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situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking for
material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of particular
interest to you. You might be
interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and how
some succeed in leaving. Perhaps your
paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their leaving. Other factors of interest might be poverty,
rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction, hunger, neglect,
etc. On the other hand, you might
choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who control this
activity. There is a lot to the
subject of Child Prostitution. Scan
other countries as well as this one.
Draw comparisons between activity in adjacent countries and/or
regions. Meanwhile, check out some of
the Term-Paper
resources that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT - Report on
the scale, scope and context of the sexual exploitation of children [PDF] Angharad Smith and Rima Khemiri, ECPAT International, December 2019 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/ECPAT-Country-Overview-Report-Greece-2019.pdf [accessed 25 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Greece,
Europe. The overview gathers existing publicly available information on
sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child
sexual exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes,
sexual exploitation of children through prostitution, child early and forced
marriage (CEFM) and identifies gaps, research needs, and recommendations. 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/greece/ [accessed 30 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The legal age of consent is 15. The law criminalizes
sex with children younger than age 15. The law prohibits the commercial
sexual exploitation of children and child pornography and imposes penalties
if the crime was committed using technology in the country. Authorities
generally enforced the law. U.S.
Department of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs - Paragraph
[99] (Albania) Vera Lesko, Entela Avdulaj, and Mirela Koci, and Dashuri Minxolli, Annual Report 2003 on the Trafficking in
Humans, 'The Hearth' www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/albania.htm#_ftnref99 [accessed 18 May
2011] [99] 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/greece2002.html [accessed 7 February
2011] [76] Welcoming the State
party’s recent bill in this regard, the Committee remains concerned: (a) at reports of
the sexual exploitation of children;
(b) at reports of children being trafficked into, and sometimes
through, the State party for, inter alia, sexual exploitation; (c) at the absence of available official
statistics on the sexual exploitation and/or trafficking of children; (d) at the lack of protection under the law
of boy prostitutes. Legislation of
Interpol member states on sexual offences against children [PDF] The International
Criminal Police Organization INTERPOL, 2006 www.interpol.int/Public/Children/SexualAbuse/NationalLaws/CsaGreece.pdf [accessed 18 May
2011] IV.
CHILD PROSTITUTION
- Child prostitution is completely prohibited in 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 – Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and
Social Council Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January
2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 18 May
2011] [44] The provisions of the OP/SOC, which has
been signed but not yet ratified, are included in recent Law No.
3064/2002.Perpetrators of the sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography will be criminalized, not the child victim; the Juvenile Court
has jurisdiction over such children and will deal with them through educative
measures. Such children are entitled to medical, legal and
psychological assistance, asylum and temporary housing facilities. UN
Special Rapporteur Ends Visit to United Nations UN
Press Release, 8 November 2005 www.hrea.org/lists/child-rights/markup/msg00369.html [accessed 18 May
2011] This is the first
remark I want to make. Child trafficking is not a problem of Special
Rapporteur Visits Jean-Miguel Petit,
Special Rapporteur, Press Release 11/17/2005 www.crin.org/violence/search/closeup.asp?infoID=6577 [accessed 18 May
2011] The situation of
Roma and Roma children is a concern. I visited a Roma settlement in which
housing conditions and sanitation are just not acceptable. Access to health
and education is limited or lacking and social programs are not providing
assistance to the community. The State should take specific measures to
improve the living conditions and the possibilities of development of Roma
communities to give to Roma children alternatives other than street work or
prostitution as survival strategies for them and their families. UN
Expert Fighting Sex Trafficking Calls For Coordinated Child Protection In United Nations UN
Press Release, 16 November 2005 www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0511/S00283.htm [accessed 18 May
2011] Even though the
number of registered cases of child sexual exploitation and trafficking in UNICEF
Calls for Eradication of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children United Nations
Children's Fund UNICEF, www.unicef.org/newsline/01pr97printer.htm [accessed 18 May
2011] UNICEF is addressing
the underlying causes of child sexual abuse by working to improve access to
and quality of education, raising awareness, and advocating for children's
rights. UNICEF supports programs that help communities become the first line
of protection for children, and is also advocating strengthened legislation
and legal enforcement to stop the commercial sex trade of children. In Campaign against
sex slavery Kathimerini, English Edition,
June 27, 2002 www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_27/06/2002_18048 [accessed 7 February
2011] In 1990, the number
of victims of sexual exploitation came to 2,100. In 1993, the figure had
risen to 8,500 and then rocketed to a record 21,700 in 1997. There has been a
slight decline since, with the number of people forced into prostitution
coming to 19,500 in 2000, among whom were about 1,000 children aged 13, 14
and 15. Lazos attributed this slight drop to more
intensive policing and economic problems that have led to a shortage of cash
among customers. Model UN - Child
Prostitution Work Session:
3/24/04; Debate: 4/14/04 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 May
2011] Although the United
Nations Declaration of the Rights of the Child states, “The child shall be
protected against all forms of neglect, cruelty, and exploitation… he shall
not be the subject of traffic, in any form,” millions of children around the
world are exploited by the sex trade in the form of child prostitution. An
estimated one million children, mostly girls, enter the commercial sex trade
each year, and all of these children are at increased risk of violence, drug
abuse, and HIV/AIDS. Though many work in their
native countries, thousands are trafficked into other countries as well, such
as in Greece, where over 40% of
the child prostitutes are from neighboring countries like ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61651.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Women and children arrived as "tourists" or illegal immigrants
and were lured into prostitution
by club owners who threatened them with deportation. There were reports that
traffickers kidnapped victims, including minors, from their homes abroad and
smuggled them into the country, where they were sold to local procurers.
Traffickers less frequently confined victims to apartments, hotels, and clubs
against their will, failed to register them with authorities, and forced them
to surrender their passports. Some rescued victims reported being given small
stipends, mobile phones, and limited freedoms but nevertheless were coerced,
threatened, and abused by their traffickers. All material
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