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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Watchlist on Children and Armed
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[PDF] Watchlist on Children and
Armed Conflict, Issue 2: Angola, April 25, 2002 www.watchlist.org/reports/pdf/angola.report.pdf [accessed 29 March 2011] [page 12] TRAFFICKING AND EXPLOITATION - Child trafficking, prostitution, pornography, forced labor, sexual slavery and other forms of exploitation are believed to be rampant in Angola, in part due to the war-caused break down of social structures and traditional security mechanisms. ECPAT estimates that 3,000 children under the age of 18 are involved in prostitution for their survival and thousands more are sold for sex on the streets of Luanda. ECPAT also reports that relatives and guardians have allegedly forced minors into prostitution, especially children from rural areas. Some night club owners reportedly allow under-age girls into clubs for sexual exploitation by clients. Cases of sexual exploitation of children by military groups and foreign men in Angola are allegedly on the rise. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/angola.htm [accessed 19 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Many homeless girls are at high risk of sexual and
other forms of violence. Child trafficking, commercial sexual exploitation,
pornography, forced labor, sexual slavery, and other forms of exploitation
are reported. Children have been trafficked internally and also to Human Rights
Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78718.htm [accessed 19 January 2011] CHILDREN
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Child prostitution is illegal; however, there were unconfirmed reports of
child prostitution in Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
November 3, 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/angola2004.html [accessed 19 January 2011] [66] The Committee
is concerned about the extent of the problem of sexual exploitation of and
trafficking in children in the State party and notes that internally
displaced and street children are particularly vulnerable to such abuse. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Jenny Clover, African Security Review Vol 11 No 3, 2002 www.iss.co.za/Pubs/ASR/11No3/Clover.html [accessed 28 March 2011] STREET
CHILDREN
- Separated from their families and unable to rely on kinship networks, they
tend to organize into smaller groups with an older child protecting younger
children, socially isolated in ghettoized buildings. Many are orphaned or
abandoned; some have left starving families or abusive environments. For
children, survival requires washing cars, carrying water, scavenging in
dustbins or prostituting themselves. Watchlist on Children and
Armed Conflict [PDF] Watchlist on Children and
Armed Conflict, Issue 2: www.watchlist.org/reports/pdf/angola.report.pdf [accessed 29 March 2011] [page 12] TRAFFICKING AND EXPLOITATION - Child trafficking, prostitution, pornography, forced labor, sexual slavery and other forms of exploitation are believed to be rampant in Angola, in part due to the war-caused break down of social structures and traditional security mechanisms. ECPAT estimates that 3,000 children under the age of 18 are involved in prostitution for their survival and thousands more are sold for sex on the streets of Luanda. ECPAT also reports that relatives and guardians have allegedly forced minors into prostitution, especially children from rural areas. Some night club owners reportedly allow under-age girls into clubs for sexual exploitation by clients. Cases of sexual exploitation of children by military groups and foreign men in Angola are allegedly on the rise. Child Prostitutes brought to SA Mandy Rossouw, Beeld, www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Child-prostitutes-brought-to-SA-20030219 [accessed 3 August 2011] Child prostitution
is flourishing in Children of
Conflict – Child Workers BBC World Service www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/childrensrights/childrenofconflict/work.shtml [accessed 29 March 2011] PROSTITUTION - Many children have
fled the conflict zones and now live in the coastal cities in overcrowded
slums. In the capital UNICEF: 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#_Toc527979979 [accessed 19 September 2011] 6.14 Commitment: To have in place a National Plan on CSEC by the end of the year 2000. Status of National Plan: Has plan on CSEC
that was adopted in 1998. The plan requires actions to be taken in the
fields of prevention, protection and rehabilitation. All
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