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FEATURED ARTICLE *** 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/guyana/ [accessed 30 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The age of sexual consent is 16. By law a person who
has sexual relations with a child younger than 16 may be found guilty of a
felony and imprisoned for life. There were continued reports of children
being exploited in prostitution. The law prohibits the commercial sexual exploitation
of children age 18 and younger. Laws related to pornography and pornographic
performances do not prohibit the use, procuring, and offering of a child for
each of these purposes. The law also regulates selling, publishing, or
exhibiting obscene material, defined as anything that could deprave or
corrupt those open to immoral influences. The country is not a destination
for child sex tourism. 2018 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child Labor,
Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor Affairs,
US Dept of Labor, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 30 August
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 587] Children in Guyana,
including girls as young as age 12, are involved in commercial sexual
exploitation in Georgetown and the country’s interior. There are reports of
young girls in mining communities being subjected to commercial sexual
exploitation as a result of human trafficking. (2,4-6) Guyanese law does
not sufficiently prohibit all commercial sexual exploitation of children as
it does not prohibit the use, procuring, and offering of a child for
pornographic performances. (5,25,29) Although Article 50(1) of the Protection
of Children Act prohibits selling or giving drugs to children, the law does
not specifically prohibit the use, procuring, or offering of a child for the
production and trafficking of drugs. (26,30) 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. Regional
Governmental Congress on Sexual Exploitation of Children [PDF] The Honourable Bibi Safora Shadick, Minister Within the Ministry of Labour, Human Services & Social Security, Report on
Sexual Exploitation www.iin.oas.org/Congreso%20Explotation%20Sexual/GUYANA_ing.PDF [accessed 19
November 2016] ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** 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] 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 - 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 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61730.htm
[accessed 9 February
2020] 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. All
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