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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS -
Commercial sexual exploitation of minors continued to be a problem.
Commercial sexual exploitation remained primarily an internal issue. However,
perpetrators included foreigners, and there continued to be limited evidence
of international trafficking networks of minors to or through the country.
NGO and government efforts in prevention and education remained limited by
lack of resources and coordination problems. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2004 [58] The Committee welcomes the ratification
of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography. It remains concerned that sexual
exploitation and abuse continue to be serious problems and that the victims
of sexual exploitation do not have access to appropriate recovery and assistance
services. The Committee also remains concerned about the lack of data to
determine the real dimension of the problem of child abuse and sexual
exploitation and about the insufficient measures to prevent and combat
trafficking of children. ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Child
Prostitution: A Growing Scourge A REGION
OUT OF CONTROL - Little is known about the sexual exploitation of minors
in IPEC action against child trafficking SOUTH & CENTRAL AMERICA - The problem of sexual exploitation
in Central America is acute, but has gone largely unaddressed by most
governments. In Honduras and Panama,
the problem is barely recognized; in El Salvador, the Government has
expressed concern, but there is a lack of inter institutional coordination.
The situation is similar in Guatemala. Costa Rica has also expressed concern,
but there is no clear policy. Bureau
of Intl Labor Affairs - International Child Labor Program - Sept 2002 COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF
CHILDREN (CSEC) -
. "As they say in this dingy
border junction with Panama, everything has a price. Sex with children,
for example, starts at $14.41. ‘ Just take a look around,’ said Nautilio Sanchez, a furniture store and pharmacy owner
who is president of the local Council for Social Development. ‘There is no
playground, no swimming pool, the children have nothing and so they turn to
sex. Probably 60 percent of our prostitutes here are children, and what we're
facing now is a critical problem in search of a solution…So is all of Costa
Rica’” -Sikaola, Costa Rica: James Varney, The
Times Picayune (New Orleans) Treaties and Reports to Treaty Bodies THEMATIC
REPORTS - MECHANISMS OF THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS - The report refers to the
adoption of Act No. 15 of 1990, which categorized certain activities
involving minors (rape, sexual molestation and prostitution) as aggravated
offences. The government indicated to the Special Rapporteur that the law has
not succeeded in preventing such practices, partly because of the
sophisticated communications technology currently used by organized crime. All material used herein
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