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by: Muireann O’Briain, Anke van den Borne & Theo Noten, ECPAT Europe Law
Enforcement Group, Programme against Trafficking in Children for Sexual
Purposes in Europe, Amsterdam, 2004 -- ISBN: 90-74270-19-0 www.childcentre.info/projects/traffickin/dbaFile11169.pdf [accessed
6 May 2011] [page 33] A phenomenon
in the Clients get information from the Internet, and from personal contact. Children who are used in prostitution are also used for the making of pornography. Many paedophiles film their sexual intercourse with minors, and then distribute it on the Internet. UNICEF Stirs Controversy With Claims Of
Widespread Child Prostitution At Border Kathleen
Moore, Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1104821.html [accessed
6 May 2011] For 12-year-old Karel, it was poverty that drove him into prostitution. "Before, I used to beg from the Germans in their cars. We have no money at home," he told social workers. "Then I just drove away with them." Karel is just one of a growing number of boys and girls living off prostitution in the Czech-German border area, according to a report released yesterday by the UN International Children's Education Fund (UNICEF) and ECPAT, an international children's rights organization. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status
of action against commercial exploitation of children - CZECH REPUBLIC [PDF] ECPAT
2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-CZECH_REPUBLIC.pdf [accessed
6 May 2011] The prostitution of
children in the However, child sex
tourism (CST) now occurs to a much lesser extent than it did a few years ago.
The situation began to improve after the Czech Republic became a member of
the European Union and law enforcement was considerably strengthened in the
border areas. At present, child sex tourism seems to be more related to the
prostitution of boys, as older men from Scandinavia, Britain, Germany and
Austria are travelling to the Czech Republic with the intention of sexually
exploiting boys in particular. In addition, many young boys travel abroad for
short periods with, among others, tourists from Austria, Germany and Greece.
Very few Czech citizens are involved in CST abroad. UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/crepublic_statistics.html [accessed
6 May 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/czech-republic.htm [accessed 31 January 2011] GOVERNMENT
POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The Government
adopted the National Plan Combating Commercial Sexual Abuse in July 2000, and
the Interior Ministry’s Crime Prevention Division launched a national media
campaign on the dangers of trafficking, and a school-based awareness program
for children aged 13 to 14 years. INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The popular press and government reports indicate
that commercial sexual exploitation, including the involvement of children in
sex tourism, is a problem. There are some reports of internal trafficking of
Czech children from areas of low employment near border regions with Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61644.htm [accessed 31 January 2011] CHILDREN - Children were
engaged in prostitution for survival without third party involvement. NGOs
have reported that many teenage prostitutes were either runaways or products
of orphanages and the foster care system. Some NGOs asserted that orphanages
did not prepare young teens adequately to be self‑sufficient upon
reaching legal adulthood. A special police team was formed in 2004
specifically to deal with the sexual exploitation of children in Cheb, a town on the German border where sex tourism was a
problem. Male adolescents,
some as young as 13 years old, engaged in prostitution for survival. NGOs
that worked with these children attributed the problem to a dysfunctional
foster care system that failed to provide adequate job skills for a modern
economy while preventing unwanted children from being adopted by capable
parents. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
31 January 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/czechrepublic2003.html [accessed 31 January 2011] [60] The Committee
welcomes: (a) The
establishment in spring of 2002 of a trilateral Czech-German-Polish working
group to address, inter alia, trafficking in human beings, in particular the
sexual exploitation of children for prostitution occurring in these areas; (b) The information
contained in the State party’s report (paras. 334
and 335) on social, preventive and re-socialization programs for victims of
sexual exploitation, as well as the adoption in July 2000 of the National
Plan to Fight Commercial Sexual Abuse of Children and amendments to the
Criminal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure made in 2002; (c) The significant
work done by NGOs in this field. Number of abused, prostituting children
growing in Czech Republic Ceske
Noviny, 20.12.2007 www.karlovy-vary-czech-republic.com/article-323772-en.html [accessed
6 May 2011] Since 2004, the
ministry has annually registered more than 1000 cases of abused children, but
these are only reported cases and they should not necessarily reflect the
real state of affairs. According to the
ministry's previous statistics, at least 7500 cases of physical and
psychological abuse as well as sexual exploitation of children were registered
last year, Vanickova said. She said it was impossible to count all the
children who have become victims of commercial sexual exploitation. The squalid truth about call girl lit Danuta Kean, Mail Online, 21 April 2007 www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-449607/The-squalid-truth-girl-lit.html [accessed
6 May 2011] When Aneta was offered a job across the border from her Czech
village, she jumped at the chance. The pretty 17-year-old was to be a nanny
for a rich family. Petr,
the handsome man who recruited her, promised she would travel with them to
London, America even. "You'll get to practise
your English," he joked. The next
day Aneta, along with ten other local girls, met Petr on the edge of their village, handed over their
passports and climbed into a waiting people carrier. It was to be the longest
journey of their lives. Hours later when
the van came to a juddering halt, instead of a family, a group of
rough-looking men were waiting. They
had guns and dogs, which they used to bundle the girls, some as young as 14, out of the van and into a dank cellar where
they ordered them to strip naked and stand in line. The men moved along the line grabbing the
women roughly, inspecting their teeth, their breasts and between their legs.
The girls were crying. "We were
just horseflesh," Aneta recalls. Each was
dragged from the room at gunpoint and gang raped. Within days they were smuggled
across Europe to work in brothels. Joint East West Research on Trafficking in
Children for Sexual Purposes in Edited
by: Muireann O’Briain, Anke van den Borne & Theo Noten,
ECPAT Europe Law Enforcement Group, Programme
against Trafficking in Children for Sexual Purposes in Europe, Amsterdam,
2004 -- ISBN: 90-74270-19-0 www.childcentre.info/projects/traffickin/dbaFile11169.pdf [accessed
6 May 2011] [page 33] A phenomenon in the Clients get
information from the Internet, and from personal contact. Children who are
used in prostitution are also used for the making of pornography. Many paedophiles film their sexual intercourse with minors,
and then distribute it on the Internet. 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 – Report by Special
Rapporteur [DOC] UN
Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session,
6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed
6 May 2011] [37] In July 2002,
amendments were made to the Penal Code to bring Czech law concerning
trafficking of children and child pornography into line with European law and
the OP/SOC, which is expected to be ratified soon. The procurement
of children for prostitution, or the profit from
child prostitution is punishable under the Penal Code, and the phenomenon is
particularly problematic in large urban areas and in the regions bordering Children At Risk Between Eastern And
Western European Borders News item,
03 June 2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 September 2011] A study supported
by UNICEF in the Stolen Youth: Child Prostitution Plagues
German-Czech Border Deutsche Welle
DW-WORLD.DE, 29.10.2003 www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1016270,00.html [accessed 1 April 2011] The children wait
by supermarkets, restaurants and gas stations along the Czech motorways just
across the border from "Young
children less than six years old are offered to the sex tourists by women,
whereas the older ones are usually accompanied by men or male
teenagers," Schauer said. "But
eight-year-olds come along on their own and do their own negotiations about
payment and sexual practices." UNICEF Stirs Controversy With Claims Of
Widespread Child Prostitution At Border Kathleen
Moore, Radio Free Europe/Radio www.rferl.org/content/article/1104821.html [accessed
6 May 2011] For 12-year-old Karel, it was poverty that drove him into
prostitution. "Before, I used to
beg from the Germans in their cars. We
have no money at home," he told social workers. "Then I just drove away with
them." Karel
is just one of a growing number of boys and girls living off prostitution in
the Czech-German border area, according to a report released yesterday by the
UN International Children's Education Fund (UNICEF) and ECPAT, an international
children's rights organization. Child-prostitution claims disputed Andrew Satter,
The At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 14 September 2011] In late October the
German branch of UNICEF released a report by the German social-work agency KARO
asserting that the borderlands are home to widespread pedophilia and child
prostitution. Czech officials said that KARO is home to a self-promoting
writer seeking to exploit the issue for publicity purposes. Tourist Authority, Police Target Sex Tourists Jennifer
Anne Perez for The At
one time this article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible
[here] [accessed
6 May 2011] Months after an
explosive report portrayed Czech border towns as havens for underage sex, the
Czech Tourist Authority (CTA) and police have begun a campaign that puts pay-for-sex
pedophiles on notice and attempts to steer them toward the country's more
wholesome attractions. Czech Challenge to Child Prostitution Ray
Furlong in news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/846226.stm [accessed
6 May 2011] Details have been
emerging of a new plan drawn up by the German campaign against child prostitution
in the Czech Republic Nick
Carey, Radio www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/german-campaign-against-child-prostitution-in-the-czech-republic [accessed
6 May 2011] The German
government has launched a campaign to fight child prostitution in the Up
To Ten Thousand Czech Children Go Missing Every Year Dita Asiedu,
Radio [accessed
6 May 2011] Although most
missing children are found, in the short time they spend out on the streets,
they are at a very high risk of being abused. Most of them are street
children without any money or food and they are prepared to accept any offer
in order to survive even to be in a pornographic video tape or be clients of
pedophiles." Pedophilia in the
Sanchia Berg,
BBC-Radio4-Today, 6 May 2011 www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/archive/international/czech_paedophilia.shtml [accessed
6 May 2011] The town of Cheb in
the Czech Republic is well known as a beautiful place, its old town square full
of pastel-washed houses dating back to the eleventh century. But in recent
years, it's gained a different reputation - as a centre for child
prostitution. Reporters working undercover for the Today program were offered
girls of 9 and 11 for sex when they posed as German tourists. All
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