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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
-- WHAT MEASURES HAVE BEEN TAKEN TO PREVENT CHILD SEX TOURISM IN AND FROM THE
COUNTRY?
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