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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Suffering to succeed - Violence and abuse in schools in
Togo [PDF] Plan www.crin.org/docs/plan_ed_togo.pdf [accessed 31 July 2011] Sexually transmitted marks - One
of the consequences of the proliferation of violence in Togolese schools is
that there appears to be a crisis of confidence in the education system among
schoolchildren themselves, certainly in the areas when Plan • you’ve agreed to have sex with
the teacher, or you’ve refused • you’ve worked in the teacher’s
fields, or you haven’t • you’ve offered money and gifts
to the teacher, or you haven’t • you’re a boy who’s regarded by a
male teacher as a competitor for a certain girl, so you’re marked down – or
believe you’re marked down Plan ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - TOGO [PDF] ECPAT International, 2007 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/AF/Global_Monitoring_Report-TOGO.pdf [accessed 31 July 2011] There is a general perception
among social workers and professionals working in child protection that the
commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/togo.htm [accessed 30 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - UNICEF estimated that 66.2 percent of children ages 5 to 14 years
were working in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61597.htm [accessed 30 December 2010] TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
- There were reports that
young girls were trafficked to The country was a transit point
for children trafficked from Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 28 January 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/togo2005b.html [accessed 30 December 2010] [70] While noting the efforts made
by the State party to prevent and combat sexual exploitation of children, the
Committee is concerned that: (a) little data is available on the extent and patterns of
sexual exploitation and prostitution of children; (b) that Existing legislation intended
to protect children from sexual exploitation and prostitution is neither
sufficient nor effective; and (c) that child victims of sexual
exploitation often do not receive adequate protection and/or recovery
assistance. Suffering to succeed - Violence and abuse in schools in
Togo [PDF] Plan www.crin.org/docs/plan_ed_togo.pdf [accessed 31 July 2011] Sexually transmitted marks - One of
the consequences of the proliferation of violence in Togolese schools is that
there appears to be a crisis of confidence in the education system among
schoolchildren themselves, certainly in the areas when Plan • you’ve agreed to have sex with
the teacher, or you’ve refused • you’ve worked in the teacher’s
fields, or you haven’t • you’ve offered money and gifts
to the teacher, or you haven’t • you’re a boy who’s regarded by a
male teacher as a competitor for a certain girl, so you’re marked down – or
believe you’re marked down Plan Togo has discovered that the
expression ‘notes sexuellement transmissibles’
(sexually transmitted marks) is in widespread use in secondary schools. It’s
a subtle play on words, but what it conveys is the conviction of secondary
school students that success at school has very little to do with how clever
or hard-working you are. And that suggests a complete lack of faith in
teachers and in the education system as a whole. Koranic schools in Reuters, www.wilayahnetwork.com/news/?id=13836 [accessed 31 July 2011] Until recently most countries in Committee on the Rights of the
Child (CRC) - Summary Record of 1018th Meeting UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1 February 2005 www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/%28Symbol%29/CRC.C.SR.1018.En?OpenDocument [accessed 31 July 2011] [5] Ms. Boyoti-N'DadiyA
( 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 – TOGO
– The government department Direction de la Protection et Promotion de la Famille et de l’Enfant reports that
Togo’s national plan on child abuse and child trafficking has been helpful in
the fight against CSEC. Civil society is more sensitized; the Department
receives CSEC related complaints almost daily; law enforcement officers are
more aware; and more perpetrators are being prosecuted. However, full
implementation of the plan is still a problem because of financial
difficulties. Child prostitution goes unchecked in Togo U.N. Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN, archive.wn.com/2004/04/24/1400/p/e9/7a09c562f9d480.html [accessed 30 December 2010] Adjo is 11 years old and tries hard to
look sexy in her black mini-skirt and skin-tight blue swimsuit top. She told IRIN over a drink in a bar filled
with cigarette smoke and drug dealers lurking in the background that she
likes foreign customers best. They pay better and treat her more respectfully
than Togolese men. Child Trafficking in Livina Nkiruka Agwunobi, 14
September 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 July 2011] Sometimes, children are left to
the lender as a pawn for a borrowed sum. They are, sometimes, left in
exchange for money to a female or male agent without the parents having the
chance to influence his fate after the deal. They are recruited or brought by
agents in Clamp down on child prostitution Agence France-Presse
AFP, www.news24.com/Africa/News/Clamp-down-on-child-prostitution-20050731 [accessed 1 August 2011] In Dekon,
one of Lome's poor neighbourhoods,
the Devissime or young girls' market as it is known
in the local language Mina, is one of the city's busiest prostitution zones. ECPAT: CSEC in ECPAT International Newsletters, Issue No : 34 1/March/2001 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 1 August 2011] SEX TOURISM - Child sex tourism has been
reported in CONFRONTING
THE PROBLEM -
Increasingly governments are willing to acknowledge that CSEC is a growing
problem within their borders, as well as the region, and are making efforts
to combat it. The Togolese government, for example, has developed a national
action plan on child trafficking and child abuse. The Department for the
Protection and Promotion of the Family and of Children has been carrying out
education and sensitization campaigns against sexual exploitation and the
trafficking of children for sexual purposes. In addition, it has been
cooperating with governments of neighboring countries, particularly NATIONAL
ACTION PLAN - The
Stockholm Declaration and Agenda for Action on the Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children was adopted by 122 governments in 1996. Fourteen
countries from All material used herein
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