C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
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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,
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control this activity. There is a lot
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Scan other countries as well as this one. Draw comparisons between activity in
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims Ministry of Manpower ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Zina Khoury and Sirsa Qursha, ECPAT International, 2020 [accessed 6
September 2020] This Regional
Overview on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA), consolidates the relevant
existing data to map the context, risk factors, region-specific issues,
responses and gaps in the fight against the issue. In addition to providing
external audiences with a summary and analysis of the SEC, this report will
also serve as an advocacy tool that highlights good practices by governments
and other actors, and identifies opportunities for improvements. Keywords:
child marriage, war and conflict, LQBTQI, SOGIE, gender norms, taboo. 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/oman/ [accessed 6
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - Commercial sexual exploitation of children and child
pornography are punishable by no fewer than five years’ imprisonment. The
penal code increased the punishment for rape of a child younger than 15 to
life imprisonment. The minimum age of consensual sex is 18. Marriages
performed in the country require both parties to be at least 18, but there
were reports of Omani men traveling abroad to marry underage girls. Local
authorities sometimes accepted these marriages, and it was unclear if
statutory rape would be prosecuted if the parties were married. All sex
outside of marriage is illegal, but sex with a minor
younger than 15 carries a heavier penalty (up to 15 years’ imprisonment).
Authorities do not charge minors. There were no known reports of child
prostitution; soliciting a child for prostitution is prohibited. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) [DOC] UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 29 September 2006 www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/898586b1dc7b4043c1256a450044f331/fa5a9fc611efa876c1257259004f990d/$FILE/G0645119.doc [accessed 15
December 2010] [65] While noting that
the domestic legislation prohibits forced child prostitution, manufacturing, acquiring
or distribution of pornographic materials, bondage and slave trade, the
Committee is concerned about the potential of the State party to be or become
a destination country of trafficking in children owing to the large number of
migrants in search of employment. It notes with concern the lack of data and
the lack of research on the prevalence of national and cross-border
trafficking, child prostitution and child pornography. Concern is also
expressed about the lack of a comprehensive procedure to identify children
who may be victims of trafficking and the absence of adequate recovery and
reintegration services for these victims. Five Years After
Stockholm [PDF] 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 – Slavery of Children
and women in Morteza Aminmansour,
Persian Journal, Jun 20, 2004 At one time this article
had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 17
September 2011] Exact number of
victims is impossible to obtain, but according to an official source in UAE,
there has been increase in the number of teen-age girls in prostitution
(forced to work from 5.1 Middle East -
State of ECPAT International,
Looking Back Thinking Forward, November 2000 -- The fourth report on the
implementation of the Agenda for Action adopted at the World Congress against
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children held in At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 17
September 2011] In the wealthy oil
producing states, (e.g. Commercial
sexual exploitation of children: The situation in the Middle East/ This summary is
based on the situation analysis written by Dr Najat M’jid for the
Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 29 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 *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/oman.htm [accessed 5 March
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT- The Penal Code assigns a penalty of at least 5 years
imprisonment for individuals found guilty of enticing a minor into an act of
prostitution. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61696.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] CHILDREN
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There were no reports of child prostitution. Child labor existed in the
informal, subsistence, and family business sectors of the economy; however,
it was not a problem in the organized labor market. 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/oman2001.html [accessed 5 March
2011] [55] 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. All
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