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FEATURED ARTICLE *** More Men Buying Sex from Minors Helsingin Sanomat,
YLE News, 02 March 2008 www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2008/03/more_men_buying_sex_from_minors_284795.html [accessed 15 May 2011] Police are
investigating cases where 13 to 17-year-olds sold sexual services for money -
although they say that alcohol, drugs, CD's, jeans and clothes are an even
more common form of payment. Around one in three underage prostitutes are boys,
but as far as police know, all of the customers have been men. The crime is difficult to track, as both
buyer and seller are keen to keep the transaction secret. While prostitution
is legal in Finland, buying sex from minors is not. ***
ARCHIVES *** Runaways
- Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless Rebeccas Community -- This
is for anyone aged up to 13 years old who is thinking about running away www.homeless.org.au/runaways.htm [accessed 15 May 2011] Here are the best
phone numbers to call …They are Confidential - which means they
won't tell anyone about your call unless you want them to talk to somebody
for you, or you are in danger. They
are open 24 Hours - it doesn't matter what time you call In Finland, call 09 753 5121 ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the
status of action against commercial exploitation of children - FINLAND [PDF] ECPAT International, 200x www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-FINLAND.pdf [accessed 15 May 2011] Prostitution in the
country is usually formally organised through
procuring organisations which are careful to ensure
that the individuals they engage in sexual activities are not minors, because
of the stiff penalties and the great risk of getting caught by the
authorities. As a result, most individuals involved in prostitution in the
country are between the ages of 18-29. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61647.htm [accessed 5 February 2011] CHILDREN
- There
were reports of trafficking of children for sexual exploitation TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Most trafficking involved women and girls from Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
30-09-2005 sim.law.uu.nl/SIM/CaseLaw/uncom.nsf/0/e75b499842881be7c1257092002e4f76?OpenDocument [accessed 5 February 2011] [52] While
welcoming that recent amendments to the Penal Code introduced the crime of
trafficking in Finnish legislation, as well as the National Plan of Action
Combating the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children of 2000 and the
National Plan of Action against Trafficking in Human Beings of 2005, the
Committee is concerned at the information that persons, including children,
continue to be trafficked to and through the country. More Men Buying Sex from Minors Helsingin Sanomat,
YLE News, 02 March 2008 www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2008/03/more_men_buying_sex_from_minors_284795.html [accessed 15 May 2011] Police are
investigating cases where 13 to 17-year-olds sold sexual services for money -
although they say that alcohol, drugs, CD's, jeans and clothes are an even
more common form of payment. Around one in three underage prostitutes are
boys, but as far as police know, all of the customers have been men. The crime is difficult to track, as both
buyer and seller are keen to keep the transaction secret. While prostitution
is legal in Finland, buying sex from minors is not. 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 – FINLAND – The Committee on the Rights of the Child has
expressed its deep concern about the problem of child sex tourism committed
by Finns in nearby countries of the former Soviet Union, and urged that
adequate measures should be taken to combat it. Finnish and Russian
authorities have been working together to tackle child sex tourism. This cooperation led to the prosecution of
a Finnish man for sexually exploiting a minor in Contribution by President of
the Republic Tarja Halonen
at a conference of experts dealing with child trafficking in the Baltic Sea
region "Stop Child Trafficking: Modern-Day Slavery" in President Tarja Halonen, www.childcentre.info/projects/traffickin/halonen_speech.doc [accessed 15 May 2011] A question often
asked is how many children fall victim to trafficking here in our own Baltic
Sea Region. To be frank, we do not know exactly. Researchers trying to
compile data have had to face harassment, intimidation and threats. The
people engaged in child trafficking are determined to persist in their
illegal and immoral activities. Nor are those who exploit children any more
willing to tell about their own actions. It has not proved
possible to stop child trafficking through bans and prohibitions, for which
reason attempts have been made to tackle its underlying causes as well. That
is not easy, either, because both opinions and economic and social structures
change only very slowly and after a lot of hard and tenacious work. The main focus has
been on children. We have examined what makes a child vulnerable to the sex
trade – poverty, broken families, lack of education, abuse and violence at home,
and so on. Protecting children from these things is good of course, but we
must not close our eyes to the fact that the real cause of the sex trade is a
demand for sex with minors, not poverty. Poverty only makes it possible to
find a victim. We must pay more attention to the users. Children in Viipuri
Attest to Sex Trips by Finns Marjo Ollikainen
in Viipuri/Vyborg, Helsingin
Sanomat, 29.1.2000 www2.hs.fi/english/archive/thisweek/05082000.html [accessed 15 May 2011] The “New Thailand”
for Finnish men extends from Sortavala in Russian
Karelia down to Viipuri and No indication of widespread organised child prostitution in Finland Helsingin Sanomat,
International Edition, 12.6.2002 www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20020612IE7 [accessed 15 May 2011] POLICE CONCERNED
ABOUT USE OF INTERNET CHAT LINES FOR CHILD SEX SERVICES - Police believe
that some children in The
Situation in people.exeter.ac.uk/watupman/undergrad/aac/suomi.htm [accessed 15 May 2011] DE FACTO - Prostitution has
not been common in Protection Project: The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/finland.doc [accessed 2009] National
Action Plan Combating Human Trafficking in Child Centre for Children at Risk in the www.childcentre.info/projects/traffickin/finland/dbaFile12215.html [accessed 15 May 2011] The Government in
its general session on 25 August 2005 approved the national action plan
against human trafficking. The action plan is the first ever proposal for
comprehensive measures to combat human trafficking in Sexual
exploitation of children rises in UN News Centre, 6 May 2004 www.un.org/special-rep/ohrlls/News_flash2004/06%20May%20Sexual%20exploitation%20of%20children.htm [accessed 15 May 2011] Last year as many
as 100,000 tourists, mainly from Britain, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Germany,
visited Gambia. Andris Straumanis,
Editor, Latvians Online, June 15, 2004 latviansonline.com/news/article/107/ [accessed 5 February 2011] Women and children
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