The Big Picture U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - The government took steps to
respond to a March 2004 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) study that showed a
number of girls entered into sexual relationships with teachers for money,
became pregnant, and subsequently left school. The study also found that many
girls left school because of violent behavior by some teachers. In response,
the government expanded legal protection of students subjected to
exploitation and inappropriate relationships at school. On November 11, the The trafficking of children for
sexual purposes was a problem, and child prostitution also occurred. The
belief that children were unlikely to be HIV positive and the widespread
belief that sexual intercourse with virgins can cleanse an individual of
sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS, contributed to the sexual
exploitation of minors Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2002 [61] The Committee is concerned at
the lack of knowledge about sexual exploitation and abuse of children and at
the increasing number of child victims of commercial sexual exploitation,
including prostitution and pornography.
Concern is also expressed at the insufficient programs for the
physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of child victims
of such abuse and exploitation. thewip.net/contributors/2008/10/saving_sex_workers_in_malawi.html Twenty-seven year-old Lima Wochi from Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe, looks dejected.
She ventured into prostitution at the tender age of 12. She says she is tired
of sex work and is looking for a way out of it. Wochi says she was forced into
prostitution by abject poverty. “I found sex work lucrative and I thought it
was a very easy way of making money.” She left her rural village in southern
Malawi and moved to the country’s capital, Lilongwe. She immediately started
roaming around the city’s drinking places and hotels plying the sex trade. “I don’t want to be a prostitute
anymore. I am fed up with everything that comes with it, but my main problem
is that I never went to school and I can never get good employment,” she
worries. Child Prostitution worsens in Cities Three months ago, 15-year-old M.
C. trekked to Children's Rights www.chrr.org.mw/human_rights/child_rights.php At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] Early in 2004, the outgoing UNICEF
resident representative decried child prostitution that was shown to be on
the increase in Southern Africa: Major destination for traffickers in women and children "Sexual exploitation - in
particular, prostitution - is the most widely documented form of exploitation
for women and children trafficked within and from [2.1] SEX
TOURISM AND SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - In Malawi, the incidence of children being
abused by tourists is very prominent. Mumba (1998) notes that there is
illegal exploitation of children by expatriates. Foreigners who pose as
philanthropists also sexually exploit boys in tourist areas. The abusers have
been reported to be ordinary men and substance abusers, with some of the men
being married. [3.1]
MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM - In Malawi, lack of research and statistical information about the nature
and extent of commercial sexual exploitation of children hinders the
knowledge regarding the magnitude of the problem. Seduction, Sale & Slavery: Trafficking In Women & Children For Sexual Exploitation In Southern Africa [PDF] www.iom.org.za/Reports/TraffickingReport3rdEd.pdf At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - The major findings may be summarized as follows: Mozambican victims include both
girls and young women between the ages of 14 and 24. They are offered jobs as
waitresses or sex workers in Johannesburg, and pay their traffickers ZAR 500 to
smuggle them across the border in minibus taxis either at Komatipoort
or Ponta do Ouro. They
stay in transit houses along South Africa’s border with Mozambique and
Swaziland for one night where they are sexually assaulted as an initiation
for the sex work that awaits them. Once in Johannesburg, some are sold to
brothels in the Central Business District (CBD) for ZAR 1000. Others are sold
as slaves on private order for ZAR 550, or shopped around to mineworkers on
the West Rand as ‘wives’ for ZAR 650. An estimated 1000 Mozambican victims
are recruited, transported, and exploited in this way every year, earning
traffickers approximately ZAR 1 million annually. All material used herein
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