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FEATURED ARTICLE *** The Commercial
Sexual Exploitation And Sexual Abuse Of Children In A Project of Save
the Children - Fiji ebookbrowse.com/situational-analysis-on-the-commercial-sexual-exploitation-and-sexual-abuse-of-children-in-fiji-2004-pdf-d300811534 [accessed 4 October
2012] [3.1.1] TYPES OF
COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - There is a general consensus across
communities and amongst NGOs working on these issues, that
the general age of those involved in prostitution is decreasing. The
observations of the research team on the streets and in the nightclubs of ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Overview
[PDF] Rosalind Fennell,
ECPAT International, June 2019 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/ECPAT-Country-Overview-Report-Fiji-2019.pdf [accessed 28 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Fiji,
Pacific. The overview gathers existing publicly available information on sexual
exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child sexual
exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes, sexual
exploitation of children through prostitution, child early and forced
marriage (CEFM) and identifies gaps, research needs, and recommendations 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/fiji/ [accessed 28 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - Commercial sexual exploitation of children continued.
It is an offense for any person to buy or hire a child younger than age 18
for sex, exploitation in prostitution, or other unlawful purpose; the offense
is punishable by a maximum 12 years’ imprisonment. No prosecutions or
convictions for trafficking of children occurred during the year. It is an offense
for a householder or innkeeper to allow commercial sexual exploitation of
children in his or her premises. There were no known prosecutions or
convictions for such offenses during the year. Some high-school-age
children and homeless and jobless youth were trafficked for commercial sex
during the year, and there were reports of child sex tourism in tourist
centers, such as Nadi and Savusavu.
Commercial sexual exploitation of children was perpetuated by family members,
taxi drivers, foreign tourists, businessmen, and crew members on foreign
fishing vessels. The NGO Pacific Dialogue and the International Labor
Organization claimed to have received reports of children engaging in
organized prostitution, including being advertised online. The minimum age for
consensual sex is 16. The court of appeals has ruled that 10 years is the
minimum appropriate sentence for child rape, but police often charged
defendants with “defilement” rather than rape because defilement was easier
to prove in court. Defilement or unlawful carnal knowledge of a child younger
than age 13 has a maximum penalty of life imprisonment, while the maximum
penalty for defilement of a child ages 13 to 15, or of a person with
intellectual disabilities, is 10 years’ imprisonment. Child pornography
is illegal. The maximum penalty is 14 years in prison, a fine of FJD 25,000
($11,400), or both for a first offense; and life imprisonment, a maximum fine
of FJD 50,000 ($22,900), or both for a repeat offense, and the confiscation
of any equipment used in the commission of the crime. The law requires
mandatory reporting to police by teachers and health and social-welfare
workers of any incident of child abuse. 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 28 August
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 510] During the
reporting period, the NGO Pacific Dialogue and ILO claimed to have received
reports of children engaging in organized prostitution, including being
advertised online.(7) Commercial sexual exploitation
of children continued to occur in Fiji, particularly by family members, taxi
drivers, foreign tourists, businessmen, and crew on foreign fishing vessels.
(1,3,11-13,17) Parents sometimes send their children
to live with families in cities or near schools to facilitate their
continuing education and to perform light household work. Research found that
some of these children are vulnerable to involuntary domestic work or are
forced to engage in sexual activity in exchange for food, clothing, or
shelter.(3,17-19) Children as young
as 13 involved in sex trade Geraldine Coutts,
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC Radio At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 May
2011] LEE: The Fiji Womens Crisis Centre says vulnerable children are
increasingly finding themselves hanging around ports, attracted to the sex
trade that often occurs off shore.
It's also claimed that children are being employed as prostitutes by
pimps who also double as taxi drivers, as well as attracting paedophiles on the streets. The Center's co-ordinator,
Shamima Ali, says they're investigating yatchties who allegedly lure young children to swim out
to sea and hop on board to perform sex acts in exchange for less than twenty
dollars. ALI: We're expressing concern
that maybe these children are being taken around and being passed on to other
people and so on. They are very vulnerable children, particularly given the
poverty sitution of the economy in When child labour
is not legal The www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=64273 [Last access date
unavailable] Some of the worst
forms of child labour globally are drug trafficking, pornography and child
prostitution. Labour rights and
wrongs The www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=58705 [Last access date
unavailable] Until such time, we
do not have concrete statistics but some of the worst forms of child labour exists here like child prostitution. In the child committee meeting, even the
police force also recognised that there are some
child prostitutes and sometimes children are seen to be carrying drugs. It has also been reported that children are
used for pornographic purposes, so these are the worst forms of child labour
and sometimes you hear of reports that these sort of
things exist. There are some cases in lyris.spc.int/read/messages?id=51271 [accessed 14 May
2011] Children in The report, by the
UN Children's Fund Pacific, the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia
and the Pacific and End Child Prostitution, and Child Pornography and
Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes, is based on studies in 2004 and
2005 in The report in its
summary said the five studies confirmed that in each country children were
sexually abused by family members and neighbours,
and that child prostitution, child pornography, early marriage, child sex
tourism and trafficking occurred. The
Protection Project - Fiji [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/fiji.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE – FORMS OF TRAFFICKING
- As
recently as late December 2003, 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 – Another Aspect of
the Sodomy Case Shobhna Decloitre,
Media/Promotions Officer, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 15 May
2011] The Fiji Human
Rights Commission believes that a clear signal should be given to foreign
visitors and local people that authorities, including courts in Some years ago, a
case of sexual exploitation of children in In the trial during
the Mark Mutch case, the judge said "let the
message be very clear to people like Mutch that any
kind of sexual exploitation of children will not be tolerated in the Republic
of the What Makes Children
Vulnerable to Sexual Exploitation? ECPAT International At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 15 May
2011] CONSUMERISM - In many
developed countries young people are being pushed into prostitution, not as
members of the underclass trying to escape grinding poverty but as members of
the middle class who desire greater disposable income. They enter the sex
trade because they are overwhelmed by the prospect of earning a lot of money
quickly. They are enticed by peer pressure or powerful advertising, as well
as the value that society places on expensive brand name products or luxury
goods and services. In Worst Forms of
Child Labour Report 2005 - Fiji Global March Against
Child Labour, 2005 beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/fiji.html accessed 13
September 2012] CHILD
PROSTITUTION AND PORNOGRAPHY - There are reports of parents offering the
sexual services of their own children for money to sailors from Boys and girls in Child prostitution
is happening in urban centres, says Adi Vulase of Safetynet Care Report of the
Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography, Ms. Ofelia Calcetas-Santos - Addendum UN Economic and
Social Council, Commission On Human Rights, Fifty-sixth session, 27 December
1999 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/4aeb5780d6b8516e802568960053e092?Opendocument [accessed 13 May
2011] VII. CONCLUSIONS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS 104. The Special
Rapporteur is disturbed that the contagion of commercial exploitation of
children does not seem to have spared even a relatively isolated country like
Violation of
Children’s and Women’s Rights: The Case of Trafficking and Commercial Sexual
Exploitation
[PDF] Ms. Mehr Khan, UNICEF Regional Director, www.fhs.mcmaster.ca/slru/ic2003/Khan.pdf [accessed 16 April
2011] [PAGE 40] THE SCOPE AND NATURE OF THE PROBLEM IN THE EAP REGION - Although smaller
in scale, the commercial sexual exploitation of children also appears to be
escalating in the ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** The Department of Labor’s 2005 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor [PDF] www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2005/tda2005.pdf [accessed 10
November 2010] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor CHILD LABOR LAWS AND
ENFORCEMENT
– The Constitution prohibits forced labor, and the Penal Code prohibits the
sale or hiring of minors less than 16 years of age for prostitution. Human Rights
Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78773.htm [accessed 8 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Multiple reports suggested that child prostitution increased during the year.
Child prostitution was evident in poverty-stricken urban areas and among
homeless urban youth. Urban migration and the subsequent breakdown of
community structures, children from outer islands living with relatives while
attending high school, and homelessness all appeared to be factors that
increased a child's chance of being exploited for commercial sex. Increasing
urbanization led to more children working as casual laborers, often with no
safeguards against abuse or injury. All
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