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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Prostitution Decreasing in Balkan Investigative Reporting Network BIRN, 08 06 2007 [accessed 10 April 2011] The decrease in child prostitution was confirmed by the 2006 US Department of State Report on Human Rights Practises in Bulgaria, which stated that "the Ministry of Interior identified 255 children as 'at risk' of being forced into prostitution between January and October, compared to 398 in 2005." While child prostitution is on the decrease, a hurdle in the fight against it seems to be a lack of a legal framework. The Bulgarian judiciary does not offer a definition of child prostitution and does not define prostitution in general as a crime, Petkov pointed out. Mentioning the strict laws against
kidnapping for prostitution purposes that are currently in place, Petkov added "Bulgaria is not considered a
destination for so-called 'child sex tourism'." ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - BULGARIA [PDF] ECPAT 2005 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-BULGARIA.pdf [accessed 10 April 2011] There is no organised
child sex tourism in The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/bulgaria.htm [accessed 24 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are involved in the distribution of drugs and in
prostitution, sometimes working with organized crime rings. Many victims of child
prostitution are ethnic Roma children. Human Rights Reports » 2005 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61641.htm [accessed 24 January 2011] CHILDREN – The MOI identified 398 children
as "at risk" of being forced into prostitution during the first
nine months of the year, compared to 510 in 2004. Child prostitution
reportedly was particularly common among Romani
girls; there were no known cases of boys engaged in prostitution In December 2004 the SACP reported
that 625 children were known to be either living or working on the streets
and were primarily involved in begging, prostitution, or car window washing. Concluding Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of
The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7 and 8 January
1997 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/bulgaria1997.html [accessed 24 January 2011] [14] The Committee is also
concerned by the reported ill-treatment of children in the family and in
institutions and the lack of adequate measures for the psycho-social recovery
from such abuses. Cases of ill-treatment of children by law enforcement personnel
in or outside detention centers are also a very grave matter of concern, even
if they are isolated cases. Furthermore, the Committee is concerned by the
recent rise in child prostitution and the production and dissemination of
pornographic materials involving children. In this regard, the fact that no
specific and appropriate legislation and programs exist to prevent and combat
sexual abuse and exploitation is a serious concern to the Committee. READING ROOM: Libby Gomersall, The Sofia Echo,
Aug 13 2007 sofiaecho.com/2007/08/13/655260_reading-room-bulgarias-working-girls [accessed 24 January 2011] In All of the girls I have seen
soliciting are over the age of consent, which is 14 in Bulgaria, most are in
their late teens and early 20s. Many are exceptionally attractive making you
double take as to whether they are actually “on the game” or just innocently
waiting for a lift. All of the girls I spoke to were extremely friendly. “We
work out of need,” 19-year-old Sonia recounts. “I can earn more money doing
this work than working a 13-hour shift in a bar in the resorts. It is just
work for me. I don’t really think about what I do.” Child Prostitution Decreasing in Balkan Investigative Reporting Network BIRN, 08 06 2007 [accessed 10 April 2011] The decrease in child prostitution
was confirmed by the 2006 US Department of State Report on Human Rights Practises in Bulgaria, which stated that "the
Ministry of Interior identified 255 children as 'at risk' of being forced
into prostitution between January and October, compared to 398 in 2005." While child prostitution is on the
decrease, a hurdle in the fight against it seems to be a lack of a legal
framework. The Bulgarian judiciary does not offer a definition of child
prostitution and does not define prostitution in general as a crime, Petkov pointed out. Mentioning the strict laws against
kidnapping for prostitution purposes that are currently in place, Petkov added "Bulgaria is not considered a destination
for so-called 'child sex tourism'." The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/bulgaria.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - According to a recent study,
among identified female victims of trafficking in Women are lured into the industry
through false job advertisements offering jobs as models, dancers, and au
pairs. Many of the girls recruited are orphans or come from disadvantaged
families, making them more vulnerable to the promises of traffickers offering
them work abroad. Teenage girls are
often kidnapped and, among the Roma minority, frequently sold to traffickers
by their families. - htcp 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 – Child Prostitution Flourish in Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency), March 5, 2007 www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=77482 [accessed 10 April 2011] Child prostitution in Sex tourism is mostly growing in
countries where a sudden boom took place in the tourist sector, not leaving
the state enough time to take measures against child exploitation. Country Information Terre des Hommes via its
Internet platform against sexual exploitation of children in tourism www.child-hood.com +www.child-hood.com/index.php?id=731&type=6&type=6 [accessed 10 April 2011] DESTINATION COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF
CHILDREN IN TOURISM -
Combating Human Trafficking - Basic Education and Policy Support Activity BEPS www.beps.net/child_labor/bulgaria.htm [accessed 10 April 2011] [photo caption] A common sight in DEAR PASSENGERS - THE DRIVER OFFERS YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL ELITE GIRLS FOR YOUR PLEASURE Svetlana’s Journey Director: Michael
Cory Davis, Screenplay: Michael Cory
Davis, Bulgaria, 2004 -- 40 min, color www.cinema.bg/sff/2005/eng/movie.php?movieSid=334 [accessed 10 April 2011] Svetlana’s journey is a story about “Stolen
Innocence”. The story is a gruesome retelling through recollections of a 13
yr. old girl after escaping the prison where she was held captive by pimps. After losing her mother, and
having no other family Svetlana was forced to live in an orphanage. She was
adopted by a family who’s sole purpose was to acquire her … she was tortured,
manipulated, and abused by the “pimp couple”, so that she became a shell of a
body, used 15 times a day by various gentleman buyers. A 13-year-old girl Was Adopted In Order To Be Sold to
Pimps Daily "Sega", 6/14/04 www.michaelcorydavis.com/SvetlanasJourney/svetlanas_journey_media.html [accessed 10 April 2011] [scroll down] Svetlana is one of all girls in
the orphanages in the country. She was abandoned by her mother when she was
very little. Last year – when she was 13, she thought it was the happiest
moment in her life – a family wanted to adopt her ... Neglected Children Society (SNC) UN Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute - IRISEM
- Organizations against Trafficking and CSEC www.unicri.it/emerging_crimes/human_trafficking/irisem/irisem.php?page_=6 [accessed 10 April 2011] [scroll down to … NEGLECTED CHILDREN SOCIETY (SNC) ] The aims of NCS
include: Prevention of violence
against children, child abuse, child neglect, child prostitution and child
sexual trafficking; Supporting children at
social and criminal risk and Re-integration of
abused, neglected children and victims of commercial sexual exploitation of
children. Miss Humanity Velina Nacheva,
The Sofia Echo, Jan 15 2004 sofiaecho.com/2004/01/15/631113_miss-humanity [accessed 24 January 2011] "Magi" Vulchanova, Goodwill Ambassador and Face to Face
Spokesperson, has a unique mission in life, which she took on after being
crowned Miss Bulgaria 2000. Magi spends most of her time in Trafficking in Children for Sexual Purposes ECPAT International Newsletters, Issue No : 33 1/December/2000 www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/IRC/articles.asp?articleID=40&NewsID=12 At one time this article had been archived and may
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