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SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN TOURISM - LAW - The sexual abuse of
children in Romania is punished with prison sentences of up to fifteen years.
Romania ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in October
1990, and in January 2002 it ratified the optional protocol on child
trafficking, child prostitution, and child pornography ***
ARCHIVES *** www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-ROMANIA.pdf A number of street children in Furthermore, sexual exploitation
of children in tourism has been exacerbated by the development of the tourism
industry in Romania. At the end of the 1990s, a series of cases involving
European and American child sex exploiters traveling to Romania to gain
sexual contact with children signalled that this
particular form of sexual exploitation threatened to add to the numerous
trafficking and other issues related to the commercial sexual exploitation of
children (CSEC) that the country already faced. While it does not seem that
an organised child sex tourism industry has
developed, there is evidence that the country is visited by foreign nationals
seeking sexual contact with children, and appropriate prevention measures
must be taken to avoid any increase of these types of crimes against
children. U.S.
Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - It is estimated that about 30 percent of sex workers in Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Trafficking in girls for the
purpose of sexual exploitation was a problem. There also were isolated cases
of children involved in prostitution for survival without third party
involvement. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2003 [58] The Committee notes the
establishment in 2001 of a national Task Force on Trafficking, the adoption
of a national plan of action on trafficking, as well as the increased efforts
of the State party to cooperate in regional programs to prevent trafficking
and assist victims. Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned that New Center in
Romania to Aid Missing and Exploited Children WHY ROMANIA? v
The number of missing children reported missing in Romania has
steadily increased from 244 in 2003, to 660 in 2004, to 750 in 2005. v
There are an estimated 100,000 homeless children throughout Eastern Europe,
including 2,000 in Romania. Child trafficking and child prostitution are
problems in Romania and represent a large threat throughout Eastern Europe.
Homeless or "street" children are frequent victims. An estimated 5
percent of the homeless children in Romania are forced into child
prostitution. v
An estimated 30% of sex workers in Bucharest are under 18 years of
age. Romania, and in particular Bucharest, is one of the key travel
destinations in Europe for child sex offenders. v
Romania is a country of origin and transit for women and girls who are
internationally trafficked from Moldova, Ukraine, and other parts of the
former Soviet Union to Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Child
Prostitution Flourish in Bulgaria, Romania www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=77482 Child prostitution in www.thediplomat.ro/features_1006_1.htm After working with street children
in both Australia and Romania, Matei was approached
in 1998 by police in Pitesti who asked if she could
help with some girls between 14 and 17 forced to work as prostitutes. She asked the local authorities
for help. "But they did not understand what I meant by children forced
into prostitution," says Matei. "No one
wanted to work with them. The orphanages did not want the girls because they
thought they would set a bad example to the other kids." ECPAT: Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for
Action [DOC] www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/publication/other/english/Doc_page/ecpat_5th_a4a_2001_full.doc At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] [62] A National Plan of Action
against sexual abuse and exploitation of children is awaiting approval before
Government and legislation covering sexual abuse of children is being
reconsidered. Some stipulations of the Penal Code have been
modified and the punishments for involving children in sexual acts or
producing pornographic materials have been substantially
increased. These changes have resulted from an increase in the
number of reported cases, as well as pressure from NGOs which have developed
various prevention and intervention programs for eliminating sexual abuse and
exploitation but which, without an adequate legislative framework, were not
efficient. Romania Bans
Foreign Adoptions The new law banning foreign
adoptions is meant to better protect Romania's Blighted
Street Children But he is most concerned by the increased targeting of these children by
traffickers and pedophiles. "They
are taken in a car and sold like an animal, and used for prostitution in
different houses," he said. He
did not believe how bad the problem was until he discovered an illegal
brothel near his sister's house.
"He had girls, starting with eight- or nine-year-olds - most of
them coming up off the street" Easy
Prey - Inside the Child Sex Trade A Romanian filmmaker returns to
his native land to document child prostitution and trafficking of Maybe the most shocking thing was
that the children seemed to go from giddiness to extreme discomfort when they
found out that the man wanted to talk with them, not have sex with them. It
was the talking that they saw as violation. The documentary showed the
author bargaining with a Romanian father outside of a graveyard in COMMERCIAL
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN TOURISM - LAW - The sexual abuse of
children in Romania is punished with prison sentences of up to fifteen years.
Romania ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in October
1990, and in January 2002 it ratified the optional protocol on child
trafficking, child prostitution, and child pornography Basic Education and Policy
Support Activity (BEPS) BEPS launched a pilot project
using education to combat child prostitution and trafficking in northeastern Children's Fund Announces Major Step Against Child Pornography The United Nations Children's
Fund, or UNICEF, is praising Report On The www.unhchr.ch/html/menu2/2/60chr/summaries/13_E.doc At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
According to this information,
children are being trafficked into Youth-Sex Trade
Flourishes In Post-Communist Eastern Europe They're the child and teen-aged
prostitutes of 1.1.2. Trafficking
of children www.unicef.de/download/trafficking-see.pdf Anecdotes
of child prostitution around train and bus stations, mainly of Roma children,
are common. The Romanian Embassy is not
interested in repatriating these children and adolescents, and no special
programs or services exist for migrant children living on the streets. Factbook
on Global Sexual Exploitation - Romania PROSTITUTION - There are approximately 2,000
homeless children in Romania. Many of them are forced to accept money for sex
to survive. AIDS is an increasing problem. (Harold Briley,
"Bitter winter for Romania’s street children," BBC, 2 January 1998) 5% of the
homeless children in Bitter
winter for Romania's street children Some of the girls are
child prostitutes. When you are 11 or 12, with nowhere to go and nothing to
eat, it seems an easy - and sometimes the only - way to survive. Unaware of
the dangers, they fall pregnant, and their babies die. Those that don't, they
abandon because their unformed breasts contain no milk to feed them.
Occasionally there is a girl cradling a sickly baby. Some of the children
have AIDS, doomed to die before they become adults. ROMANIA -
Report On The Worst Forms Of Child Labour [PDF] CHILD
PROSTITUTION - 5% of
the homeless children in Child Prostitution
Seen As Threat to Eastern Europe Victims were being recruited among
an estimated 100,000 homeless children in eastern Europe, according to the
survey by the ECPAT organization.
Child prostitution was rife in bars, hotels and around train stations.
Experts blamed local gangsters, poverty, and lax attitudes developing as a reaction
after the fall of puritanical communist regimes. It said...boy prostitutes came mainly from Looking Back, Thinking Forward - The 4th report on
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