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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Gender Profile of the Conflict in Burundi [PDF] UN Development Fund
for Women UNIFEM library.nust.ac.zw/gsdl/collect/genderis/import/Gender%20profile%20of%20the%20conflict%20in%20Burundi.pdf [accessed 12
Aug 2013] THE IMPACT OF THE
CONFLICT ON BURUNDIAN WOMEN - The Special Rapporteur
on Human Rights in ***
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/burundi/ [accessed 23 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The minimum age for consensual sex is 18. The penalty
for conviction of commercial sexual exploitation of children is 10 to 15
years in prison and a fine of between 500,000 and two million Burundian
francs ($270 and $1,080). The penalties for conviction of child pornography
are fines and three to five years in prison. There were no prosecutions
during the year. Women and girls
were smuggled to other countries in Africa and the Middle East, sometimes
using falsified documents, putting them at high risk of exploitation. 2018 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 22 August
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 278] Burundi is one of
the poorest countries in the world, with more than 90 percent of its citizens
engaged in subsistence agriculture, and approximately 80 percent of the
workforce employed in the informal economy. (2,16,17)
Burundian children are trafficked within the country, often from rural areas,
for domestic work and commercial sexual exploitation. (6,15,16)
Women who offer room and board to children sometimes force the children into
commercial sexual exploitation to pay expenses. (15,18)
Burundian girls are also trafficked internationally for commercial sexual
exploitation in Kenya, the Middle East, Rwanda, and Uganda. (11,15,19) 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. 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. Watchlist Country Report on
Burundi Watchlist on Children and
Armed Conflict www.watchlist.org/reports/files/burundi.report.php [accessed 12
September 2012] 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. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61557.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] 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. 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] 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 - Child prostitution is also a problem. There are
reports that child trafficking occurs both within All
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