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situation in Eritrea. Some of these
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interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and how
some succeed in leaving. Perhaps your
paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their leaving. Other factors of interest might be poverty,
rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction, hunger, neglect,
etc. On the other hand, you might
choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who control this
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Draw comparisons between activity in adjacent countries and/or
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for Teachers attached to this website. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** (III) Mussie Hadgu
, Asmarino Independent, 16 April 2009 [accessed 12 January
2015] 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 *** 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/eritrea/ [accessed 27 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law criminalizes most commercial sexual
exploitation and practices related to child pornography. The use of a child
for prostitution, however, is not specifically criminally prohibited. The
minimum age for consensual sex is 18. 2018 Findings on the
Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 22 August
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 482] In May 2015, the
government announced that it was considering the establishment of a new
Criminal Code that contains prohibitions on the commercial sexual
exploitation of children. It is not clear whether the 2015 Criminal Code is
fully in effect or remains to be fully implemented. (19,36,37)
Laws regarding the commercial sexual exploitation of children are
insufficient because the use of a child for prostitution is not criminally prohibited.
(38) The Protection
Project - Eritrea [DOC] 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. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights Reports
» 2008 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/af/119000.htm [accessed 8 February
2020] CHILDREN
- The
law criminalizes child prostitution, pornography, and sexual exploitation;
however, there were reports that children participated in prostitution. 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] 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 - In All
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