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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Agence France-Presse AFP, [accessed 29 April 2011] Two teachers who sold out pupils as young as 11-years-old to men seeking virgins for sex have been sentenced to death for running a child prostitution ring, Chinese press reports said Wednesday. The teachers, who were married, worked in southern Guizhou province and most of the 23 girls forced into sex slavery were students from the schools where they taught, the China Daily said. Six of the girls were aged under 14, according to the Shanghai Daily, which said that the victims supposedly being "virgins" was a main selling point. Other press reports said all the girls were aged from 11 to 17. Worst Forms of Child Labour
Report 2005 - China Global March Against Child Labour, 2005 beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/china.html [accessed 12 September 2012] CHILD
PROSTITUTION & PRONOGRAPHY - According to expert estimates, there
were 1.7million to 5 million sex workers in China. According to Xinhua news
agency, one in five massage parlours
was involved in prostitution. New weapons against child trafficking in
Asia International Labour Organisation ILO,
WORLD OF WORK, No. 19, March 1997 www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/magazine/19/child.htm [accessed 29 January 2011] Commercial sexual
exploitation of children has become an issue of global concern, and appears
to be on the rise. Children are increasingly being bought and sold across
national borders by organized networks for work in sweatshops and brothels.
The ILO has launched a new programme to eliminate
the practice. In Asia,
trafficking in children both between and within various countries is on the
increase. In recent years, large numbers of children from Cambodia, China, Laos and Myanmar have been
forced to work as prostitutes in Thailand. Both girls and boys from poor
rural areas are lured by professional recruiters and traffickers with
promises of legitimate jobs in Thailand's booming economy. The trafficking
routes are well known, but are difficult to close down. Girls from Myanmar
are brought into Thailand through various border checkpoints. In Cambodia,
they arrive via several transit points into Thailand. Girls from south China enter by way of ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61605.htm [accessed 29 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– There were reports that women and girls from Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30 September 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/china2005b.html [accessed 29 January 2011] DATA COLLECTION - The Committee regrets the limited
statistical data on sexual exploitation and cross-border trafficking included
in the State party’s report, both with regard to mainland [C.6] INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION - The
Committee notes with appreciation the increased regional cooperation between
the State party and neighboring countries, such as Child prostitution boss faces death Cui Jia and www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-05/18/content_7785416.htm [accessed 29 April 2011] The suspected lynchpin
behind a child rape scandal in Agence France-Presse AFP, [accessed 29 April 2011] Two teachers who
sold out pupils as young as 11-years-old to men seeking virgins for sex have
been sentenced to death for running a child prostitution ring, Chinese press
reports said Wednesday. The teachers,
who were married, worked in southern Guizhou
province and most of the 23 girls forced into sex slavery were students from
the schools where they taught, the China Daily said. Six of the girls were aged under 14,
according to the Shanghai Daily, which said that the victims supposedly being
"virgins" was a main selling point.
Other press reports said all the girls were aged from 11 to 17. Reuters, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 29 April 2011] A similar case was
reported earlier this month in Guizhou, the
newspaper reported. Two teachers forced at least 18 children aged between 13
and 17 into prostitution. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Worst Forms of Child Labour
Report 2005 - China Global March Against Child Labour, 2005 beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/china.html [accessed 12 September 2012] CHILD
PROSTITUTION & PRONOGRAPHY - According to expert estimates, there
were 1.7million to 5 million sex workers in China. According to Xinhua news
agency, one in five massage parlours
was involved in prostitution. Youth Peer Education Program on Life Skills,
Reproductive Health, STIs, and HIV/AIDS ASIA-PACIFIC ANSWERS: Good practices in
combating commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth. UNESCAP 2001 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 29 April 2011] The target
population of the youth peer education program in The United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF,
Report Of The East Asia And The Pacific Regional Consultation For The Second
World Congress Against Commercial Sexual Exploitation Of Children, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/bangkok-final-report.html [accessed 29 April 2011] [12] The
representative of the Government of China expressed her Government’s
appreciation of ECPAT’s contributions to addressing the CSEC issue, and of
the ECPAT presentation. It indicated that it would strengthen its
collaboration with ECPAT, ESCAP and UNICEF on this issue, including through
the sharing of information. The ILO International Labour Organisation ILO,
RO-Bangkok, Preventing Human Trafficking in the GMS, 24.10.2008 www.ilo.org/public/english/region/asro/bangkok/child/trafficking/faqs.htm#faq17 [accessed 29 April 2011] [17] WHAT HAS THIS PROJECT ACHIEVED? - In 2004, in China and Lao PDR, the Governments have replicated the project’s practices in other provinces. OUR MISSION
STATEMENT
- Our mission is to help eliminate the sexual and labour exploitation of
children and women in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region by reducing their
vulnerability, and preventing their exposure, to human traffickers and exploitative
employers. People Trafficking and Child Exploitation:
Australia's Aid Program Response Australian Government AusAID,
April 2007 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 29 April 2011] THE
AUSTRALIA-CHINA HUMAN RIGHTS TECHNICAL COOPERATION PROGRAM (HRTC) - Since 1997, New weapons against child trafficking in
Asia International Labour Organisation ILO,
WORLD OF WORK, No. 19, March 1997 www.ilo.org/public/english/bureau/inf/magazine/19/child.htm [accessed 29 January 2011] Commercial sexual
exploitation of children has become an issue of global concern, and appears
to be on the rise. Children are increasingly being bought and sold across
national borders by organized networks for work in sweatshops and brothels.
The ILO has launched a new programme to eliminate
the practice. In Asia, trafficking
in children both between and within various countries is on the increase. In
recent years, large numbers of children from Cambodia, China, Laos and Myanmar have been forced to work as prostitutes
in Thailand. Both girls and boys from poor rural areas are lured by
professional recruiters and traffickers with promises of legitimate jobs in
Thailand's booming economy. The trafficking routes are well known, but are
difficult to close down. Girls from Myanmar are brought into Thailand through
various border checkpoints. In Cambodia, they arrive via several transit
points into Thailand. Girls from south
China enter by way of All material
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