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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. 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 Report on the
scale, scope and context of the sexual exploitation of children [PDF] Sanchia Thimanna,
ECPAT International, January 2019 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ECPAT-Country-Overview-Czechia-Czech-Republic-2019.pdf [accessed 25 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in
Cambodia. The overview gathers existing publicly available information on
sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child
sexual exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes,
sexual exploitation of children through prostitution, child early and forced
marriage (CEFM) and identifies gaps, research needs, and recommendations. 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/czech-republic/ [accessed 25 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits commercial sexual exploitation of
children and the possession, manufacture, and distribution of child
pornography, which is punishable by imprisonment for up to eight years. The
minimum age for consensual sex is 15. Sexual relations with a child younger
than 15 is punishable by a prison term of up to eight years, or more in the
presence of aggravating circumstances. The law prohibits all forms of
trafficking and prescribes punishments of two to 10 years in prison for
violations, with longer sentences in the presence of aggravating
circumstances. These laws were generally enforced. 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. Five Years After
Stockholm [PDF] 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." 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. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** 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. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61644.htm [accessed 7 February
2020] 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. 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] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor 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 All
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