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FEATURED ARTICLE *** ECPAT: CSEC Overview - Country Report ECPAT International At one time this article had been archived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 *** 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] 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. ECPAT: CSEC Overview - Country Report ECPAT International At one time this article had been archived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 The Protection Project - 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34 1/March/2001 At one time this article had been archived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 www.un.org/events/10thcongress/2098.htm [accessed 6 February 2011] 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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