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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Sexual exploitation of minors taints Vanessa Arrington, Associated Press AP Worldstream, www.childtrafficking.org/pdf/user/colombia_11_11.doc [accessed 2 May 2011] The city has become a magnet for men, many of them Europeans, seeking sex with young girls and sometimes boys, many of them from families displaced from their rural homes by fighting among leftist rebels, government forces and right-wing paramilitary groups. An estimated 1,500 girls and boys work in Cartagena's sex industry. Over the last three years, Renacer has learned of girls as young as 7 and boys as young as 9 being sexually exploited, Cardenas says. "The kids are on the street because of desperation," says Bruce Harris, the former Latin America director of Casa Alianza, a children's rights group. "The last thing they have to sell is themselves. This is mixed with the fact that the laws for the most part are still very weak, and there's corruption in the application of the law." Bolivar Province's police chief, Col. Jesus Gomez, who oversees Cartagena, says detectives are investigating criminal sex rings in the city, but have yet to make any arrests. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/colombia.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children are involved in commercial sexual
exploitation 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/2005/61721.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] SECTION 6 WORKER
RIGHTS
– [d] Although there were no reports of forced child labor in the formal
economy, several thousand children were forced to serve as paramilitary or
guerrilla combatants, prostitutes,
or coca pickers. 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/colombia2000.html [accessed 30 January 2011] [67] While noting
with appreciation the revisions to the State party's Penal Code and the
establishment of a national plan of action to combat and prevent the sexual
exploitation of children, the Committee remains concerned at the insufficient
awareness among the population of these issues. 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 – COLOMBIA – The National Plan of Action against the Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children in Colombia (Plan de Acción
en favor de los Derechos de la Infancia
Explotada Sexualmente y
contra la Explotación Sexual Infantil)
is not being implemented. According to the ICBF, which had main
responsibility for the plan, it has been developed in an isolated manner and
according to the competencies of each institution involved. As a consequence, the ICBF says it has not
been possible to measure its impact. The Inter-institutional Committee to
fight the trafficking of women, girls and boys is putting into practice a
plan for the prevention and protection of victims and to stop the trafficking
of persons. Combating Child Prostitution in Garry Leech, Colombia Journal, April 29,
2002 -- Origininal Source: Colombia Report, an online
journal published by the Information Network of the Americas INOTA colombiajournal.org/combating-child-prostitution-in-colombia.htm [accessed 2 May 2011] Many parents send
their children out into the streets to help support the family by stealing,
selling chewing gum and cigarettes, or worse, selling themselves. It is estimated that there are 35,000
children working as prostitutes in Soaring Child
Prostitution In BBC News World Service, 27 January, 2001 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1138712.stm [accessed 2 May 2011] Clients were often
middle-aged foreigners who paid the child-prostitutes around six US dollars.
Victims were often addicted to drugs and were as young as nine years old. BBC News, 13 December, 2001 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1708260.stm [accessed 2 May 2011] The mayor of Bogata has imposed a nighttime curfew on minors to clamp
down on child prostitution and reduce crime rates in the Colombian
capital. Children under the age of 16
on the streets after 11pm will be arrested. Government Is
Combatting the Culture of Violence in Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC),
25th session, Press Release, 27 September 2000 www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/0/6469234DEE795835C12569680026170F?opendocument [accessed 2 May 2011] The culture of
violence which prevailed in Ashoka Fellow Profile -
Stella Cárdenas Ovalle This profile was prepared when Stella Cárdenas
Ovalle was elected to the Ashoka
Fellowship in 2001 [accessed 2 May 2011] THE PROBLEM- A series of
factors put children at risk for sexual exploitation in Reuters, 26 September 1998 www.latinamericanstudies.org/colombia/prostitution.htm [accessed 2 May 2011] Twenty-nine adults
were arrested in the swoop and Sexual exploitation of minors taints Vanessa Arrington, Associated Press AP Worldstream, www.childtrafficking.org/pdf/user/colombia_11_11.doc [accessed 2 May 2011] The city has become
a magnet for men, many of them Europeans, seeking sex with young girls and
sometimes boys, many of them from families displaced from their rural homes
by fighting among leftist rebels, government forces and right-wing
paramilitary groups. An estimated 1,500
girls and boys work in Cartagena's sex industry. Over the last three years, Renacer has learned of girls as young as 7 and boys as
young as 9 being sexually exploited, Cardenas says. "The kids are
on the street because of desperation," says Bruce Harris, the former
Latin America director of Casa Alianza, a
children's rights group. "The last thing they have to sell is
themselves. This is mixed with the fact that the laws for the most part are
still very weak, and there's corruption in the application of the
law." Bolivar Province's police
chief, Col. Jesus Gomez, who oversees Cartagena, says detectives are
investigating criminal sex rings in the city, but have yet to make any
arrests. The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/colombia.doc [accessed 2009] GOVERNMENT RESPONSES - The Ombudsman’s Office and the Attorney General’s Office conducted a study on the prostitution of women and children. The National Police of Colombia runs a prevention program called Colombia without Prostitution. This program is designed to prevent child prostitution through educational activities for families and the community. In collaboration with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the government also created a Plan of Action on Child Sexual Abuse. All
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