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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** 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 *** 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] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The commercial exploitation of girls is reportedly increasing in 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 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61635.htm [accessed 19 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – Authorities
reported the country is a source and transit point for women and girls
trafficked primarily for sexual exploitation to the 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 [accessed 30 March 2011] [56] The policy framework for
children in 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 From 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
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