C S E C The Commercial Sexual
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Prostitution Booms
In Anatalón Okué
Oyono, afrol News (African
News Agency), 12 October 2000 www.afrol.com/News/eqg013_prostitution.htm [accessed 11 May
2011] According to the
Equatorial Guinean opposition, the lack of educational infrastructure,
deficiencies in the existing school system and the absence of
an economic future cause youngsters to fall into prostitution, where
money can be made quickly. Furthermore, many of the girls between 15 and 20
pass their exams by giving sexual services or by paying their teachers. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/equatorial-guinea.htm [accessed 3 February
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The ILO estimated that 31.3 percent of children ages
10 to 14 years 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 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61567.htm [accessed 8 February
2020] CHILDREN - Children suffered poor health and had a high mortality rate. The government provided very little health care, but boys and girls have equal access to what was offered. Child abuse is illegal, but the government did not enforce the law effectively. Child abuse occurred. Child prostitution existed but was rare. Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 3 November 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/guinea2004.html [accessed 3 February
2011] [58] The Committee
is concerned at the growing number of child prostitutes in the streets of the
State party’s capital. It is also concerned that the State party’s report
lacks specific data on sexual exploitation and trafficking of children and
information on legislation on sexual exploitation. www.againstsexualexploitation.org/news/?sec=crc-op1&lang=all&nav=&id=2005/06/29/10&iwithSession =fa511d42929534855d2d224e4c1244b4 [access date
unavailable] SEXUAL TRAFFICKING - The Committee
noted that sexual violence and trafficking has been reported in Child Labor
Increasing in Equatorial Guinea afrol News (African News
Agency), 21 November 2000 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 June
2013] The crisis in the
educational sector is said to be the single most important reason behind the
worrying increase of prostitution and alcohol consumption by school age juveniles
in the country. The daily newspaper in an article earlier this year pointed
out that, the youngsters whom they had consulted justified their actions
because there was a lack of necessary economic means to survive. According to
the same newspaper, "sex has turned into the principal trade of the
youth". Report on the human
rights situation in the Republic of Equatorial Guinea submitted by the
Special Representative of the Commission, Mr. Gustavo Gallón,
pursuant to Commission on Human Rights resolution 2001/22 [DOC] UN Economic and
Social Council Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-eighth session, 24 January
2002 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/eb054f2cbdc21564c1256b960051ef68/$FILE/G0210339.doc [accessed 11 May
2011] [79] The Minister
of Health and the Minister of Social Affairs admitted to the Special
Representative that there has a been a marked increase in the presence of
child prostitutes in the streets of the capital as a result of the arrival of
growing numbers of foreigners who work on the drilling platforms. The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/equatorial.doc [accessed 2009] GOVERNMENT RESPONSES
- Prostitution
has been banned on the streets of All
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