C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** ECPAT: CSEC
Overview - Country Report ECPAT International At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 May
2011] Little information
is available specifically on the state of the commercial sexual exploitation
of children in ***
ARCHIVES *** 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/gabon/ [accessed 30 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the commercial sexual exploitation of
children and child pornography, and authorities generally enforced the law.
Perpetrators convicted of procuring a child for prostitution or a child
pornography-related offense may be sentenced to between two and five years’
imprisonment. Conviction of child sex trafficking is punishable by 20 years’
imprisonment and fines of up to 100 million CFA ($169,779). Conviction of
possession of child pornography is punishable by imprisonment of six months
to one year and a fine of up to 222,000 CFA francs ($377). These penalties
were sufficient to deter violations. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/gabon.htm [accessed 6 February
2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - A social practice known as “placement” is also
reported to be a problem. According to tradition, poor families send
their children to more affluent homes where the children receive an education
in exchange for performing various services for their host families.
However, the practice has degenerated, and placed children are allegedly
trafficked or subjected to commercial sexual exploitation. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 1 February 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/gabon2002.html [accessed 6 February
2011] [64] The Committee
is concerned about the increasing number of child victims of commercial sexual
exploitation, including prostitution and pornography. Concern is also expressed at the
insufficient programs for the physical and psychological recovery and social
reintegration of child victims of such abuse and exploitation. The Protection
Project - Gabon [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/gabon.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - In addition,
children from ECPAT: CSEC
in ECPAT International
Newsletters, Issue No : 34
1/March/2001 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 May
2011] CONFRONTING
THE PROBLEM
- Increasingly governments are willing to acknowledge that CSEC is a growing
problem within their borders, as well as the region, and are making efforts
to combat it. The Togolese government, for example, has developed a national
action plan on child trafficking and child abuse. The Department for the
Protection and Promotion of the Family and of Children has been carrying out
education and sensitization campaigns against sexual exploitation and the
trafficking of children for sexual purposes. In addition, it has been
cooperating with governments of neighboring countries, particularly Gabon, to remedy the situation. New Global Treaty
to Combat "Sex Slavery" United Nations
Department of Public Information, DPI/2098, February 2000 -- Tenth United
Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders books.google.com/books/about/New_Global_Treaty_to_Combat_sex_Slavery.html?id=oQF1PAAACAAJ [accessed 3
September 2014] CHILDREN
SOLD OR KIDNAPPED
- Child victims are easy to come by. In some regions, parents sell their
children to traffickers for ready cash. Or traffickers simply kidnap them.
Kidnapping is especially common in orphanages, where children's photographs
are taken so that future "owners" can choose the child they want.
According to Anti-Slavery International, children aged 8 to 15 years are
"recruited" or kidnapped from backward villages of the poorest
countries in Africa, such as All
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