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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
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child prostitution
and the spread of AIDS AIDScience, December 20, 2000 aidscience.org/Newsarticle.asp?Article=20 [accessed 22 March
2011] There are at least 13
million children in The Moroccan AIDS
Service Organization began a study to gather information regarding the habits
of male prostitutes in hopes of recommending a preventative methods program.
The study revealed that male prostitutes had little or no awareness of the
dangers of HIV and had no skills sets with which to bargain with their
clients for safe sex. Although a program educating people about the disease
and the prevention of it was established as a result of the study, efforts
are hampered because local police consider the possession of condoms as proof
of illegal prostitution and, thus, many prostitutes are reluctant to carry
the prophylactics with them. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Djabir Riziki,
ECPAT International, 2015 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A4A2011_MENA_MOROCCO-3.pdf [accessed 3
September 2020] [FRENCH] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Morocco.
The report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive measures,
child and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes recommendations for
action against SEC. 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/morocco/ [accessed 3
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The age of consent is 18. The law prohibits
commercial sexual exploitation, sale, offering or procuring for prostitution,
and practices related to child pornography. Penalties for sexual exploitation
of children under the criminal code range from two years’ to life
imprisonment and fines from 9,550 dirhams ($1,000) to 344,000 dirhams
($36,100). The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/morocco.htm [accessed 21
February 2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Girls and boys working as domestic servants and
street vendors are increasingly targets of child sex tourism, particularly in
the cities of Marrakech and Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 6 June 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/morocco2003.html [accessed 21
February 2011] [62] The Committee
welcomes the hosting by the State party of the Arab-African Forum Against Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children in preparation for the Yokohama Conference
and notes that the Penal Code is under review regarding this issue, but
remains concerned at the high incidence of sexual exploitation in the State
party. The Committee is also concerned
at the fact that the legislation of the State party does not protect all
children below 18 years from sexual exploitation as various ages have been
set in several acts regarding sexual exploitation. The Committee is further concerned at the
status of child victims of sexual exploitation who may be treated as
offenders. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International,
November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13
September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and
Social Council Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January
2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 22 June
2011] [56] Awareness
about sexual exploitation is increasing. In May 2002, King Mohammed VI
requested the Children’s Parliament to pay particular attention to the
question of child victims of violence, and a committee of experts has now
been appointed to develop a national program against the maltreatment and exploitation
of children. A recent revision of article 446 of the Penal Code
provides that certain professionals, notably doctors, must report suspicions
of violations having been committed against children. Other
developments include the creation by the Ministry of Human Rights of a
network of centers to provide judicial and psychological assistance to
children in difficult circumstances and child victims of
violence. However, sex outside marriage is illegal and those over
12 are criminally liable; accordingly, children in prostitution between 12
and 18 would bear criminal responsibility. Thematic Reports: Special Rapporteur
On The E/CN.4/2001/78,
paras. 5, 70;
E/CN.4/2001/78/Add.1, 7
November 2000 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 June
2011] Concerning the prostitution
of boys, the report notes that: the primary reason for boys entering
prostitution has to do with their being sent by their families, or choosing
for themselves, to leave their homes to seek employment. On the prostitution of girls, the report notes
that unlike boys, it is not culturally acceptable for girls to live on the
street. Many of the girls who work in
the brothels in El Hajeb are former child
maids. With regard to child sex
tourism, the SR noted that child sex abuse is largely carried out by
Moroccans and that there have been few reported cases where children have
been used in prostitution for foreigners. The authorities acknowledged,
however, that this type of abuse is very hidden and that such cases would
rarely come to their attention. ECPAT International
CSEC Overview - ECPAT International At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 June
2011] It is difficult to
obtain information on the nature and extent of CSEC in 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 [PDF] ECPAT International,
November 2000 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 June 2011] Child sex tourism
is most apparent in A Situational
Analysis of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Dr. Najat M'jid, ECPAT
International, March 2003 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 June
2011] [2.1.1]
Prevalence - Official statistics provided by police and judiciary services do
not reflect the entire situation because these statistics are based on what
cases actually reach police and judiciary personnel. For example, according
to police and judiciary services: • 1999:
102 cases (17 rapes, 63 attacks on decency, 19 cases of prostitution, 3
other) • 2000:
69 cases (9 rapes, 36 attacks on decency, 14 cases of prostitution, 2 other) • 2001:
210 cases •
2002: 38 cases of adults charged with procuring or
incitement of minors to prostitution. 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 22 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. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41728.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] WOMEN
- The
law prohibits prostitution;
however, it was prevalent, especially in urban centers. NGO activists
estimated that there were thousands of teenage prostitutes in urban centers. Their
clientele were both foreign tourists and citizens. In July the government
acted against sex tourism, convicting 60 local prostitutes in Agadir, a resort town.
Authorities also arrested three young women in Agadir after their photographs
were discovered on a pornographic Web site. The arrests drew criticism from
human rights activists, who pointed out that the men involved, tourists from
Gulf countries and TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Prostitution of trafficked minors was a particular problem in the village
of El Hajeb near Meknes, as well as in Agadir and
Marrakech, which attracted sex tourists from Europe and the Arab Gulf states.
To combat prostitution the
government amended the penal code in 2003 to make sex tourism a crime, while
other amendments increased the penalties for promoting child pornography and
child prostitution and for
employing underage children. Recent arrests indicate that the amendment had
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