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that present allegations that are unsubstantiated, misleading or even
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Lure of Logging Creates Another Headache Alfred Sasako, Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 18 September 2011] To give you some idea as to what
always happened, here’s a transcribed interview with a 10-year-old boy
featured in the report. “When the
[logging] ship came, I went to look. Lots of children went to look. We went
out in canoes for [selling] market [goods]. They were all Asian men. “We sold them coconuts. We did not go
onboard. We were not allowed. Some girls were allowed. They were not children
but they were not mature women [they were teenagers]. LOVE OF MONEY:
“The Asian men gave them $10 each to come onboard. There were about 10 of
them. I don’t know what they did onboard. No boys were allowed. The girls did
not come for market—they did not bring anything to sell”. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2005 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2005/tda2005.pdf [accessed 22 December 2010] INCIDENCE AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Commercial sexual exploitation of
children is a problem in the CHILD LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - The procurement of girls under
18 years of age for the purposes of prostitution is prohibited under the
Penal Code (“Offences Against Morality”). The Penal Code provides sanctions
for the abduction of children. Human Rights Reports » 2006
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78791.htm [accessed 22 December 2010] WOMEN - Prostitution is illegal, but the
statutes were not enforced. There is no law specifically against sex tourism,
although such offenses could be prosecuted under laws against prostitution.
There were some press reports of sex tourism during the year, but no specific
cases were reported to the police. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 June 2003 www.universalhumanrightsindex.org/documents/829/552/document/en/text.html [accessed 22 December 2010] [54] The Committee is very
concerned that: (a) Children of both
sexes are exposed to prostitution due to economic difficulties; (b) There is a lack of guidance on the role
of police intervention in this field, as well as an absence of institutions
dedicated to the rehabilitation of child victims; (c) There is very little data on the number
of children being exploited. Lure of Logging Creates Another Headache Alfred Sasako, Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 18 September 2011] To give you some idea as to what
always happened, here’s a transcribed interview with a 10-year-old boy
featured in the report. “When the
[logging] ship came, I went to look. Lots of children went to look. We went
out in canoes for [selling] market [goods]. They were all Asian men. “We sold them coconuts. We did not go
onboard. We were not allowed. Some girls were allowed. They were not children
but they were not mature women [they were teenagers]. LOVE OF MONEY: “The
Asian men gave them $10 each to come onboard. There were about 10 of them. I
don’t know what they did onboard. No boys were allowed. The girls did not
come for market—they did not bring anything to sell”. Andre Vltchek, Asia-Pacific
Journal: japanfocus.org/-Andre-Vltchek/2770 [accessed 20 July 2011] THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL
LOGGING - Logging,
mining and fishing by foreign fleets brought several glaring problems to the Solomons, the most chilling being child prostitution and
child pornography. Time Magazine ran a story “Sold and abused” on March 27,
2006, claiming that “… many visitors are sexually abusing the country’s
children – and parents, politicians and police seem powerless to stop them.” “Child prostitution was the most prominent
type of exploitation, with 25 stories collected, affecting 36 children.
Children ranged from age 11 through to 19, with most children being aged 13
to 15 years. Click [here]
to access the article. Its URL is not
displayed because of its length [accessed 18 September 2011] Children in The report, by the UN Children's
Fund Pacific, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
and End Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography and Trafficking of Children
for Sexual Purposes, is based on studies in 2004 and 2005 in Fiji, Kiribati,
Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. The report in its summary said the
five studies confirmed that in each country children were sexually abused by
family members and neighbours, and that child
prostitution, child pornography, early marriage, child sex tourism and
trafficking occurred. Child sex tourism offences in the Pacific Adapted from: ECPAT International Newsletter,
February-March, No. 51, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 July 2011] Report on the Pacific Regional Workshop on Combating
Poverty and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth [PDF] Inter-Agency Group (IAG) consisting of ESCAP, UNICEF-EAPRO
and ECPAT International, Nadi Fijii, 15-19 September,
2003 www.unescap.org/esid/GAD/Issues/CSEC/Pacific_Regional_Consultation_report_Sept2003.pdf [accessed 10 June 2011] [p.52] CSEC - There are few records or
studies of CSEC in the Delegates agree to strengthen efforts to reduce demand for
CSEC Joint Media Release: ECPAT International, UNESCAP, UNICEF
- 11 November 2004, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 18 September 2011] In the ECPAT International, CSEC Database At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 20 July 2011] CHILD PROSTITUTION - During a child protection conference held by The
Solomon Islands Family Support Centre in January of 1999, many confirmed the
existence of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in the
country. Violation of Children’s and Women’s Rights: The Case of
Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation [PDF] Ms. Mehr Khan, UNICEF Regional
Director, www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/slru/ic2003/Khan.pdf [accessed 16 April 2011] Although smaller in scale, the
commercial sexual exploitation of children also appears to be escalating in
the Pacific Islands, in particular in Fiji and the Solomon Islands, which are
becoming major destinations for child sex tourism, especially for
Australians. All material used herein
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