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FEATURED ARTICLE *** ECPAT International Report: France [PDF] Florence Tamerlo, Karine Pidery & Nadine Benichou,
3/9/2004 At one time this article had been archived and may possibly
still be accessible [here] [accessed 15 May 2011] 2. SITUATION OF MINORS IN PROBLEMS OF DEFINITION - When taken in charge by the police or social care services, children involved in prostitution are considered to be at-risk children. Official figures concerning children are mixed up, and those aged 15 to 18 are not reported as such. It is explained as a will to avoid traumatizing the child by labeling him or her as a prostitute. Lastly, children under 15 are prone to more covert prostitution qualified as pedophilia and therefore escape the prostitution statistics. All child sex assaults are reported as sexual abuse, not prostitution. Moreover, some prostitution related-facts are considered as pedophilia, not prostitution. The result is that France has no child prostitution because the figures show none. ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61648.htm [accessed 5 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – In 2003
police arrested 67 adults in a Roma encampment outside Paris and charged them
with organizing sexual enslavement of Roma children who were kidnapped from
Romania, brought to the country, raped to make them obey, and sent out on the
streets of Paris and its suburbs to steal and prostitute themselves.
According to press reports, the children were forced to earn $240 (200 euros)
a day or face severe physical punishment. The child‑traffickers
remained in jail awaiting trial at the end of the year. Traffickers of the Romanian
children of Romani descent have traditionally used the
children as beggars and thieves, but many of the children have increasingly
turned to or been forced into prostitution. Police estimated that 90 percent
of the 15 thousand to 18 thousand female prostitutes working in the country
were trafficking victims, and that 3 thousand to 8 thousand children were
forced into prostitution and labor, including begging. In a 2003 report the
UNCHR rapporteur criticized the government for
"continuing to deny the existence and the scale of sexual cruelty
against children" with regard to trafficked children and called for the
NCCHR to further investigate the situation. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 30 June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/france2004.html [accessed 5 February 2011] [54] The Committee notes that,
following the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children in Stockholm in 1996, a National Plan of Action was adopted to
protect children from abuse and ill treatment. The following year, in 1997,
protection of abused children was declared a national priority. However, the
Committee is concerned at the occurrence of trafficking of children, prostitution
and related issues, as noted in the Report of the Special Rapporteur
on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography following
his mission to 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 – FRANCE – According to ECPAT France and AFESIP, Special rapporteur
on sale of children, independent expert on violence against children present
reports UN Commission on Human Rights, Press Release, 07 Apr 2004 www.hrea.org/lists/child-rights/markup/msg00278.html [accessed 15 May 2011] DOCUMENTS ON RIGHTS OF THE CHILD - According to this information, children
are being trafficked into ECPAT International Report: France [PDF] At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 15 May 2011] 2.
SITUATION OF MINORS IN PROBLEMS
OF DEFINITION - When
taken in charge by the police or social care services, children involved in
prostitution are considered to be at-risk children. Official figures
concerning children are mixed up, and those aged 15 to 18 are not reported as
such. It is explained as a will to avoid traumatizing the child by labeling
him or her as a prostitute. Lastly, children under 15 are prone to more covert
prostitution qualified as pedophilia and therefore escape the prostitution
statistics. All child sex assaults are reported as sexual abuse, not
prostitution. Moreover, some prostitution related-facts are considered as
pedophilia, not prostitution. The result is that Dozens convicted of pedophilia
in France Samantha Bordes, The Associated
Press AP, July 28, 2005 www.theage.com.au/news/world/dozens-convicted-of-pedophilia-in-france/2005/07/28/1122143950409.html [accessed 15 May 2011] BBC News, 19 May, 2004 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3729049.stm [accessed 15 May 2011] The trial of 13 people in northern
Air www.world-tourism.org/protect_children/movie/air_france.htm [Last access date unavailable] Since 15 March 1999, AIR FRANCE has
screened this video on long-haul flights to raise awareness about the problem
of child sex tourism. It informs
travelers that there are laws to punish abusers when they are abroad, but
also on their return home. RIGHTS OF THE CHILD - Report submitted by Juan Miguel
Petit, Special Rapporteur on the sale of children,
child prostitution and child pornography - Addendum - Mission to France,
25-29 November 2002 [PDF] UN Economic and Social Council, E/CN.4/2004/9/Add.1, 14
October 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/cbba1e5f4208f627c1256df7002f3b5a/$FILE/G0316328.pdf [accessed 5 February 2011] SUMMARY - The report focuses on the sale
of children in the context of trafficking of children and child prostitution,
and on child pornography and its links with domestic child sexual abuse. Concerning the sale of children,
trafficking and child prostitution, the report relates information presented
to the Special Rapporteur by the Children’s
Ombudsman (Défenseure des enfants),
the police, NGOs, as well as government ministries. According to this information, children are
being trafficked into France primarily from Eastern Europe, notably Romania,
and from West Africa, but also from Asia including such countries as
India and China. Many, if not most, of
these children are under the control of trafficking networks and are forced
into prostitution. The Government of
France is starting to work with the authorities of the countries concerned,
in particular with Romania with which it signed a bilateral agreement in 2001
with respect to returning children. V.
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 76. Prostitution is reportedly growing rapidly, but the
regular use of minors as prostitutes is a relatively new phenomenon and new
legislation has been introduced to ensure that the clients of child
prostitutes will be arrested. The
Special Rapporteur commends the Government of
France for its efforts not to criminalize the children concerned by
subjecting them to detention, and recognizes the difficulties it is facing in
protecting such children from continuing in prostitution. 77. Many foreign children are involved in
prostitution. Most of the children in
prostitution are controlled by pimps, some of whom live in another country
and control the prostitution by cell phone from abroad, usually getting an
older child to supervise the younger victims. 78. Concerning child sex tourism, the Government of
France is taking measures to combat these offences being committed abroad by
French citizens. The Government has
adopted extraterritorial legislation to increase the chances of their being
arrested and brought to trial, and all government representatives abroad have
been instructed to collaborate with local police on these cases. There were no reports of sex tourism within
France. All material used herein
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