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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Strengthening the Protection of Children through the Law
against Human Trafficking Dr Haimoud Ramdan,
Charge d’Affaires, Department of Justice, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 June 2011] The commercial sexual exploitation
of children for commercial purposes has developed gradually in ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - MAURITANIA [PDF] ECPAT International, 2007 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/AF/Global_Monitoring_Report-MAURITANIA.pdf [accessed 19 June 2011] Commercial sexual exploitation of
children (CSEC) appears to be a relatively recent phenomenon in Child prostitution in Mauritania
is essentially an urban phenomenon, found primarily in capitals and large
cities, where foreign and local tourists and expatriates are common. It has
been reported that parents often send girls from the countryside to larger
cities to find work and some of them end up living in houses where
prostitution is practiced. The parents receive small amounts of money from
their children and often remain ignorant as to its exact source. A number of studies focusing on
street children found that many are being exploited through prostitution,
including boys. According to a study by Father François Lefort,
street children are targeted by unscrupulous adults, often foreigners, who
exploit them either as pimps or directly. In a 2003 report, he attested to
having treated 103 children abused by seven westerners. He also reported
that, out of 400 children living without their families in the streets of The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/mauritania.htm [accessed 20 February 2011] CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - The Criminal Code establishes strict penalties for engaging in
prostitution or procuring prostitutes, ranging from fines to imprisonment for
2 to 5 years for cases involving minors. The Law Against Human Trafficking
expands the scope of trafficking for cases involving children. Fines for violation
of the law include 5 to 10 years of forced labor and a fine. In addition, the
Criminal Code sets a penalty of 5 to 10 years’ imprisonment for the use of
fraud or violence to abduct minors. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 12 October 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/mauritania2001.html [accessed 20 February 2011] [53] The Committee encourages the
State party to ratify the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the Rights
of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography, and on the involvement of children in armed conflict. 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 – Strengthening the Protection of Children through the Law
against Human Trafficking Dr Haimoud Ramdan,
Charge d’Affaires, Department of Justice, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 June 2011] The commercial sexual exploitation
of children for commercial purposes has developed gradually in A Situational Analysis of Commercial Sexual Exploitation
of Children in Maye Mint Haidy,
ECPAT International, March 2003 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 June 2011] [2.1.1]
PROSTITUTION -
Prostitution is essentially an urban phenomenon in ECPAT Directory: Middle East & North Africa -
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