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situation in the HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims Police, Criminal Investigation ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Thai
Families Partners In Child Sex Trade The Lilith eZine, The Lilith Gallery Network, Mae Sai, www.lilith-ezine.com/articles/sex/Thai-Families-Selling-Children-to-Sex-Trade.html [accessed 8 August
2011] 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 ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Regional
Overview – Sexual Exploitation of Children Middle East and North Africa [PDF] Zina Khoury and Sirsa Qursha, ECPAT International, 2020 [accessed 9
September 2020] This Regional Overview
on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in the Middle East and North
Africa (MENA), consolidates the relevant existing
data to map the context, risk factors, region-specific issues, responses and
gaps in the fight against the issue. In addition to providing external
audiences with a summary and analysis of the SEC, this report will also serve
as an advocacy tool that highlights good practices by governments and other
actors, and identifies opportunities for improvements. Keywords: child marriage,
war and conflict, LQBTQI, SOGIE, gender norms, taboo. Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/united-arab-emirates/ [accessed 9
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law criminalizes the sexual exploitation of
children, with a minimum penalty for conviction of 10 years in prison.
Consensual sex is illegal outside of marriage, carrying a minimum penalty of
one year in prison. The penalty for conviction of sex with children younger
than 14 is life imprisonment. Distribution and consumption of child
pornography is illegal. Five Years After
Stockholm [PDF] 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 – 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 Peyman Pejman,
Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1053654.html [accessed 8 August
2011] 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 A woman, native of Asia-Plus news
agency, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 August
2011] 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 Woman jailed for
forcing child into sex trade Independent Online
(IOL) News, www.iol.co.za/news/world/woman-jailed-for-forcing-child-into-sex-trade-1.226224 [accessed 6 January
2011] Last week a
non-governmental organisation said there was a
growing trend in the abduction and sale of Tajik boys for sexual exploitation
abroad. The Modar organisation
said groups in the United Arab
Emirates, Turkey, Pakistan and other countries were prepared to pay as
much as $70 000 for a Tajik boy between the ages of 10 and 12. Slavery
of Children and women in Morteza Aminmansour,
Persian Journal, Jun 20, 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 August
2011] 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 Human Rights
Reports » 2002 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
– www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18351.htm [accessed 8 August
2011] [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 ECPAT International,
Looking Back Thinking Forward, November 2000 -- The fourth report on the
implementation of the Agenda for Action adopted at the World Congress against
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children held in At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 August
2011] While
Commercial sexual
exploitation of children - Middle East/ based on the
situation analysis written by Dr Najat M’jid for the
Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Rabat, Morocco,
24-26 October 2001 -- Source document (in French): Rapport sur la situation
de l’exploitation sexuelle
des enfants dans la région MENA, 10 septembre 2001 www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 8 August
2011] 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. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61701.htm [accessed 5 April
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
- During the year, there were a number of media reports of trafficking in
women and girls into the country, especially to All
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