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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Child prostitution is an increasing problem. Children have been
trafficked to Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country Reports
on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - Child prostitution was a problem.
To address the issue of child prostitution in the capital, the
Freetown City Council discussed the introduction of a regulation that would
bar minors from nightclubs, a common venue for commercial sex transactions,
but by year's end the city council had taken no action to pass such a
regulation. SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
Many girls, particularly those displaced from their homes and with few
resources, resorted to prostitution as a means to support themselves.
The international NGO World Vision
continued to help child prostitutes (girls between the ages of 14 and 20) by
paying their school fees, providing them with educational materials, and
caring for girl mothers. Out of 304 girls assisted, 86 were full-time sex
workers. Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) - 2000 [85] The Committee is concerned that
provisions in national domestic legislation providing protection to children
from sexual exploitation and abuse only offer such protection to children up
to the age of 14. [87] The Committee expresses its
deep concern with regard to the many incidents of sexual exploitation and
abuse of children, particularly in the context of the conscription or
abduction of children by armed persons and in the context of attacks on
civilian populations by armed persons, and particularly with regard to girls.
The Committee is also concerned at reports of commercial sexual exploitation
and of widespread sexual abuse of girls within the family, within internally
displaced person camps and within communities. ECPAT: Country Report - Sierra Leone As a result of the civil war and
the massive displacement of the population in the urban areas, particularly PERPETRATORS - The majority of perpetrators
are rich local nationals like civil servants, politicians and businessmen.
Other perpetrators are foreign tourists and, in countries affected by armed
conflict, military personnel. As a result of the war in UN
Special Envoy for Children and Armed Conflict applauds progress At the conclusion of a week-long
visit to Sierra Leone (22-28 February), Under-Secretary-General Olara A. Otunnu, the Special
Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, has
called upon the international community to continue to support the country in
the peace-building period so that the impressive gains made so far in the
rehabilitation and protection of war-affected children can be strengthened
and sustained. Efforts must also be undertaken,
the Special Representative said, to expand programs benefiting children and
improve social services in the rural areas to counter the abject poverty
afflicting families which in turn causes children to work in the streets, to
beg or to prostitute themselves. And with children all over the country
expressing their desire to attend school, Mr. Otunnu
said, a major effort is needed by Government and international partners to
improve on low enrolment rates and conditions in schools. News Archives [sierra-leone.org] 11 JUNE - In its 2003 report on human
trafficking, the State
Department described Internationally Recognized
Core Labor Standards In Sierra Leone This report assesses the
observance of internationally recognized core labor standards in Forgotten
Children of War - Sierra Leonean Refugee Children in Guinea UNHCR, REFUGEE CHILDREN: GUIDELINES ON
PROTECTION AND CARE -
Human Rights Watch also identified a serious problem of child prostitution in
the camps, where girls as young as twelve said that they feel compelled to
"play sex for money" in order to support themselves and, in some
cases, their families. As with the problem of sexual violence, very little
has been done by UNHCR to understand the problem of
child prostitution in the camps in Reports
That Child Refugees Sexually Exploited Shock Annan Refugee children in The
Experience of Refugee Children in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone This assessment was
initiated by UNHCR and Save the Children-UK (SC-UK)
due to growing concerns, based on their field experience, about the nature and
extent of sexual violence and exploitation of refugee children and other
children of concern to UNHCR 1 in
the countries of the Mano River Sub Region 2
in SIERRA LEONE: Agencies
act on issues of sexual abuse In February, UNHCR
and Save the Children-UK reported that refugee children in Guinea, Liberia
and Sierra Leone were subjected to sexual abuse and exploitation, reportedly
by employees of the United Nations, national and international NGOs, local
security forces and a wide range of other individuals. The UNHCR/SCF
report said the exchange of sex for money or gifts appeared widespread. The
victims were mostly girls aged 13 to 18, while the most vulnerable group
comprised orphans and children separated from one or both parents. The
perpetrators "are often men in positions of relative power and influence
who either control access to goods and services or who have wealth and/or
income," the report said. All material used herein
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