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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In the first ten years of the 21st
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Families Partners In Child Sex Trade www.lilith-ezine.com/articles/sex/Thai-Families-Selling-Children-to-Sex-Trade.html With prices varying from $114 to $913—the latter figure equal to almost six years' wages for most families—parental bonds in impoverished households are easily broken. In fact, child prostitution is so established that many brothel agents live in the village, and are often friends or relatives of the family from whom they buy the children. The agents also approach the thousands of girls from Burma, Laos and southern provinces of China who cross the border annually. Many wind up working as prostitutes in Singapore, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates and Australia. ***
ARCHIVES *** Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS - During the
year, there were a number of media reports of trafficking in women and girls
into the country, especially to ECPAT: Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for
Action [DOC] www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/publication/other/english/Doc_page/ecpat_5th_a4a_2001_full.doc At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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COUNTRY UPDATES – UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – It seems that the major problem of concern in the U.A.E.: Muslim Federation Of States Is Hub of
International Prostitution www.ummah.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-40531.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
The latest U.S. State Department
report on human trafficking, released in June, sharply criticizes the U.A.E.
government for failing to tackle the links between prostitution and illegal
trafficking. The report says: "The United Arab Emirates is a destination
country for men, women, and children trafficked primarily from South and East
Asia and the former Soviet Union for the purposes of sexual and labor
exploitation." www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/irc/newsdesk_articles.asp?SCID=1462 In February 2002, the accused
adopted the underage girl, as it became known later, with a view to sexual exploitation.
She took the 12-year-old girl to the UAE three months afterwards, where the
girl (an ethnic Tatar) was for the first time forced into prostitution. The
following year, they stayed in In February 2003, they were
deported from the UAE, but this did not stop the resourceful
"mother", and the girl was taken to Thai
Families Partners In Child Sex Trade www.lilith-ezine.com/articles/sex/Thai-Families-Selling-Children-to-Sex-Trade.html With prices varying from $114 to
$913—the latter figure equal to almost six years' wages for most
families—parental bonds in impoverished households are easily broken. In fact, child prostitution is so
established that many brothel agents live in the village, and are often friends
or relatives of the family from whom they buy the children. The agents also approach the thousands of
girls from Slavery of Children and women in Persian gulf countries www.iranian.ws/cgi-bin/iran_news/exec/view.cgi/2/2675 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Exact number of victims is
impossible to obtain, but according to an official source in UAE, there has
been increase in the number of teen-age girls in prostitution (forced to work
from Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - Armenia 2002 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18351.htm [f]
TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - However, most parents and relatives were convinced that they were
sending such children to work in the UAE
or elsewhere as models, dancers, waitresses, or domestic servants.
Traffickers themselves were often ex-prostitutes or pimps who have already
established "good working contacts" in the country of destination. They
were well organized, have connections with local authorities and were
supported and protected by criminal gangs. 5.1 Middle East - State of CSEC/ Attitudes toward CSEC [PDF] www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/Publication/Other/English/Html_page/4th_a4a/English/Mdeast.pdf At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
While Commercial sexual exploitation of children - Middle East/North Africa region www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html These countries also have in
common, however, a number of constraints that have hindered preparation of
national plans of action. In all the countries of the region, there is
cultural resistance to addressing the problem because the subject is largely
taboo. Often the issue is dealt with
more generally under headings such as ‘violence’ and ‘trauma’. This means that there has been no regional
consensus on defining CSEC in law; in some countries, for example, it is
looked upon as an indecent act, in others as rape, although in all 20
countries there is some section of the penal code that can be invoked against
sexual abuse and exploitation. All material used herein
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