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Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In the
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from the web to illuminate the situation in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/guyana.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Girls in the Hinterland area in particular are recruited to work as
domestic servants and waitresses in restaurants. The 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/2005/61730.htm [accessed 8 February 2011] SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
According to the 2001 UNICEF-sponsored Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey, 27
percent of children between the ages of 5 and 14 were economically active.
The majority of children started working between the ages of 10 and 14.
Approximately 45 percent of children worked in the interior regions. The
report indicated that most children were not involved in the worst forms of
child labor, and estimated that 3 percent of the children were involved in
commercial sexual activity. Teenage prostitution
was a problem. Concluding Observations of the
Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 30 January 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/guyana2004.html [accessed 8 February 2011] [53] The Committee notes the
results of the studies on the problem of sexual exploitation in the State
party and expresses its concern at the lack of specific data on this issue
and of targeted measures to address it. [59] The Committee notes that the State
party has not ratified the Optional Protocols to the Convention on the sale
of children, child prostitution and child pornography, and on the involvement
of children in armed conflict. 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 21 May 2011] [45] Protection Project Report - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/guyana.doc [accessed 2009] GOVERNMENT RESPONSES - The Criminal Law Offence Act
criminalizes abduction of an unmarried girl. It also outlaws child
prostitution by prohibiting an owner, occupier, or manager of any premises to
cause or allow a girl younger than 13 to be on a premises for the purpose of
having unlawful sexual intercourse. Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) Concludes
Thirty-Fifth Session UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Press Release,
30 January 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 21 May 2011] With regard to the report of
Guyana … the Committee recommended, among other things, that the State party
raise the age of the minimum sexual consent and the minimum age of criminal
responsibility to an internationally acceptable one; and continue to
strengthen measures aimed at increasing enrolment rates in primary and
secondary education and to further increase attempts to bring dropouts back
to school and other training programs. All material used herein
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