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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Swaziland's Street Urchins Vuyisile Hlatshwayo, Africa Information
Afrique, in pangaea.org/street_children/africa/swazi.htm [accessed 26 July 2011] Nonhlanhla Hadzebe, a timid seven-year-old says: "The last time I saw my mother and father was when I was very little. I do not know where they are, but I know that they are still alive. At times I sleep without having eaten anything but I cannot complain -- to whom, anyway? I only pray to God that one day my parents will come back so that we can all be a family again." The study finds
that street children are often abused. Police spokesman, Sabelo Dlamini, said
that old men sodomize boys often as young as aged nine to thirteen. Many are
infected with sexually transmitted diseases. He says the street children are
enticed with E10.00 for a sex session. Before the molestation, they are
offered glue in order to keep them in "high" spirits during the
act. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/swaziland.htm [accessed 27 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - There are reports that girls from CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - The Penal Code prohibits the procurement of a girl
unless she is a “common prostitute” or “of known immoral character” for
purposes of prostitution. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/swaziland.htm [accessed 27 December 2010] CHILDREN
- The
law prohibits prostitution and child pornography, provides protection to
children under 16 years of age from sexual exploitation, and sets the age of
sexual consent at 16 years. There were reports that Mozambican and Swazi
girls worked as prostitutes in the country. Children, including street
children, were increasingly vulnerable to sexual exploitation. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) [DOC] UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
29 September 2006 [accessed 27 December 2010] [63] The Committee is
alarmed at the increasing rate of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse in The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/swaziland.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS
OF TRAFFICKING
– Young girls have been lured to Vuyisile Hlatshwayo, Africa Information
Afrique, in pangaea.org/street_children/africa/swazi.htm [accessed 26 July 2011] Nonhlanhla Hadzebe, a timid seven-year-old says: "The last time I saw my mother and father was when I was very little. I do not know where they are, but I know that they are still alive. At times I sleep without having eaten anything but I cannot complain -- to whom, anyway? I only pray to God that one day my parents will come back so that we can all be a family again." The study finds
that street children are often abused. Police spokesman, Sabelo Dlamini, said
that old men sodomize boys often as young as aged nine to thirteen. Many are
infected with sexually transmitted diseases. He says the street children are
enticed with E10.00 for a sex session. Before the molestation, they are
offered glue in order to keep them in "high" spirits during the
act. Human trafficking rife in SA Lebogang Seale, Independent Online (IOL)
News, 7 December 2006 www.iol.co.za/news/south-africa/human-trafficking-rife-in-sa-1.306483 [accessed 27 December 2010] They are promised a
better life in Harmonisation of laws relating to children
- Swaziland
[DOC] Prepared by Jacqui Gallinetti, The African
Child Policy Forum, November 05, 2007 www.africanchildinfo.net/documents/Swaziland
final Sarah.doc [accessed 26 July 2011] CHILD AND SEXUAL
ABUSE
- Swazi law does provide some guidance on child prostitution. This is
contained in Part V of the Crimes Act which criminalizes a parent or guardian
for receiving compensation in relation to the prostitution of his or her
child; creates an offence for
inveigling or enticing a girl who is not a common prostitute for the purposes
of prostitution and criminalizes a
person for procuring any girl to become a prostitute. Sadly, these provisions
provide no protections for girls who are already prostitutes and section 3 of
the Girl’s and Women’s Protection Act states that a girl being a common
prostitute is a defence for a perpetrator who has unlawful carnal connection
with her. These provisions show a
definite lack of understanding of the issues relating to children undertaking
sex work and the dangers that they are exposed to. In addition it appears that sex workers are
prosecuted in Traditional leaders
rescue James Hall, Daily Mail & Guardian, www.aegis.com/news/DMG/2000/MG000406.html [accessed 26 July 2011] The Manzini-based
Swaziland Action Group Against Abuse reports that some of the city's new
population of homeless street children have become victims of sexual
abuse. Street children were unknown
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