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FEATURED ARTICLE *** The Commercial Sexual Exploitation And Sexual Abuse Of
Children In A Project of Save the Children - Fiji www.unescap.org/esid/gad/Issues/CSEC/CSEC%20Fiji%20Report%20_Edited_%201205.pdf [accessed 14 May 2011] [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 *** 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] 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 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78773.htm [accessed
5 February 2011] CHILDREN - 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. 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Radio At one time this article had been archived and may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 Commercial Sexual Exploitation And Sexual Abuse Of
Children In A Project of Save the Children - www.unescap.org/esid/gad/Issues/CSEC/CSEC%20Fiji%20Report%20_Edited_%201205.pdf [accessed 14 May 2011] [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 The Protection Project - 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 Data Global March Against Child Labour www.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/fiji.html [accessed 13 May 2011] 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
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