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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children Kingdom of Norway [ Country-by-Country
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Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 WOMEN - Prostitution is legal, but organized prostitution and pimping are illegal.
NGOs and the government estimated that 2,500 to 3,000 persons sell sexual
services. A few of these persons were men, and NGOs reported that a few
persons selling sexual services appeared to be under the age of 18, although
they generally claimed to be older. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005 [3] The Committee welcomes a
number of measures taken by the State party to implement and strengthen the
protection of the rights covered by the Optional Protocol, including the
2003-2005 National Plan of Action to Combat trafficking, the special Plan of
Action on Children’s and Young People’s Use of the Internet and the
Awareness, Facts and Tools Protect to disseminate knowledge about safe use of
the Internet and combat sexual abuse of children and sexual exploitation of
children [4] The Committee also notes with
satisfaction the incorporation of the Optional Protocol into Norwegian Law by
the Human Rights Act in October 2003. ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – After some initial skepticism, the
street-children quickly realized that here was someone who sincerely wanted
to help, without asking anything in return.
During that summer they made about 4,000 sandwiches, and when the
institutions reopened Arne had no inclination to stop the work. The
drug-addicts, prostitutes, criminals, homeless and alcoholics had become
"their kids" - whatever their ages. Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children in the Baltic Sea Region THE TASK
FORCE ON ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE ACTIVITIES - ECPAT Norway has had several
years with very high activity. It established a campaign against child sex
tourism in cooperation with the authorities, and the tour operators took part
in the West and East European research on trafficking of minors and arranged
two Nordic conferences on child sexual exploitation. A network with relevant organisations and individuals was established as well as
a website. It also had youths connected to its work engaged in presenting
lectures for minors and in other relevant settings. In 2004, ECPAT Norway renewed the
campaign against child sex tourism and distributed leaflets all over the
country. It has continually lobbied the government for making a plan to take
care of trafficked children in Norway and has worked extensively on
monitoring and advocacy work against the sexual exploitation of children on
the Internet. The study examined the entry of 10
young girls into prostitution; this had occurred when all of them were under
16 and the study found that eight of them had had a traumatic childhood, with
broken homes, neglect, violence, alcohol abuse, uncertainty and betrayal.
Some were sexually abused. On average, they had their first experience with
drugs at age 12, first sex at 13, prostitution debut at 14. Some explained
that their entry into prostitution had been a cry for help, a
"solution" to a difficult childhood, a
wish for love, to be seen and acknowledged. Ambassadør Johan M. Løvald -
New York, 18. oktober 2004 We all know that chronic poverty remains
the single biggest obstacle to meeting the needs of children and protecting
and promoting their rights. Poverty is a breeding ground for human rights
violations, and it also gives rise to conflict and child abuse. Conflict in
turn reinforces poverty. We must intensify our efforts in
conflict-prevention, humanitarian assistance, peacebuilding
and long-term development co-operation. Norway will allocate more to
development, and will seek to persuade other donor countries to do the same.
The Norwegian Government’s goal is to increase our Official Development
Assistance from the current level of 0.93 to 1 per cent of GNI by 2005. One
in 12 children forced into world's 'worst forms' of labor UNICEF UK said that 350 million
children aged five to 17 worked, and that 180 million of them were
"involved in the worst forms of child labour
-- hazardous work, slavery, forced labor, in armed
forces, commercial sexual exploitation and illicit activities". UNICEF UK lauded the pledge of
developed countries, made more than 30 years ago, of allocating 0.7 percent
of gross domestic product to development aid but regretted that only five
countries today fulfill that promise -- Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Sweden. All material used herein
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