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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 - 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. The Global March Against Child Labour www.globalmarch.org/resourcecentre/world/romania.pdf [accessed 13 July 2011] CHILD
PROSTITUTION - 5% of
the 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 material used herein
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