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FEATURED ARTICLE *** A 15-Year-Old's Story of Prostitution - Poverty
and cynicism in Harare, Zimbabwe keep young women from escaping Nelson G. Katsande, OhmyNews, NELKA, 2006-August-15 english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=310922&rel_no=1 [accessed 18 August 2011] Tambudzai, age 15, grew up on a farm in Mazowe, northeast of Following his death, poverty was
unavoidable. Tambudzai was expelled from school for
non-payment of fees, and none of her father's relatives offered to help. Her
dream of becoming a nurse had been shattered. Left to fend for herself, she
was lured into the venality of city life and found herself in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/zimbabwe.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Over the past few years, the number of children living on the
streets has continued to rise and there are reports of children involved in
commercial sexual exploitation. CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - The Penal Code prohibits children from visiting or residing in a brothel,
and prohibits anyone from causing the seduction, abduction, or prostitution
or children. Under the Sexual Offenses Act of 2001, a person convicted of
prostituting a child under the age of 12 years is subject to a fine of up to
ZWD 35,000 (USD 6.00) or imprisonment of up to 7 years. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61600.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] CHILDREN - There were an estimated 1.3
million HIV/AIDS orphans by year's end, and the number was increasing. The
number of AIDs orphans (including children who lost
one as well as both parents) was about 10 percent of the country's
population. Many grandparents were left to care for the young, and, in some
cases, children or adolescents headed families and were forced to work to
survive. AIDS orphans and foster children were at high risk for child abuse.
Some children were forced to turn to prostitution as a means of income.
According to local custom, other family members inherit before children,
leaving many children destitute. Many such children were unable to obtain
birth certificates, which then prevented them from obtaining social services. TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS - There
were reports of child prostitution, trafficking in children, and child labor.
NGOs reported an increase in child prostitution since Operation Restore
Order. As with adults, reports suggested that those children in desperate
economic circumstances, especially those in families headed by children, were
most at risk. One local NGO reported that traffickers took girls from rural
areas to city brothels in cities under the false pretenses of job or marriage
promises. The NGO reported that rural girls were sometimes trafficked to
farms as agricultural labor or to urban areas as domestic labor, where they
were sometimes sexually abused. The Curse of Child Prostitution Vimbai Komani,
The Herald, 10 April 2009 allafrica.com/stories/200904100077.html [accessed 18 August 2011] "My heart bleeds when I see
young girls of primary school level engaging in prostitution. More hotels in
the country have become notorious in entertaining these young girls that are
seen loitering at their foyers and their premises as they search for
clients," says Trevor Mutunami from Nyamapanda, a town bordering Child prostitution, however, is
not only about little girls as young boys are also increasingly being
targeted. The International
Organisation for Migration has identified this as a growing problem in Chiredzi where boys are leaving for A 15-Year-Old's Story of Prostitution - Poverty
and cynicism in Nelson G. Katsande, OhmyNews, NELKA, 2006-August-15 english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=310922&rel_no=1 [accessed 18 August 2011] Tambudzai, age 15, grew up on a farm in Mazowe, northeast of Following his death, poverty was
unavoidable. Tambudzai was expelled from school for
non-payment of fees, and none of her father's relatives offered to help. Her
dream of becoming a nurse had been shattered. Left to fend for herself, she
was lured into the venality of city life and found herself in AIDS, Pregnancy and Poverty Trap
Ever More African Girls Sharon LaFraniere, New York
Times, Patrice Lumumba [accessed 18 August 2011] 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 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 – CHILDREN: Those The Anti-AIDS Campaigners Forget Isabella Matambanadzo, Inter
Press Service News Agency IPS, www.aegis.com/news/ips/1996/IP960601.html [accessed 18 August 2011] Generally, the boys do odd jobs
such as guarding parked cars, while the girls beg. But destitution transforms many children of
both sexes into easy prey for people who sexually exploit them in exchange
for a little money, warm clothes, a pair of old shoes or simply a hot meal.
The children's immaturity and powerlessness make them less likely than, for
example, commercial sex workers, to insist on condoms. This increases their
chances of being infected with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV. Analysis of the Situation of Sexual Exploitation of
Children in the Eastern and Southern Draft Consultancy Report Prepared as a component of the
UNICEF – ESARO & ANPPCAN
Partnership Project on Sexual Exploitation and Children’s Rights, October,
2001, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/csec-east-southern-africa-draft.html#_Toc527979963 [accessed 18 August 2011] [4.1]
FACTORS PREDISPOSING CHILDREN TO COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION –
INTRODUCTION - [7] Demand for Sexual Services: The
phenomenon of sugar daddies and sugar mummies is common in the region in
countries such as Kenya, Swaziland, Lesotho, South Africa, and Mozambique and
is steadily rising in Zimbabwe. Children are wooed by gifts, presents,
money and other material rewards in return to sex. Sex tourism is growing due
to an influx of tourists in the region. Pimps, madams, middlemen and parents
or others facilitate child prostitution in many societies within the
region. Child prostitution occurs in brothels, massage parlors,
streets, bars and discotheques. Lower prices charged by young girls sometimes
fuel the demand for child prostitutes. The girl prostitutes are easily
controlled by bar owners and ‘madams’ and hence owners of brothels seek out
young girls since they can easily be exploited. All material used herein
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