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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] 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 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61567.htm [accessed 3 February 2011] 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 afrol News (African News Agency), 21
November 2000 www.afrol.com/News/eqg023_child_labour.htm [accessed 3 February 2011] 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". 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. 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
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