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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/djibouti.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Displaced women
and children fleeing conflict between Child prostitution is on the rise in Djibouti. A government study, conducted in conjunction with UNICEF, found that 73.3 percent of street children were Ethiopian and that over a quarter of these children were exploited in the commercial sex industry. Most are girls from the Dire-Dawa region of Ethiopia. They are often brought by other girls to brothels, where they are forced into prostitution. In Djibouti’s most famous sex venue, Rue d’Ethiopie, children age 11 to 16 are forced to engage in prostitution. - htsccp ***
ARCHIVES *** UNICEF
– www.unicef.org/infobycountry/djibouti.html [accessed 8 May 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/djibouti.htm [accessed 1 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In urban areas, children often work in the informal
sector in small-scale family businesses, trade, catering, crafts, or as
domestic servants. Children displaced from Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61566.htm [accessed 1 February 2011] CHILDREN – Child
prostitution existed. Some children that immigrated to the country for
economic reasons engaged in prostitution to survive. There was no known
system of organized pimps who exploited children; however, older children
sometimes acted as "protectors" and took a portion of other
children's earnings as a fee." Concluding Observations Of The Committee On
The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 2
June 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/djibouti2000.html [accessed 27 February 2011] [45] The Committee
is concerned about the exposure of older children in the State party,
particularly those living on the street or working in port areas and along
truck routes, to sexual exploitation and to sexually transmitted diseases,
including the risk of HIV infection. The Committee is also concerned that
girls married at a young age may not have sufficient access to family
planning services and counseling. [57] The Committee
is concerned about the high and apparently increasing incidence of
prostitution involving children, in particular girls, and about the lack of
facilities to provide services to sexually exploited children. [58] In the light
of article 34 and other related articles of the Convention, the Committee
recommends that the State party undertake studies with a view to designing
and implementing appropriate policies and measures, including to promote the
physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of child victims
of sexual exploitation, and to preventing and combating the sexual
exploitation of children while avoiding the criminalization of child victims.
In this regard, the Committee encourages the State party to take into account
the recommendations formulated in the Agenda for Action adopted at the World
Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, held in Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/djibouti.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Displaced women
and children fleeing conflict between Child prostitution
is on the rise in Djibouti. A government study, conducted in conjunction with
UNICEF, found that 73.3 percent of street children were Ethiopian and that
over a quarter of these children were exploited in the commercial sex
industry. Most are girls from the Dire-Dawa region
of Ethiopia. They are often brought by other girls to brothels, where they
are forced into prostitution. In Djibouti’s most famous sex venue, Rue d’Ethiopie, children age 11 to 16 are forced to engage in
prostitution. - htsccp Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children - Middle East/ UNICEF: www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 8 May 2011] These countries
also have in common, however, a number of constraints that have hindered
preparation of national plans of action. In all the countries of the region,
there is cultural resistance to addressing the problem because the subject is
largely taboo. Five Years After ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 8 May 2011] [page 45] United
Nations Population Fund Country Program Outline For Executive Board of the United Nations
Development Programme and of the United Nations
Population Fund, 30 September 2002 -- DP/FPA/DJI/2 www.unfpa.org/exbrd/2002/final/dpfpadji2.pdf [accessed 8 May 2011] 12. Drought,
poverty and frequent conflicts in the region encourage urban migration. Overburdened urban areas are home to
growing numbers of street children.
The pervasive poverty contributes to the number of commercial sex
workers, as does the presence of many soldiers, dockworkers and truck drivers
travelling the Djibouti-Addis Ababa highway. Awareness of the risks of
unprotected sex is low. All
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