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the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims Non-emergency police 33 14 88 88 Country code: 45- Email: politi@politi.dk Center mod Menneskehandel
(Center against Human Trafficking) ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Prostitution and
its Context in AgeOfConsent.com www.ageofconsent.com/comments/numberfifteen.htm [accessed 14
September 2011] A recent round
table discussion between the police, social workers in contact with the
prostitution milieu, and the social counselors for parents and children in
crisis, concluded that there is no child prostitution involving children
below the age of consent (15 years) in ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Alessia Altumura,
ECPAT International, 2012 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A4A_V2_EU_DENMARK.pdf [accessed 27 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Denmark.
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/denmark/ [accessed 27 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the commercial sexual exploitation of
children and child pornography. Penalties for the distribution of child
pornography include up to a six-year prison sentence. The government
generally enforced these laws. The minimum age for consensual sexual activity
is 15. The purchase of sexual services from a person younger than 18 is
illegal. The law in
Greenland prohibits sexual relations with children younger than 15;
Greenlandic Police determine the penalties for perpetrators. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 8 June 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/denmark2001.html [accessed 1 February
2011] [42] The Committee is
aware of the efforts of the State party to prevent and combat sexual abuse
and exploitation, including the recent establishment of an information
collection system on sexual abuse. The Committee is concerned about the lack
of awareness about child abuse and exploitation and the inadequate efforts to
address child pornography. The Committee also notes the need for training for
professionals working with and for child victims of abuse, including police
officers, lawyers and social workers. Concluding Observations
of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights International
Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 14/12/2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/esc/denmark2004.html [accessed 19
September 2011] [9] The Committee
welcomes the adoption in March 2003 of the law on combating child
pornography, sexual exploitation of children and sale of children, and the
establishment in August 2003 of an action plan on combating sexual abuse of
children. [19] The Committee
notes with concern that, in spite of the measures taken by the State party, The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/denmark.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
- A
recent study undertaken by Save the Children Denmark uncovered two primary
purposes for which children are trafficked to Denmark: for commercial sexual
exploitation and for criminal exploitation, such as pickpocketing and
shoplifting. At least 20 cases of this second form were detected from spring
to December 2003. In that year, police
observed that an increasing number of boys, primarily from Romania, were
being trafficked for criminal exploitation. Many appeared to belong to the
Roma minority. A combination of
trafficking for both purposes can also occur. 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 7 May
2011] [39] In June 2002,
Parliament adopted a bill on new legislation concerning trafficking in human
beings, including children for sexual purposes, in accordance with the EU
Framework Decision on combating trafficking in human beings. The
clients of prostitutes under the age of 18 are criminalized under the
Criminal Code with a maximum term of two years’
imprisonment. Sexual relations with any child (a) under 15; or (b)
under 12, or if coercion or intimidation has been used, is punishable with
imprisonment for a maximum of 6 years or 10 years, respectively. Legislation concerning child pornography
has been amended several times and the bill planned to be put before
Parliament in 2003 is expected to suggest raising the maximum penalty for
distribution and possession of child pornography and broadening the
definition to include material portraying “representations” of child
pornography. An
Important Step in Child Centre for
Children at Risk in the www.childcentre.info/projects/traffickin/denmark/dbaFile12274.html [accessed 7 May
2011] In September 2005
The Danish Government made an appendix to the governmental plan of action to
combat trafficking in women. The appendix includes child trafficking,
primarily children trafficked in preparation for sexual exploitation. Trafficking in
children in Denmark Red Barnet, Save the
Children www.redbarnet.dk/Default.aspx?ID=2209 [Last accessed 1
February 2011] Children are sold
to Trafficking in
Children to Save the Children www.childcentre.info/projects/traffickin/denmark/dbaFile11026.pdf [accessed 1 February
2011] [page 16] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION
- No actual statistics of registered trafficking victims exist in Denmark, or
of trafficking victims of sexual exploitation. There is disagreement as to
the extent to which foreign children suffer commercial sexual exploitation.
Representatives from the Danish National Police force do not feel that the
problem is particularly widespread, as they have no specific knowledge of
trafficking in minors as a problem in Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Baltic Sea Region Comprehensive
report, March 1998 -- Source: The Baltic Sea States Support Group, Prime
Minister's Office S-103 33, Stockholm · Sweden www.sasian.org/legal/baltic/baltic2.htm [accessed 7 May
2011] Statistical data on
the issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children are lacking in every
country in the Baltic Sea Region. DENMARK - It is known to
the Police that occasionally there are prostitutes of the age of 15 or 16 in
the streets in Denmark (Danish National Police). One in 12 children
forced into world's 'worst forms' of labor: UNICEF Agence France-Presse, www.worldrevolution.org/news/article1773.htm [accessed 20 April
2012] UNICEF UNICEF UK lauded the
pledge of developed countries, made more than 30 years ago, of allocating 0.7
percent of gross domestic product to development aid but regretted that only
five countries today fulfill that promise -- Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Sweden. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - DENMARK [PDF] ECPAT 2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-DENMARK.pdf [accessed 7 May
2011] Largely, the
prostitution of young people does not occur within ‘conventional’ settings
more widely used to enable such crimes. Instead, studies appear to indicate
that young persons come into contact with clients
either through friends and acquaintances, through the Internet or through
casual encounters. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61645.htm [accessed 8 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
- The country was both a destination and a transit point for women and
children who were trafficked from the former Soviet Union, All
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