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authenticity has not been verified and their content has not been validated. 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 Harare. Her mother died in a bus
accident when she was barely six. Her father was a farm laborer, and after
the farm was sold to new owners they were forced to leave. Her father died a
few months later after succumbing to a bout of malaria. 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 Abduction 1996:
August Cape Town Central Business District Rebirth Africa Life on the Continent, www.rebirth.co.za/a_true_story_of_how_one_girl_was_traf.htm [accessed 18 September 2011] Alicia, fourteen
years old, on Thursday afternoon 8 August 1996: Media
Sensationalism A ‘Disservice’ To Youth Sex Workers Andrea Woo “Children on the Street. Media
sensationalism a ‘disservice to youth sex workers,” www.tamark.ca/wpj/andrea/children.html [Last access date unavailable] When
they found her in February 2001, she was cold, beaten and pumped full of
stimulants. She was an
out-of-towner—originally from Tulasa and the Horrors of
Child Prostitution - Sold And Resold Body And Soul Rajedar Menen
reports from Kathmandu and At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 August 2011] Eleven
years ago, in 1982, at the age of 13, Tulasa Thapa was rescued from the brothels of Philippines-Children:
Scourge Of Child Prostitution Sol F. Juvida,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, MANILA, Oct 12, 1997 www.ipsnews.net/1997/10/philippines-children-scourge-of-child-prostitution/ [accessed 7 October 2012] Sharon,
a 13 years-old schoolgirl was forever cutting classes at her village school
and, fearful of her parents wrath, took a bus from her village and headed for
the big city - Manila. She wound up in
Little Girls of the Night Gilberto Dimenstein,
NACLA Report on the nacla.org/article/little-girls-night [accessed 2 March 2015] Twelve girls--among
them, Ana Meire Lima da Silva, age 15, and Miriam
Ferreira dos Children And
Women Trafficking In Prof. Yi Ki Ho ( www.idea.org.np/Children%20&%20Women%20Trafficking.html [accessed 22 August 2011] 13-year-old Mira of
Nepal was offered a job as a domestic worker in Meena was married off at
12. Soon after she was taken to Maya, 10, was taken
to A New Life for a
Child Victim of Prostitution - Rose www.dol.gov/ilab/grants/sga0106/Tanzania-FeatureStory-Wanyenda.htm [accessed 22 August 2011] Only 13 at that
time, she decided to drop out of school and leave home, like many of her
friends before her, to escape difficult living conditions. It happened one
day when she was going to school and met a boy from a nearby village who
persuaded her to escort him to the town where he lived. The boy would bring
home two or three of his friends and force Wanyenda
to sleep with all of them for cash payment. She was tortured, sexually abused
and sometimes beaten by the boy if she refused to provide the services.
Whenever the boy was away, she received customers on her own in order to earn
some money for food. Life became unbearable. After 18 months she decided to
leave. Not knowing where to go, she began wandering the streets. There she
met other girls her age who took her to a brothel. Fighting sexual exploitation and
trafficking in Indonesia UNICEF, At a Glance: www.unicef.org/infobycountry/indonesia_23650.html [accessed 13 February 2011] Yani was 15 when her
boyfriend lured her away from home with false promises of a lucrative job and
a chance to continue her education.
"My pimp stopped giving me money and just supplied me with
drugs," says Dewi. "I got worse and
worse. I lived from hotel room to hotel room, and worked wherever a client
wanted me, here in Children in prostitution, pornography and
illicit activities - Thailand - Magnitude of problems and remedies [PDF] Hervé Berger & Hans
van de Glind, International Labour
Organisation ILO & International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour
IPEC, August 1999 www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---asia/---ro-bangkok/documents/publication/wcms_bk_pb_6_en.pdf [accessed 2 March 2015] A woman approached
a Buddhist monk, and said: "When I was 12, my parents, who were very
poor, sold me to a brothel and I have had to do this work ever since. I must
beg your forgiveness for my sin." The monk replied;
"There is no need to beg forgiveness from me. It is I and the world who
should beg your forgiveness, for we have not done enough to protect you.
Please forgive me and the world for having failed to protect you in the first
place." - Mettanando Bhikkhu, Thai
Buddhist monk Flesh trade of Sumatra Ahmad Sofian, Inside www.insideindonesia.org/feature-editions/flesh-trade-of-sumatra [accessed 2 March 2015] Working in Golden
Million was hell. If anyone made a mistake, Merry's
people kicked them. The lightest punishment was 'charge'. That meant paying a
fine. If we were sick, we had to pay for medicine ourselves. If a girl fell
pregnant, the fine was Rp 500,000 (AU$100). If we
menstruated suddenly while serving a guest, the fine was Rp
75,000. A doctor came to give us an injection each week that cost us Rp 200,000 each time. Golden Million provided a room for
us to take a rest. Our room was for 12 to 15 people. It was very small and
hot. It had no window, and no ventilation. Our meals were supplied by Aunt
Merry. Every meal was crowded and rushed. Every girl owed money to Aunt
Merry. She pretended to be a good woman but she was very bad. She is a devil. Throughout the time
I was at Tanjung Balai Karimun I never sent money to my mother. When she came to
see how I was she had to pawn the tape recorder to our neighbour
to get travel money. As soon as my mother saw my condition she wanted to take
me home to Medan. But Aunt Merry said my contract still had two months to run
and would not let me go. Then my mother went back to Medan without me. Two
months later she came back for me. It was about April last year. I do not
know how or where she got the money for her bus fare. Aunt Merry promised my
mother to cash my vouchers, but she kept delaying, and my mother became
scared that Merry's people would kill us. Testimony of Cherry Kingsley Cherry Kingsley, trafficked in Canada, originally
from Canada; Keynote Address on behalf of the NGO Group for the Convention on
the Rights of the Child before the Second World Congress Against Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children in Yokohama (December 2001) At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 April 2011] Firstly, I would
like to tell you about myself for just a moment. I am a survivor of
Commercial Sexual Exploitation. I grew up in the sex trade in Testimony of Dawn Polaris Project actioncenter.polarisproject.org/the-frontlines/survivor-testimonies/38-testimonies/59-testimony-of-dawn [Last access date unavailable] My mother kicked me
out of my home at the age of 12. I spent the first few weeks couch surfing
and trying to go back home. Often it would last just a few days and then soon
I would be back out. I had to quit school and try to make my way in the world
with no support. I had no place to go and as far as choices I had 2…live on
the streets or die. When I left I went straight to the only place I knew to
go, a local hangout for all various types of problem kids.... I have often heard
men say that I had a choice, and I did, it was either work as a prostitute or
starve to death because it is illegal in Out Of The
Shadows: Child Prostitutes Speak Out Leanne Yohemas-Hayes
and John Chilibeck, Capital News Online, www4.carleton.ca/jmc/cnews/16031998/story2.html [accessed 22 August 2011] She turned her
first trick when she was 13 and worked in a brothel with other girls as young
as 11. They sold their bodies in the
back of a knick-knack shop in Child Prostitution in Victorian Alejandro Levis, 24 November 2000 www.stormloader.com/munaypata/Singapore.htm [Last access date unavailable] TESTIMONY OF JANET
LIM – CIRCA 1920
- Janet Lim, was not sold as a prostitute, but in the early part of the
Twentieth Century she was sold a seven year bonded servant, or mui tsai. She later became an educated writer (Lim,
1958). If not herself a prostitute,
she did witness the trade and gave the following testimony. Maeley and Evetta [access information unavailable] When Maeley was 15 she was manipulated into going to the city to
work in a brothel for her destitute family.
When Evetta was 14, she was forced to work as a housemaid to provide
food and necessities for her family. Approximately a year later she was led
to work in a brothel where she met Maeley. Rescuing
Prostituted Children- A Personal Account by Fr. Shay Cullen Independent Catholic News ICN www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=9910 [accessed 22 August 2011] Within minutes, a
neatly dressed woman approached and offered us two 11 year-old children for
sex. She named her price, one hundred dollars for each child, plus an
additional payment for the brothel operator called the mamasan
where the children were being kept. Sex and the City of Joy Sarah Stuteville,
The Common Language Project, University of Washington, Kolkata, May 8, 2006 clpmag.org/article.php?article=Sex-and-the-City-of-Joy_034 [accessed 29 May 2011] ONE WOMAN’S STORY - At 14, Pandey
was married off to a man 20 years her senior who had designs on inheriting
her ailing father’s government job and a cut of his pension. When another
sister’s husband got the position instead, the abuse began. |