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www.child-hood.com www.child-hood.com/index.php?id=722&type=6&type=6 [accessed 17 September 2011] 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 ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the
status of action against commercial exploitation of children - ROMANIA [PDF] ECPAT International, 2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-ROMANIA.pdf [accessed 12 July 2011] 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. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/romania.htm [accessed 19 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - It is estimated that about 30 percent of sex workers
in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61670.htm [accessed 19 December 2010] CHILDREN
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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) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
31 January 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/romania2003.html [accessed 19 December 2010] [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 www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=201344 [accessed 19 December 2010] WHY 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 Sofia News Agency, March 5, 2007 www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=77482 [accessed 13 July 2011] Child prostitution
in Dark side of migration Ana Maria Smadeanu
and Michael Bird, The Diplomat, 03 Oct 2006 www.mail-archive.com/romania_eu_list@yahoogroups.com/msg18419.html [accessed 19 December 2010] After working with
street children in both 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." 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 13 July 2011] [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. Deutsche Welle
DW-WORLD.DE, 22.06.2004 www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1243642,00.html [accessed 13 July 2011] The new law banning
foreign adoptions is meant to better protect Glenda Cooper, BBC News, news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3665646.stm [accessed 13 July 2011] 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 Cable News Network CNN www-cgi.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/index.easy.prey.html [accessed 19 September 2011] A Romanian
filmmaker returns to his native land to document child prostitution and
trafficking of Dead Souls Justin Logan, February 21, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly also be accessible [here] [accessed 13 July 2011] 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 Country
Information Terre des Hommes
via its Internet platform against sexual exploitation of children in tourism
www.child-hood.com www.child-hood.com/index.php?id=722&type=6&type=6 [accessed 17 September 2011] 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 Combating Human
Trafficking - Basic Education and Policy Support Activity
BEPS, October 2003 – June 2004 www.beps.net/child_labor/romania.htm [accessed 13 July 2011] BEPS launched a
pilot project using education to combat child prostitution and trafficking in
northeastern Children's Fund Announces Major Step
Against Child Pornography Radio Free Europe/Radio www.qlinks.net/items/qlitem12277.htm [accessed 13 July 2011] The United Nations
Children's Fund, or UNICEF, is praising Report submitted by Juan Miguel Petit,
Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 July 2011] The report focuses
on the sale of children in the context of trafficking of children and child
prostitution, and on child pornography and its links with domestic child
sexual abuse. Concerning the sale of
children, trafficking and child prostitution, the report relates information
presented to the Special Rapporteur by the Children’s Ombudsman (Défenseure des enfants), the
police, NGOs, as well as government ministries. According to this information, children are
being trafficked into Youth-Sex Trade
Flourishes In Post-Communist Eastern Paul Knox, [accessed 13 July 2011] They're the child
and teen-aged prostitutes of Trafficking
of children
[PDF] Report by Barbara Limanowska,
Trafficking in Human Beings in www.unicef.de/download/trafficking-see.pdf [accessed 13 July 2011] [Turn to: 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 - Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn, Vanessa Chirgwin, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, 1999 www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/romania.htm [accessed 13 July 2011] PROSTITUTION - There are
approximately 2,000 homeless children in Bitter winter for Harold Briley,
BBC News, January 2, 1998 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/43486.stm [accessed 13 July 2011] 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. Worst Forms of Child Labour
Report 2005 - Romania beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/romania.html [accessed 14 September 2012] CHILD
PROSTITUTION AND PORNOGRAPHY - 5% of the homeless children in Romania are in
prostitution. There are approximately
2,000 homeless children in Child
Prostitution Seen As Threat to Reuter, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/63/003.html [accessed 13 July 2011] 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 ECPAT: Trafficking in Children for Sexual Purposes ECPAT International Newsletter, Issue No :
33 1/December/2000 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] EASTERN EUROPE - All
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