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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In
the early years of the 21st Century
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Sex Exploitation a Growing Problem Raul Ronzoni, Inter Press
Service News Agency IPS, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/42/218.html [accessed 8 August 2011] “The money that Yamila took in
daily was generally the only thing sustaining the family”, her mother said
when a court prosecuted her for the crime of inherent omission of the duties
of parental authority. The mother denied that she forced her daughter
into prostitution. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004
Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/uruguay.htm [accessed 7 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In 2002, the state government of Maldonado reported that sex
tourism and child prostitution had increased in a number of locations in the
state. There are also reports of child
prostitution in rural areas with high unemployment rates..
Several types of prostitution have been reported, including of very
poor and homeless children around factories and in slums, in downtown bars
and pubs, on the street, and through pimps. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61744.htm [accessed 7 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS -
According to police sources, commercial sexual exploitation of women and
children occurred mostly in the states bordering Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 11 October 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/uruguay1996.html [accessed 7 January 2011] [6] The Committee is concerned at
the insufficient measures adopted to harmonize national legislation with the
principles and provisions of the Convention. [7] The Committee, while
recognizing the efforts undertaken by the authorities in the collection of
data, is concerned at the insufficient measures adopted to collect
disaggregated data on the situation of all children, particularly those
belonging to the most disadvantaged groups. 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 – The National Institute for Minors
(Instituto Nacional del Menor) has created a commission to address CSEC. At the
time of publication, the commission had only been formed for a month. The
fact that a commission had been formed indicates that the Uruguayan
government is finally taking a step, albeit an initial one, to address the
problem. Trafficking In Persons Report - 2004 US Embassy, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 August 2011] [18.C] The number of minors
engaged in prostitution has increased in the past year according to AMEPU,
Casa de los Ninos, IIN
and INAME. The increase is attributed to the sustained economic problems in
the country, a dwindling middle class and a growing number of families that
are subsisting in poverty. The result is a growing acceptance by poor
families of child prostitution as a source of income. La Casa de los Niños Casa de los Niños www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/59a35a7764a234e77aed61e1f3f2f52d [accessed 8 August 2011] La Casa de los
Niños focuses on two kinds of activities. The first
is to develop programs to treat and rehabilitate victims of commercial and
non-commercial sexual exploitation of children. The second type of activity is the
continuous training of professionals from all fields related to this problem
(police, judicial system, education system, health care system) and social
operators from different intervention levels in the detection of CSEC. Sex Exploitation a Growing Problem Raul Ronzoni, Inter Press
Service News Agency IPS, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/42/218.html [accessed 8 August 2011] “The money that Yamila took in daily was generally the only thing
sustaining the family”, her mother said when a court prosecuted her for
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