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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Prostitution - in Nasir Al-Amin, October
01, 2006 ovcs.blogspot.com/2006/10/child-prostitution-in-addis-ababa.html [accessed 12 May 2011] KEY FINDINGS OF THE
STUDY
- This study has identified types of child prostitution: working on the
streets; working in small bars; working in local arki
or alcohol houses; working in rented houses/beds and; working in rent places
for chat/drugs use. Each location exposes the children to different risks and
hazards. In terms of
background, all the interviewed children
engaged in prostitution were girls, aged between 13 to 18 years. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the
status of action against commercial exploitation of children - ETHIOPIA [PDF] ECPAT 2007 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/AF/Global_Monitoring_Report-ETHIOPIA.pdf [accessed 12 May 2011] Child prostitution
is growing in both urban and rural areas of The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/ethiopia.htm [accessed 4 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - According to reports, the commercial sexual
exploitation of children is increasing in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61569.htm [accessed 4 February 2011] CHILDREN - According to
international NGOs, child prostitution was a growing problem, particularly in
urban areas. According to an NGO report, 60 percent of persons exploited in
prostitution were between the ages of 16 and 25. Underage girls worked as
hotel workers, barmaids, and prostitutes in resort towns and rural truck
stops. Pervasive poverty, migration to urban centers, early marriage,
HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, and limited educational and job
opportunities aggravated the sexual exploitation of children. TRAFFICKING IN
PERSONS
- NGOs reported that houses of prostitution recruited impoverished girls as
young as age 11 and kept them uninformed of the risks of HIV/AIDS infection
and other sexually transmitted diseases. A 2003 Family Health International
Report indicated that customers particularly sought younger girls because
customers believed they were free of sexually transmitted diseases. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC)[DOC] UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1
November 2006 [accessed 4 February 2011] [73] The Committee
welcomes the initiatives by the State party to combat sexual exploitation of
children, including provisions for stricter penalties in the revised Criminal
Code and the establishment of a national plan of action against sexual
exploitation of children.
Nevertheless, the Committee is concerned that a high number,
especially girls, are victims of sexual exploitation and sexual abuse, and
that the majority of cases remain in impunity. Furthermore, the Committee is deeply
concerned at the lack of information in the State party report on the extent
of the problem and the number of children affected. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
26 January 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/ethiopia2001.html [accessed 4 February 2011] [72] The Committee
is deeply concerned at reports of sexual exploitation, prostitution, rape and
other sexual abuse of children. Child Prostitution in www.childexploitation.org/prostitution3.html [Last access date unavailable] "I've been
working on the street for 3 years because I had a conflict with my parents.
My stepfather used to get drunk and beat us. Also, he used to favour my sister who is his real daughter. I met some
girls on the street and I began to get close with them. I became friends with
them, and we're still friends. Two of the older girls used to work and give
us the money to live. All I used to think about was my family, but these
people were good to me so I followed them. I was really hurt by my family
experience and these people were nice to me. UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=44932 [accessed 12 May 2011] The children often
blamed lack of work, family deaths, poor education or unwanted pregnancy for
driving them towards prostitution.
Many of the child prostitutes had been victims of serious sexual and
physical abuse. Almost half the children said they had been raped prior to
ending up on the streets and a third had fallen pregnant – with some
resorting to back street abortions.
“The abortions were performed mainly by traditional medicine and in
the street illegally,” said the report. “The dangers of this are numerous and
include death.” The reversal of a boy's HIV status is the
road to new life. He's one of lucky ones [PDF] Jonathan Clayton in cfsc.trunky.net/_uploads/Publications/The_reversal_of_a_boys_HIV_status_is_the_road_to_new_life.pdf [accessed 20 April 2012] There are estimated
to be 50,000 street children in the centre of Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report by Special
Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and Social Council Commission
on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 12 May 2011] [41] Criminal
liability is incurred by a person selling or trafficking children under the
Penal Code, and the right of children not to be subjected to exploitative
practices is enshrined in the Constitution. Child pornography is addressed
through the criminalization of a number of offences, excluding possession,
relating to writings, images, posters or films which are obscene or grossly
indecent. Children under the age of 9 incur no criminal
responsibility. Criminal liability may be incurred by a young
person between the ages of 9 and 15 if they use others for the purpose of
prostitution, or if they use child pornography against others for the purpose
of gain. If such an offence is committed, the court follows a
special procedure for juvenile delinquents. Children over 15 are
tried under the ordinary provisions of the Penal Code for adults. Sanctions
for those between the ages of 9 and 15 include measures to ensure the best
possible treatment of a young person and may include supervised education,
reprimand, school or home arrest, or admission to a corrective institution. Efforts
are being made to give on-the-job training in dealing with juvenile offenders
to most judges and prosecutors. Education Key to
Fighting Child Trafficking, says UNICEF UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=44305 [accessed 12 May 2011] Ljungqvist said that many
children drop out of school and are forced into dangerous work or
prostitution simply because they have no alternatives. The UN says that child
labor is a result of a massive demand for cheap and malleable labor. Often
work involves domestic duties, or it can be prostitution. The ILO, UNICEF and
International Organization for Migration (IOM) aim to combat the danger of
children being exploited through promoting education and ensuring better law
enforcement. Child Prostitution - in Nasir Al-Amin, October
01, 2006 ovcs.blogspot.com/2006/10/child-prostitution-in-addis-ababa.html [accessed 12 May 2011] KEY FINDINGS OF THE
STUDY
- This study has identified types of child prostitution: working on the
streets; working in small bars; working in local arki
or alcohol houses; working in rented houses/beds and; working in rent places
for chat/drugs use. Each location exposes the children to different risks and
hazards. In terms of
background, all the interviewed children
engaged in prostitution were girls, aged between 13 to 18 years. Child prostitutes
brought to SA Mandy Rossouw, Beeld, www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Child-prostitutes-brought-to-SA-20030219 [accessed 12 May 2011] Child prostitution
is flourishing in ECPAT: Child Protection Units in ECPAT International, "Child Protection
Units in At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 May 2011] In 1997, a pilot
project was started in four police stations around the capital: Ethiopian NGO
Fights Child Prostitution Ghion Hagos,
Panafrican News Agency PANA, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/33/077.html [accessed 12 May 2011] Child prostitution
and sexual exploitation in Combating Child Prostitution: The Learning
Point for Child Rights Organizations Eshetu Alemu(
ANPPCAN-U Chapter), Oct 31 2002 www.fk-world.com/en/Blog/My-Blog/?userId=12&entryId=13195 [accessed 12 May 2011] Even though almost
all countries of the world have ratified the Convention on the Rights of the
Child, putting into action of the provisions enshrined in the Convention has
remained a wide loophole. ANPPCAN- Ethiopia
Chapter is running a project focusing on the Rehabilitation and Prevention of
child prostitution in one of the districts in the capital- Addis Ababa. The
specific activities include; community out-reach awareness and sensitization,
family-based counseling to improve family tie, support for the beneficiary
children for skills training, schooling, basic needs and start-up fund as it
applies. Analysis Of The Situation of Sexual
Exploitation of Children in the Eastern and Southern Draft Consultancy Report Prepared as a
component of the UNICEF – ESARO &
ANPPCAN Partnership Project on Sexual Exploitation and Children’s Rights,
October, 2001, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/csec-east-southern-africa-draft.html [accessed 17 June 2011] 6.1
ETHIOPIA
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