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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Armenia: Child
Prostitution Taboo Sona Meloyan,
iwpr.net/report-news/armenia-child-prostitution-taboo [accessed 30 March
2011] Underage prostitution
is growing as more young people end up on the streets. Few people in
Armenia will admit that child prostitutes exist, let alone talk openly about
it. That is making it harder to address the problem as increasing numbers of vulnerable
young people end up living on the street.
"They never talk about child prostitution. It's a taboo
subject," Mikael Danielian, head of the
Armenian Helsinki Group, told IWPR.
"Neither the police nor the authorities - not even adult
prostitutes - will say anything. They try to stifle the subject, shut it
down. But that does not make it any less of a problem." Two years ago, when Hasmik was begging in a park in the capital Yerevan with her mother and younger brother and sister, three men forced her into their car and raped her. Hasmik's mother chose not to go to the police, fearing that as a beggar, she would only get into more trouble. Instead, she actively encouraged her daughter to become a prostitute. "I share an apartment with my friend, and try to avoid my mother. She's always asking for money," Hasmik said. - sccp ***
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/armenia/ [accessed 23 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the sexual exploitation of children
and provides for prison sentences of seven to 15 years for conviction of
violations. Conviction of child pornography is punishable by imprisonment for
up to seven years. The minimum age for consensual sex is 16. According to NGOs,
although official statistics showed relatively few cases of sexual
exploitation and sale of children, there were numerous undetected and
unreported cases caused by gaps in legislation, training, awareness raising,
detection, and reporting. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/armenia.htm [accessed 19 January
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The commercial exploitation of girls is reportedly
increasing in Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the
Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, January 30, 2004 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/431b11a18a3ec535c1256e2e0044014e?OpenDocument [accessed 19 January
2011] [241] While welcoming
that penalties have been introduced under the Criminal Code for enticing
girls into prostitution and keeping brothels, the Committee reiterates its
concern at the insufficient data on and awareness of the phenomenon of sexual
exploitation of children in Armenia, and at the absence of a comprehensive
and integrated approach to preventing and combating this phenomenon.
Furthermore, the Committee is deeply concerned that persons under 18 years of
age engaged in prostitution are prosecuted under the Criminal Code, rather
than assisted as victims. 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 – Report submitted by Special Rapporteur [DOC] U.N. Economic and
Social Council, Commission on Human Rights, Sixtieth session, 5 January 2004 www.unhchr.ch/huridocda/huridoca.nsf/0/1384BB1D9B0173CDC1256E3C0036210F/$File/G0410040.doc?OpenElement [accessed 30 March
2011] [56] The policy
framework for children in From Stockholm to Yokohama:
The Global Partnership to Combat CSEC [DOC] ECPAT International,
Agenda For Action Report, 2002 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/2002_agenda_for_action_report_ecpat.doc [accessed 30 March
2011] MONITORING
-- WHAT MEASURES HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO PREVENT CHILD SEX TOURISM IN AND FROM THE
COUNTRY?
- In ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61635.htm [accessed 4 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Authorities reported the country is a source and transit point for women and
girls trafficked primarily for sexual exploitation to the All
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