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FEATURED ARTICLE *** ECPAT: CSEC Overview - Country Report www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/Country/CSECOverview/Spain.html [Last access date unavailable] In recent years the Spanish
Government has started showing more attention to the problem of Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children. Cases of organized trafficking of women and
girls for sexual exploitation and numerous investigations of child pornography
networks with links in the country through Internet have put pressure on the
Government to take action, in cooperation with local and international NGOs
as well as with other European governments. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61676.htm [accessed 24 December 2010] CHILDREN - Child prostitution
occurred. Trafficking in teenage girls
for the purpose of sexual exploitation was a problem. TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS - The
country was both a destination and transit country for trafficked persons for
the purpose of sexual exploitation (most frequently involving forced prostitution and work in nude dancing
clubs) and, to a lesser degree, forced labor (primarily agriculture,
construction, and domestic employment). Trafficked women were usually 18 to
30 years of age, but some girls were as young as age 16. Concluding Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of
The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7 June 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/spain2002.html [accessed 24 December 2010] [48] The Committee expresses its
concern at reports of child prostitution in the suburbs of large cities and
in holiday resorts, involving vulnerable children living on the fringes of
society. 10% of the Spanish know cases of child sex tourism Euskal Irrati Telebista (Basque Radio-television) EITB upgrade69new.bnvillage.co.uk/showthread.php?t=86730 [accessed 24 July 2011] [scroll down to #23] One out of ten Spanish citizens
knows or has heard someone of his surroundings say that he has had sex
relations with children during a trip to developing countries, according to
the report "Sexual exploitation of children during travels,"
unveiled Wednesday by UNICEF. The profile of this kind of
people, according to UNICEF, is not that of a pederast, but of an
"occasional sexual abuser," more exactly a man aged between 40 and
60 who is in search of adult prostitution and ends up having sex with a
child. The main sex tourism destinations are the Caribbean Islands and
Central America, UNICEF said. Five Years After 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 – Report by Special Rapporteur [DOC] U.N. Economic and Social Council, Commission on Human
Rights, Fifty ninth session, 6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 18 September 2011] [66] The Penal Code criminalizes
the authors and the accomplices of those who sell and traffic children, and
who induce or facilitate the involvement of children in prostitution and
pornography. Law 5/2000 regulates the legal responsibility of
children aged between 14 and 18 who are involved in the commission of
offences covered by the Penal Code, as well as describing the special
measures in the judicial process to which juvenile delinquents are
entitled. Concerning aggression and
sexual abuse, the Penal Code provides for harsher penalties when the victim
is under 13. Spanish police have broken up a gang of Romanian human
traffickers Siskind's Immigration Bulletin www.visalaw.com/05jun4/8jun405.html [accessed 24 December 2010] INTERNATIONAL ROUNDUP - Spanish police have broken up a
gang of Romanian human traffickers who were faking identity documents and
credit cards. Twenty-two people have been arrested, the majority of them
Romanians. The gang specialized in
bringing Romanian women, often under-age girls, to FG Smashes Human Trafficking Syndicate Kingsley Newzeh & Iyefu Adoba, This Day, allafrica.com/stories/printable/200501250914.html [partially accessed 18 September 2011 - access restricted] The Executive Secretary said, from
evidence uncovered so far, investigators suspect that they may be keeping at
least 20 young Nigerian girls in sexual slavery in ECPAT Spain launches a new Campaign Against CSEC ECPAT International At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 24 July 2011] A campaign has been launched in Leticia Robles de la www.cronica.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=208126 [accessed 24 July 2011] Spanish: Las niñas
mexicanas vírgenes de 12 años, por ejemplo,
son vendidas a los burdeles españoles en 25 mil dólares, pero si se trata de pequeñas indígenas bellas, el precio aumenta, pues los "clientes" las cotizan como
un atractivo adicional. English: "Twelve-year-old virgin
Mexican girls, for example, are sold to brothels in ECPAT: CSEC Overview - Country Report www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/Country/CSECOverview/Spain.html [Last access date unavailable] In recent years the Spanish Government
has started showing more attention to the problem of Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children. Cases of organized trafficking of women and girls
for sexual exploitation and numerous investigations of child pornography
networks with links in the country through Internet have put pressure on the
Government to take action, in cooperation with local and international NGOs
as well as with other European governments. All material used herein
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