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FEATURED ARTICLE *** (III) Mussie Hadgu
, Asmarino Independent, 16 April 2009 [accessed 12 May 2011] COPING STRATEGIES
THAT ARE COMMON BOTH TO URBAN AND RURAL SETTING AREA 7. Prostitution and
child labour: As the bread winners of the households are absent, families
resort to sending their children to work in different economic activities
such as restaurants, bars, and other activities such as being street vendors.
Some of the underage girls finally end up as sex workers. Many adult women
also resort to the prostitution as a coping strategy. However, as the
government targets and sends the sex workers and children who are street
vendors or street children or any child or adult person out of school to
military training, mere observation of the number of sex workers and of
children engaged in the above mentioned activities does not give the actual
picture of the scale of child labour and prostitution in the country. - sccp ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2006 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/tda/tda2006/eritrea.pdf [accessed 4 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - In Human Rights
Reports » 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/119000.htm [accessed 4 February 2011] CHILDREN
- The
law criminalizes child prostitution, pornography, and sexual exploitation;
however, there were reports that children participated in prostitution. The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/eritrea.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Most reported
cases of trafficking in persons in FACTORS CONTRIBUTING
TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - The 4,200-strong United Nations Mission
to Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), composed of United Nations soldiers and
military observers, has been deployed in the buffer zone between Ethiopia and
Eritrea since the signing of the peace accords in December 2000. The presence of these troops has worried
many Eritreans, who are concerned about the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus.
Their fears were heightened by reports from Cambodia that peacekeepers had
helped spread HIV there. Foreign
soldiers have been accused of purchasing sex from Eritrean children. Worst Forms of Child Labour
Report 2005 - Eritrea Global March Against Child Labour, 2005 beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/eritrea.html [accessed 14 September 2012] CHILD PROSTITUTION AND PORNOGRAPHY GENERAL NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS - In
1999, the Ministry of Labour and Human Welfare carried out a survey on
commercial sex workers in the country. Although the study was on commercial
sex workers in general and not child commercial sex workers in particular,
the results of the survey threw some light on the extent and nature of child
prostitution in the country. The survey revealed that 5% of sex workers
surveyed were children between the ages of 14-17 years. It also indicated
that a majority of the children entered the trade at an early age, with most
of them starting off as street children and bar maids. Reports indicate that
child prostitution is on the increase in the country. (III) Mussie Hadgu
, Asmarino Independent, 16 April 2009 [accessed 12 May 2011] COPING STRATEGIES
THAT ARE COMMON BOTH TO URBAN AND RURAL SETTING AREA 7. Prostitution and
child labour: As the bread winners of the households are absent, families
resort to sending their children to work in different economic activities
such as restaurants, bars, and other activities such as being street vendors.
Some of the underage girls finally end up as sex workers. Many adult women
also resort to the prostitution as a coping strategy. However, as the
government targets and sends the sex workers and children who are street
vendors or street children or any child or adult person out of school to
military training, mere observation of the number of sex workers and of
children engaged in the above mentioned activities does not give the actual
picture of the scale of child labour and prostitution in the country. – sccp All
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