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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Girls offer sex to earn pocket money childexploitation.org At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] Increasing numbers of young girls
in Singapore are offering sex for sale on Internet chatrooms,
shrugging the transaction off without any remorse or fear of AIDS. Although
the situation here is less dire than in Japan, counsellors
and social workers cite cases of girls as young as 13 having no qualms over
paid sex to obtain pocket money. They blame the nonchalant attitude on
neglectful parents, the lack of stigma on losing one's virginity, the
pervasive message of one-night stands on television and advertisements that
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ARCHIVES *** Human
Rights Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61626.htm [accessed 22 December 2010] CHILDREN - Some child prostitution
occurred. In 2004, 35 of the more than 5,239 foreign women arrested for
prostitution were believed to be under the age of 18. Sexual intercourse with
girls under the age of 16 is illegal, but there is no legal prohibition on
commercial sex with "consenting" partners ages 16 and 17. The
authorities have the power to detain persons under the age of 21 who are
believed to be engaged in prostitution, as well as to prosecute those who
organize or profit from prostitution, who bring women or girls to the country
for prostitution, or who coerce or deceive women or girls into prostitution. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights
of the Child, 3 October 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/singapore2003.html [accessed 8 March 2011] [14] The Committee notes with
appreciation the considerable proportion of the national budget devoted to
health and education. Yet, it is
concerned that resources allocated for social services for children are
insufficient to respond to national and local priorities for the protection
and promotion of children’s rights and are not commensurate with budgetary
allocations of other States at a similar level of economic development. [46] The Committee notes that the
State party has not ratified the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the
Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography, and on the involvement of children in armed conflict. Girls offer sex to earn pocket money childexploitation.org At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] Increasing numbers of young girls
in tough to castrate child sex tourism Charles At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] Laws against child prostitution are easy to legislate but difficult to implement What of Singapore? It has been
accused by non-governmental organisations of
closing its eyes to Singaporeans visiting Batam where
there are many underage sex workers. Currently, there is no law to prosecute
those involved in child sex overseas, although the act is strictly prohibited
by domestic law. Reuters, www.financialexpress.com/old/latest_full_story.php?content_id=104550 [accessed 18 July 2011] Anyone caught paying for sex with
girls under 18 years of age in Sex Tourism Measuroo At one time this article had been archived and may possibly
still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] CHILD
PROSTITUTION - Several
countries have severe laws making sex with children a serious offense if
practiced abroad (even if it is not forbidden by the laws of the foreign
country). Adopt-A-Poster National Committee for UNIFEM, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] They are hoping to raise money to
place the posters/postcards at strategic locations all over Thai families partners in child
sex trade - Border area's products are Drugs and Daughters Andrew Perrin, San Francisco Chronicle, Mae Sai www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/06/MN11926.DTL [accessed 18 July 2011] The agents also approach the
thousands of girls from Devi Asmarani,
The Straits Times, 8 June 2004 yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/indonesias-shameful-export [accessed 18 July 2011] The UNICEF says as many as 70,000
Indonesian children have been sold across the country's borders as sex
commodities. They are employed in countries such as All material used herein
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