C S E C The Commercial Sexual
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situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking for
material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and how
some succeed in leaving. Perhaps your
paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their leaving. Other factors of interest might be poverty,
rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction, hunger, neglect,
etc. On the other hand, you might
choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who control this
activity. There is a lot to the
subject of Child Prostitution. Scan
other countries as well as this one.
Draw comparisons between activity in adjacent countries and/or
regions. Meanwhile, check out some of
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resources that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Malta ratifies
treaty banning sale, prostitution of children during annual UN event UN News Centre, 28 September
2010 www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=36261&Cr=treaties&Cr1= [accessed 20
February 2011] A top United
Nations official today hailed The treaty, one of
two Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights of the Child, extends
the obligations of States parties to guarantee the protection of children
from sale, pornography and prostitution, through explicit prohibition of
these acts in their laws. It strengthens the
protection of the rights of child victims and consolidates international
cooperation to fight impunity for crimes against children, including the sale
of children, trafficking and sexual exploitation. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Regional
Overview: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Europe [PDF] ECPAT International,
November 2014 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Regional%20CSEC%20Overview_Europe.pdf [accessed 3
September 2020] Maps sexual exploitation
of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child sexual exploitation
(OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes, sexual exploitation of
children through prostitution, and child early and forced marriage (CEFM).
Other topics include migration, child labour,
racism and dicsminitation, welfare systems, gender
inequality. Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/malta/ [accessed 3
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the commercial sexual exploitation
of children and child pornography, and authorities generally enforced the
law. The production of child pornography is prohibited and punishable by
imprisonment for five to 12 years. Possession of child pornography is punishable
by imprisonment of three to four years. The minimum age of consensual sex is
16. Rape of an underage person is punishable by sentences of six to 20 years.
As of the end of September, four persons were charged for sexual abuse of
minors. Concluding Observations
Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 2 June 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/malta2000.html [accessed 1 March
2011] [47] The Committee
is concerned at the insufficient data and awareness of the phenomenon of
commercial sexual exploitation of children in the State party, and at the
absence of a comprehensive and integrated approach to preventing and
combating this phenomenon. Malta is to ratify
six international conventions The www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=61224 [accessed 20
February 2011] The Cabinet has
approved the ratification of six international conventions. These are: The
Convention for Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters between European
Union Member States of 29 May, 2000, and the relevant protocol, the protocol
for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, on the Sale of
Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography; the European Council’s
Convention on Money Laundering, and the Financing of Terrorism; The United
Nations Convention against Corruption; the Convention for the Protection of
Financial Instruments of the European Communities, and the relevant
protocols; and the European Council’s Convention for Action against Human
Trafficking. 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 – Age
of Consent Laws Subject to Interpretation Dr. Aron Mifsud-Bonnici, 20 Aug 1998 www.ageofconsent.com/malta.htm [accessed 19 June
2011] Maltese law makes it
an offence for a person to "defile" a minor. Consequently, the predominant view is that
when a minor is involved (ie a person under the age
of 18) there is a criminal offence. This is, however, subject to
interpretation. Besides, the term
"defile" must be put in context. Eg, if a
person is sexually mature (even if minor) then he/she cannot be defiled. Thus
the sexual intercourse would probably be legal. One thing to note is that if a person
involved in a sexual relationship in under the age of 12 then there is a
legal presumption that there was rape.
Nonetheless, it is safer to state that the age of consent in National
Laws - Legislation of Interpol member states on sexual offences against
children Interpol, Spring
2006 www.interpol.int/Public/Children/SexualAbuse/NationalLaws/csaMalta.pdf [accessed 19 June
2011] I. AGES FOR LEGAL
PURPOSES
- Age of consent for a sexual activity - Eighteen (18) years. All
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