C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Antigua & Barbuda.
Some of these links may lead to websites that present allegations that
are unsubstantiated, misleading or even false. No attempt has been made to validate their
authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and how
some succeed in leaving. Perhaps your
paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their leaving. Other factors of interest might be poverty,
rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction, hunger, neglect,
etc. On the other hand, you might
choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who control this
activity. There is a lot to the
subject of Child Prostitution. Scan
other countries as well as this one.
Draw comparisons between activity in adjacent countries and/or
regions. Meanwhile, check out some of
the Term-Paper
resources that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human
Rights Reports » 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 10, 2020 www.state.gov/reports/2019-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/antigua-and-barbuda/ [accessed 23 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - Child pornography is illegal and subject to fines of
up to $500,000 XCD ($185,000) and 20 years in prison. The minimum age for
consensual sex is 16 years. There were anecdotal reports of parents and
caregivers subjecting children to sex trafficking. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 3 November 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/antigua2004.html [accessed 24
February 2011] 64. The Committee
is concerned that the Sexual Offences Act of 1995 does not afford the same
protection to boys as it does to girls. The Committee is also concerned at
the low rate of prosecutions of those who sexually exploit children and that
there is little in the way of public campaigns to educate the population
about the laws governing sexual exploitation. The Committee notes that sexual
exploitation of children should be a particular and growing concern for the
State party, given its heavy reliance on commercial tourism. The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/antigua.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING – Available data
suggest that trafficking occurs primarily for the purpose of prostitution.
Sex tourism is also part of the trafficking infrastructure in Antigua and
Barbuda. There are reports of trafficking
in children for commercial sexual exploitation and pornography. In 2001, the
police arrested and charged four people in connection with an ongoing
investigation into an alleged child prostitution and pornography ring. Girls
as young as 13 were allegedly being sexually exploited. The ring was
discovered after one of the girls was forced to have an abortion. Creating
International Consensus on Combating Trafficking in Persons: Linda Smith and
Mohamed Mattar, The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs
Vol.28:I, Winter 2004 www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/smith_mattar_2004__us_polic.pdf [accessed 19
September 2011] MEASURES NECESSARY
TO PROSECUTE TRAFFICKERS [page 162] ACKNOWLEDGING CHILD
PORNOGRAPHY AS A FORM OF SEXUAL EXPLOITATION - Incidents of pornography,
specifically child pornography, are largely cited in conjunction with
prostitution or under the general guise of sex tourism, and are rarely
addressed as a separate phenomenon in discussions of trafficking. This seems
to arise out of the fact that pornography often accompanies other commercial
sexual exploitation. Pornography is, however, a lucrative industry that has
proliferated widely in some areas, such as countries in Latin America and the
Caribbean, with the aid of the Internet and the growth of sex tourism in the
region. Pornography also represents another layer of exploitation, which
victims trapped in the sex industry are often forced to endure. In many cases,
women and girls are videotaped without their consent and the profits from the
sales of such videotapes are kept entirely by the pimps and brothel owners.
Children as young as 13 years old were found in a pornography and
prostitution ring in ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/wha/119144.htm [accessed 17 March
2020] CHILDREN
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Child abuse remained a problem. The press reported regularly on the rape and
sexual abuse of children. Adult men having regular sexual
relations with young girls was also a problem. According to one
regional human rights group, the girls were often the daughters of single
mothers with whom the perpetrators also had regular sexual relations. All
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