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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Gender Profile of the Conflict in UN Development Fund for Women UNIFEM www.humansecuritygateway.com/documents/UNIFEM_burundigenderprofile.doc [accessed 13 April 2011] THE IMPACT OF THE CONFLICT ON
BURUNDIAN WOMEN - The Special Rapporteur
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ARCHIVES *** UNICEF - www.unicef.org/infobycountry/burundi_2774.html [accessed 13 April 2011] BACKGROUND - Rape, child prostitution and
exploitative child labor remain all too common. An estimated 7,000 children
have been used as soldiers. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/burundi.htm [accessed 25 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Child prostitution is also a problem. There are reports that child
trafficking occurs both within Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61557.htm [accessed 25 January 2011] WOMEN - The law prohibits prostitution;
however, it was a problem. There were reports that soldiers and rebels sexually exploited women and young
girls residing near military installations and rebel camps. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 October 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/burundi2000.html [accessed 25 January 2011] [75] The Committee is concerned
that children have been the victims of sexual exploitation, sometimes by
those persons who are responsible for their care. [76] The Committee recommends that
the State party make every effort to end and prevent the sexual exploitation
or abuse of children, giving particular attention to children living in
camps. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/burundi.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Women and girls are trafficked
to European cities and to 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 – Analysis of the Situation of
Sexual Exploitation of Children, East & South Africa Region UNICEF: Second World Congress Against Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children - DRAFT Consultancy Report Prepared as a component
of the UNICEF – ESARO & ANPPCAN
Partnership Project on Sexual Exploitation and Children’s Rights, October,
2001, Nairobi, Kenya www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/csec-east-southern-africa-draft.html#_Toc527979960 [accessed 13 April 2011] 3.1 MAGNITUDE AND LINK BETWEEN HIV/AIDS
AND CSEC - MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM – There is little quantifiable data on CSEC in the
region. However, there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that sexual
exploitation and abuse (including commercial sexual exploitation of children)
is a massive problem. Indeed, there is a clear indication that sexual abuse
and exploitation of children within the home, school and workplace is
widespread in the region. Such children are more likely to end up in
commercial sex work (Kaponda, 2000). In Burundi, the government admits that as a result of poverty, children frequently abandon their families at an early age to look for a job, which may be in prostitution. Gender Profile of the Conflict in UN Development Fund for Women UNIFEM www.humansecuritygateway.com/documents/UNIFEM_burundigenderprofile.doc [accessed 13 April 2011] THE IMPACT OF THE CONFLICT ON
BURUNDIAN WOMEN - The Special Rapporteur
on Human Rights in Watchlist Country Report on Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict www.watchlist.org/reports/files/burundi.report.php [accessed 13 April 2011] EDUCATION - In interviews with the Women’s
Commission for Refugee Women and Children in 2000, Burundian women expressed
concern about children and adolescents’ lack of access to school. They
reiterated the needs to raise levels of school attendance and literacy, and
again offer children and adolescents alternatives to violence and
prostitution. Since 2000, the access to education has further deteriorated
due to insecurity. Unconfirmed reports indicate that state funding for
educational and other social programs is unevenly allocated around the
country in favor of the Tutsi population, thereby limiting access to
secondary school and university and professional opportunities for certain
groups. Human Rights Overview – Human Rights Watch, World Report 2005, Jan 12, 2005 www.hrw.org/legacy/english/docs/2005/01/13/burund9861.htm [accessed 13 April 2011] JUSTICE - Despite frequent calls for
justice, both national and international actors appear driven more by
expediency than real concern for accountability. The late 2003 agreement
between the government and the FDD, generally supported by the international
community, granted “provisional immunity” to all combatants and leaders of
both forces, meaning that justice for their crimes would be at least
postponed and probably never delivered. All material used herein
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