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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Street children are especially vulnerable to commercial sexual
exploitation, and the problem of child prostitution is widespread in Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN - There are laws that criminalize
child prostitution; however, the law was not enforced effectively, and child
prostitution was widespread. The presence of an estimated 30 thousand street
children in Lusaka contributed to the proliferation of street begging and
prostitution. The laws against pornography and the sexual exploitation of
children under the age of 21 were sporadically enforced. Trafficking of children for sexual
exploitation occurred. During the year the government
continued implementation of a strategy to provide shelter and protection to
street children, including prostitutes. The Ministry of Labor reported that
the majority of the five thousand children removed from child labor during
the year were street children. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2003 [64] The Committee is concerned
about the large and increasing number of child victims of commercial sexual
exploitation, including for prostitution and pornography, especially among
girls, child orphans and other disadvantaged children. Concern is also expressed at the
insufficient programs for the physical and psychological recovery and social
reintegration of child victims of such abuse and exploitation. AIDS,
Pregnancy and Poverty Trap Ever More African Girls But for the last 25 years, the
trends had been positive. African girls, like girls elsewhere, were marrying
later, and a growing percentage were in school. The AIDS epidemic now threatens to take
away those hard-won gains. Orphaned and impoverished by the deaths of
parents, girls here are being propelled into sex at shockingly early ages to
support themselves, their siblings and, all too often, their own children. In Zambia's capital, Lusaka,
impoverished relatives order some orphaned girls as young as 14 out on the
street at night, telling them they must earn their keep, a recent survey
found. In ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – ZAMBIA - Increases in CSEC in Zambia have been attributed to a number of factors,
including poverty caused by an economic crisis, HIV/AIDS, peer pressure, a
desire for material wealth, and early marriage leading to divorce. The
growing number of families headed by children, the result of HIV/AIDS, has
meant that older children are turning to prostitution in order to gain income
for their siblings’ needs. Reports indicate that some foreign nationals in Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] [80] In Zambia, concerns are being
expressed that the dramatic declines in school attendance in areas affected
by household food and water insecurity are the result of parents putting
young girls into prostitution in order to cope financially with the
crisis. UNICEF Zambia and government experts from the Gender and
Development Office were carrying out investigations into these reports. HIV/AIDS and Child Labor
In Zambia: A Rapid Assessment PREVALENCE
OF COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION (CSE) among children aged 14 to 16
years was common. Half of the 34 in-depth interviews were conducted with CSE victims. Girls claimed they slept with as many as 4
men per night and their earnings ranged between US$0.63 and US$2.10 per act.
Condoms were rarely used. Boys clients tended to be rich widows who paid in
dollars In southern Sex work rife among
street children Commercial sex work has become
increasingly common among children aged 14 to 16. When educated about the danger of HIV/AIDS,
they say that AIDS is something in the future and that their hunger is a more
real and pressing need. Zambia
should save its own children... When Tomaida Tembo received news of her impending trip to Lusaka, she
was 500 km away in Katete’s Kathumba
village in the Eastern Province. The
11-year-old did not know how to react.
Lusaka to her, has been a mythical place and according to those that
had been to the city, it was a place of “agebenga” (bandits)
and the “akapenta” (prostitutes) who patrolled and patronised the streets of the city of ‘lights’. What had been a mythical place to Tomaida was soon to become reality. To make her travelling
easy, the distant cousin had sent enough money to cover her travelling expenses and a lot more to help her mother
settle down after her departure. That
was five years ago since the morning Tomaida left
the sanctuary of her mother on a journey that changed her life forever. Wondering on the cold streets of Lusaka, Tomaida awaits her next client on Addis Ababa drive. Massive child labour in Zambia denounced Neither were children safe from
the perils of prostitution. The report states that "there are reports of
forced prostitution [in Zambia], particularly of children, of the trafficking
of women and children to neighbouring countries for
the purposes of prostitution, and of combatants from neighbouring
Angola kidnapping Zambians and taking them back to Angola to perform various
forms of forced labour." - htcp The Protection Project - Zambia [DOC] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - HIV/AIDS, coupled with poverty, has contributed to the
proliferation of street children and child labor in Zambia. About 80 percent
of Zambia’s population lives in degrading conditions. Poverty pervades both
rural and urban areas, pushing most women, adolescents, and children into the
informal sector of the economy, where they sell a variety of goods, their
labor, or their bodies. Prostitution is rife in major towns and smaller urban
areas. Nearly 1 million children are reportedly orphaned in the country, and
75,000 live on the streets. Nearly half of Zambian children, regardless of
orphan status, are not enrolled in primary s.
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