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and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Senegal. Some of these
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misleading or even false. No attempt
has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking for
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interest to you. You might 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, you might
choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who control this
activity. There is a lot to the
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other countries as well as this one.
Draw comparisons between activity in adjacent countries and/or
regions. Meanwhile, check out some of
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for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** ECPAT: CSEC in West
Africa ECPAT International
Newsletters, Issue No : 34
1/March/2001 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 17 July
2011] CONTRIBUTING FACTORS - Child
prostitution is inextricably linked to socio-economic difficulties and child
labour where young children are forced to work and/or prostitute themselves
to provide for the family. Other reasons behind the increase in CSEC in the
region are urbanisation, high illiteracy rates,
early and forced marriage, unemployment, low status of women in the society,
consumerism, civil conflict and tourism. SEX TOURISM - Senegal is a major tourist
destination with seven to eight months of peak tourist season. According to
UNICEF Senegal, sex tourism has emerged as a new phenomenon. Boy prostitution
is said to be on the increase, and children of both sexes harass tourists in
the bid to lure clients. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Overview
[PDF] Chloé Baury
et Valentine Josenhans, ECPAT International, June
2019 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ECPAT-Country-Overview-Research-Report-Senegal-2019.pdf [accessed 7
September 2020] [FRENCH] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Senegal,
Africa. The overview gathers existing publicly available information on sexual
exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child sexual
exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes, sexual
exploitation of children through prostitution, child early and forced
marriage (CEFM) and identifies gaps, research needs, and recommendations. 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/senegal/ [accessed 7
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law provides that convicted sexual abusers of children
receive five to 10 years’ imprisonment. If the offender is a family member,
the maximum is applied. Procuring a minor for commercial sexual exploitation
is punishable by imprisonment for five to 10 years and a fine of 300,000 to
four million CFA francs ($500 to $6,800). If the crime involves a victim
younger than 13, the maximum penalty is applied. The law was not effectively
enforced, but when cases were referred to officials, authorities conducted
follow-up investigations. The minimum age for consensual sex is 18. Pornography is
prohibited, and pornography involving children younger than 16 is considered
pedophilia and punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment and fines of up to
300,000 CFA francs ($500). Exploitation of
women and girls in prostitution and sex trafficking was a problem,
particularly in the southeast gold-mining region of Kedougou.
Although there were no reports of child sex tourism during the year, the
country was considered a destination for child sex tourism for tourists from
France, Belgium, and Germany, among other countries. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor U.S. Dept of Labor
Bureau of International Labor Affairs, 2005 www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/senegal.htm [accessed 21
December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - There are reports of Gambian girls working in the
Senegalese sex industry. Senegalese girls are reported to work in Gambia in
conditions of sexual exploitation, and some who go for domestic service become
vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2006 [DOC] UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 29 September 2006 www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/898586b1dc7b4043c1256a450044f331/b10f8e9681275570c125722d002cef25/$FILE/G0644838.doc [accessed 21
December 2010] [64] The Committee
welcomes the efforts made to sensitize and protect children against sexual
exploitation. However, the Committee
is concerned at the lack of: (a) Data on sexual exploitation, including sex
tourism and trafficking in children to the State party; (b) Protection and/or recovery assistance for
children victims of sexual exploitation; (c) Legislation to protect children from sexual
exploitation including sex tourism; and (d) Implementation of existing legislation e.g.
the rule prohibiting sexual intercourse with a girl under the age of 12 (Penal Code,
art. 300). 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 – SENEGAL – CSEC is now recognized as a problem in Senegal and
the phenomenon is on the increase. Incidents of pedophilia are on the
increase and there are frequent reports of it in the local press. According
to DCI Senegal, over 400,000 children in Senegal are living under extremely
difficult circumstances. Over 50% of them are engaged in dangerous activities
like begging and hawking and are very vulnerable to CSEC. Some parents
encourage their children into begging and prostitution. According to UNICEF,
sex tourism has also emerged as a problem. ECPAT: Trafficking
in Children for Sexual Purposes ECPAT International,
November 2000 -- Looking Back Thinking Forward - The fourth report on the implementation
of the Agenda for Action adopted at the World Congress against Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children held in Stockholm, Sweden, August 1996 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18
September 2011] WEST AFRICA - In Senegal,
girls from the Southern Cassamance region, where a
guerrilla war is going on, go to work as domestics in neighboring Gambia
where they are very vulnerable to CSEC. There is also a huge in-country
trafficking from rural to urban cities in the region. These children are
trafficked to serve as domestics but end up trapped in the circle of
prostitution. Some are trafficked mainly for prostitution in the urban areas. UNICEF: Study On
The Sexual Abuse And Exploitation Of Children In The Gambia [DOC] Dr. Yankuba Kassama, Secretary of
State for Health and Social Welfare, The Gambia, December 2003 www.unicef.org/media/files/gambia_report.doc At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 17 July
2011] CHAPTER
2 -
There is nearly universal agreement among varied informants that children
engaged in prostitution around the Senegambia Tourist Area near Banjul are
predominantly underage, many as young as 12 and that 60% to 70% of tourists
come here for the sun, relaxation and cheap sex. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT - Report on
the scale, scope and context of the sexual exploitation of children [PDF] Chloé Baury et Valentine Josenhans, ECPAT International, June 2019 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ECPAT-Country-Overview-Research-Report-Senegal-2019.pdf [accessed 25 August
2020] [FRENCH] - Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Senegal,
Africa. The overview gathers existing publicly available information on
sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child
sexual exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes,
sexual exploitation of children through prostitution, child early and forced
marriage (CEFM) and identifies gaps, research needs, and recommendations. 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/2005/61589.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
- During the year the government arrested, prosecuted, and convicted
traffickers. During the year there were prosecutions for rape, pedophilia, prostitution, and abuse of talibé children; however, there was no system to
regularly collect statistics on cases. The human rights commissioner and the
family ministry were the government's coordinators on human trafficking
issues. Young girls from
both urban and rural areas were involved in prostitution, which NGOs claimed
involved an adult pimp to facilitate commercial sex transactions or provide
shelter. All
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