Human Trafficking in [Yemen] [other countries]Street Children in [Yemen] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Yemen |
Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children The |
|
CAUTION: The following links and
accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation
in ***
FEATURED ARTICLES *** Poor
Yemeni girls face job risks CHILD PROSTITUTION IN ADEN - Poverty, illiteracy and family
problems are the foremost reasons for prostitution in Aden, according to the
study, which reported that 33 percent of Adeni
girls between the ages of 13-16 who were surveyed entered this business to
earn a living, said Najeba Abdulghani,
a social researcher who worked on the study.
Many of the hotels in Aden have nightclubs that employ girls for this
purpose, along with brothels in the area. Seventy percent of the girls who
work in prostitution are runaways from other governorates who left their
homes to escape early marriages, ill-treatment from their parents or
husbands, or because of poverty. Another reason some girls are
forced into prostitution is the phenomenon of “tourism marriages” and
subsequent divorce. In Taiz and Ibb
as well, the high tourism season yields many visitors from wealthier Gulf
countries who get married to a Yemeni girl for one, two or three weeks during
their vacation so that they can legally have sexual relations. The visitors
will divorce the girl at the end of the vacation, leaving them to fend for
themselves. The study showed that 39 percent of these girl prostitutes in
Aden are divorced. Many of the girls come from poor, illiterate or uneducated
families, added Abdulghani. Street
children at increased risk of sexual abuse INCREASED NUMBER OF STREET CHILDREN - "If they have been on the
street for a long time, the chances of them being sexually
abused is around 90 percent," Shugaa
said. According to reports, boys as
young as eight have been lured into the cars of strangers for as little as
US$1, while others are sexually abused by older boys living rough on the
street - a dire reminder of the vicious circle of abuse found throughout the
world involving street children. Yet the boys, generally brought
into the center by police or the center's own outreach programme,
rarely divulge the abuse they have suffered.
"I never did those kinds of bad things, but I know others who
have," one 13-year-old boy at the center whispered, glancing away from
the peering eyes of other boys. "When you are hungry you do what you
have to do," he said, adding he knew of several occasions when a boy
would be brought to a man's home for a few days and routinely abused, before
being let go. "Yes, there are some bad boys
doing bad things," said another child at the centre who did not know his
own age and who had been left on the streets by his mother to fend for
himself after the death of his father in 1995. ***
ARCHIVES *** Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005 [66] The Committee is very
concerned that regardless of the fact that child sexual abuse and sexual
exploitation of children are reported to be serious problems in the State
party, those issues have not been sufficiently addressed. The Committee is
particularly concerned at: (a) The absence of legislation clearly prohibiting
child sexual abuse and the lack of a clear definition of the term in the
State party as well as the lack of a legislation which clearly defines sexual
consent; (b) The absence of statistics and data on the issue of child sexual
abuse; and (c) Traditional attitudes regarding the subject (inter alia,
concepts like family honor) which implies a majority of abuse cases go
unreported. Poor
Yemeni girls face job risks CHILD PROSTITUTION IN ADEN - Poverty, illiteracy and family
problems are the foremost reasons for prostitution in Aden, according to the
study, which reported that 33 percent of Adeni
girls between the ages of 13-16 who were surveyed entered this business to
earn a living, said Najeba Abdulghani,
a social researcher who worked on the study.
Many of the hotels in Aden have nightclubs that employ girls for this
purpose, along with brothels in the area. Seventy percent of the girls who
work in prostitution are runaways from other governorates who left their
homes to escape early marriages, ill-treatment from their parents or
husbands, or because of poverty. Another reason some girls are
forced into prostitution is the phenomenon of “tourism marriages” and
subsequent divorce. In Taiz and Ibb
as well, the high tourism season yields many visitors from wealthier Gulf
countries who get married to a Yemeni girl for one, two or three weeks during
their vacation so that they can legally have sexual relations. The visitors
will divorce the girl at the end of the vacation, leaving them to fend for
themselves. The study showed that 39 percent of these girl prostitutes in
Aden are divorced. Many of the girls come from poor, illiterate or uneducated
families, added Abdulghani. Street
children at increased risk of sexual abuse INCREASED NUMBER OF STREET CHILDREN - "If they have been on the
street for a long time, the chances of them being sexually
abused is around 90 percent," Shugaa
said. According to reports, boys as
young as eight have been lured into the cars of strangers for as little as
US$1, while others are sexually abused by older boys living rough on the
street - a dire reminder of the vicious circle of abuse found throughout the
world involving street children. Yet the boys, generally brought
into the center by police or the center's own outreach programme,
rarely divulge the abuse they have suffered.
"I never did those kinds of bad things, but I know others who
have," one 13-year-old boy at the center whispered, glancing away from
the peering eyes of other boys. "When you are hungry you do what you
have to do," he said, adding he knew of several occasions when a boy
would be brought to a man's home for a few days and routinely abused, before
being let go. "Yes, there are some bad boys
doing bad things," said another child at the centre who did not know his
own age and who had been left on the streets by his mother to fend for
himself after the death of his father in 1995. ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Yemen's
Street Children Vulnerable to Numerous Abuses Available information indicates
that ECPAT:
Agenda for Action Report - 2002 [DOC] [p.80 line 23] Whenever a CSEC victim is taken
to court in Yemen, and it has been proven that the child has been sexually exploited,
the child is taken care of by governmental officials. These officials have
the responsibility of referring the child to a suitable governmental
shelter/institution where the child is protected and rehabilitated through
recovery procedures. In these shelters, trained social workers and medical
professionals offer health services and conduct extra curricular activities
such as sports with the aim of reducing the chances of the children going
back to their “original” environments. 5.1
Middle East - State of CSEC/ Attitudes toward CSEC [PDF] While Commercial
sexual exploitation of children - Middle East/North Africa region 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
reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC §
107 for noncommercial, nonprofit, and educational use |
Human Trafficking in [Yemen] [other countries]Street Children in [Yemen] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [Yemen