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ARCHIVES *** 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] 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 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61651.htm [accessed 7 February 2011] 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. 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 All material
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