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Draw comparisons between activity in adjacent countries and/or
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resources that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims International Organization for
Migration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** 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
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ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Lina Djellali, ECPAT
International, 2014 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A4A2011_AF_IVORY%20COAST_FINAL.pdf [accessed 26 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in
Côte-d'Ivoire. The report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive
measures, child and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes
recommendations for action against SEC. 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/cote-divoire/ [accessed 25 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The minimum age of consensual sex is 18. The law
prohibits the use, recruitment, or offering of children for commercial sex or
pornographic films, pictures, or events. Violators can receive prison
sentences ranging from five to 20 years and fines of five million to 50
million CFA francs ($8,500 to $85,000). Statutory rape of a minor carries a
punishment of one to three years in prison and a fine of 360,000 to one
million CFA francs ($610 to $1,700). In November 2018
armed gendarmes abducted a 14-year-old girl from an NGO in Abidjan that
shelters child victims of human trafficking and abuse. There was no further
information on the status of the case. The country is a
source, transit, and destination country for children subjected to
trafficking in persons, including sex trafficking. During the year the antitrafficking unit of the National Police investigated
several cases of suspected child sex trafficking. 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 413] Children from Côte
d’Ivoire are subjected to human trafficking for forced labor in domestic work
within the country and North Africa. Children are also brought from
neighboring West African countries to Côte d’Ivoire for commercial sexual
exploitation and forced labor, including in begging, cocoa production, and
artisanal mining. (1,3,10,15,16,22) In 2018, there
were reports of child trafficking from Nigeria to mining regions, especially
in northern Côte d’Ivoire, for commercial sexual exploitation. (21) During the
reporting period, police identified 7 infractions of child labor laws
relating to trafficking and rescued 79 children. The MOJ is examining three
individuals associated with these infractions, which are being heard as cases
of economic and sexual exploitation of children. (7,21)
All 79 children were received by or referred to the child and youth judiciary
protection unit of the court. (7) The Protection
Project - Côte d’Ivoire [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/cote.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
-
Children have been trafficked to ECPAT: Analysis of
CSEC in Seven Countries in West Africa ECPAT International At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 5 May
2011] CONFRONTING THE
PROBLEM
- There is very little awareness on the issue, not only on the part of the
general population, but also on the part of politicians and policy makers.
This is not to say that nothing is being done. On 29th January 1999, for
example, thousands of children took to the streets in one city of Planning
Intervention Strategies for Child Laborers in Creative Associates
International, Inc., Planning Intervention Strategies for Child Laborers in www.beps.net/publications/ECACLcotedivoirePlanning2002.pdf [accessed 30 January
2011] [page 56] 4. PROSTITUTION - Because of the
deterioration of the economic situation of the country, the prevalence of
prostitution among both boys and girls is rapidly increasing. There are some
children who work as street vendors, guards, or domestic workers and engage
in occasional prostitution. The high prevalence of HIV/AIDS in the country is
attributed to sexual promiscuity and the increase in prostitution.
Pedophilia, child sexual exploitation, and rape are also increasing. SOS Violences Sexualles, Ivorian
human rights NGO, states that about 15,000 to 20,000 women and children are
raped every year. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** 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 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61565.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] CHILDREN - Teachers
sometimes gave good grades and money to students in exchange for sexual
favors. The penalty for statutory rape or attempted rape of either a girl or
a boy aged 15 years or younger was a 1- to 3-year prison sentence and a fine
of $190 to $1,900. TRAFFICKING IN
PERSONS
- The regular trafficking of children into the country from neighboring
countries to work in the informal sector in exchange for finder's fees
generally was accepted. Children were trafficked into the country from The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/cote-d'ivoire.htm [accessed 30 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
- UNICEF estimated that 40.3 percent of children ages 5 to 14 years were
working in All
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