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situation in ***
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 *** UNICEF
- www.unicef.org/infobycountry/cotedivoire.html [accessed 5 May 2011] 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] INCIDENCE AND NATURE
OF CHILD LABOR
- UNICEF estimated that 40.3 percent of children ages 5 to 14 years were
working 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/2005/61565.htm [accessed 30 January 2011] 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 Protection Project - Côte The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/cote.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
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Children have been trafficked to 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
– ECPAT: Analysis of CSEC in Seven Countries
in ECPAT International At one time this article had been archived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. All
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