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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In the
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Street Children of www.voanews.com/english/2005-05-27-voa1.cfm At one time this article had been archived
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A decade of conflict has made
poverty in At a truck park in the eastern
part of the capital, many children come to sleep in the empty shells of cars.
Prostitutes and drug addicts also come there. Eight-year-old Hannah Masany was found in the parking lot. She had been out on
the streets since she was six. Hannah's father was killed during the war, and
her mother could not afford to look after her. Hannah said that she was not afraid on the
streets, as older street children helped take care of her. But many girls as
young as Hannah will have sex with men in order to earn enough money to
eat. "People come along -- it is
a kind of enterprise which has just developed recently, it's a very quick way
of getting money," says ACC Senior Councilor John B. Koroma. ***
ARCHIVES *** U.S.
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. Street Children of www.voanews.com/english/2005-05-27-voa1.cfm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
A decade of conflict has made
poverty in At a truck park in the eastern
part of the capital, many children come to sleep in the empty shells of cars.
Prostitutes and drug addicts also come there. Eight-year-old Hannah Masany was found in the parking lot. She had been out on
the streets since she was six. Hannah's father was killed during the war, and
her mother could not afford to look after her. Hannah said that she was not afraid on the
streets, as older street children helped take care of her. But many girls as
young as Hannah will have sex with men in order to earn enough money to eat. "People come along -- it is a kind of
enterprise which has just developed recently, it's a very quick way of
getting money," says ACC Senior Councilor John B. Koroma. ECPAT: Country Report - Sierra Leone www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/Country/ChildProstitution/Sierra%20Leone.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
As a result of the civil war and
the massive displacement of the population in the urban areas, particularly ECPAT: CSEC in www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/IRC/articles.asp?articleID=5&NewsID=5 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] 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 www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/40658142EEC597B4C1256CDE002C8734?opendocument
www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/7ea80a16b952712185256cdb006897d6 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 www.icftu.org/www/pdf/clssierraleone2005.pdf www.eldis.org/static/DOC10505.htm 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 www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=23126&SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=GUINEA-LIBERIA-SIERRA_LEONE At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Refugee children in The Experience of Refugee Children in www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/UNID/6010F9ED3C651C93C1256B6D00560FCA?OpenDocument The contents of this article had
appeared under a different title and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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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