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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
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. HELP for Victims Hong Kong Police Department ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** General Situation
of Children in childrenrights.org At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 22 May
2011] CHILDREN IN
DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES 3.2 CHILD
PROSTITUTION
- Child prostitution does not occur on a large scale but from police raids of
vice establishments, it is known that child prostitution does occur and more
frequently so during summer school holidays. Young illegal immigrants from
nearby countries are also found to engage in prostitution. ***
ARCHIVES *** Runaways
- Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless Rebeccas Community -- This
is for anyone aged up to 13 years old who is thinking about running away www.homeless.org.au/runaways.htm [accessed 22 May
2011] Here are the best
phone numbers to call …They are Confidential - which means they won't tell
anyone about your call unless you want them to talk to somebody for you, or
you are in danger. They are open 24
Hours - it doesn't matter what time you call.
In ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Lisa Pouille, ECPAT
International, 2010 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Global_Monitoring_Report_HK%20SAR.pdf [accessed 30 August
2020] Desk review of existing
information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Hong Kong. The
report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive measures, child
and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes recommendations for action
against SEC. 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/china/hong-kong/ [accessed 30 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - Under the law a person having “unlawful sexual
intercourse” with a victim younger than 16 is subject to five years’
imprisonment, while having unlawful sexual intercourse with a victim younger
than 13 carries a sentence of life imprisonment. The law prohibits the
commercial sexual exploitation of children and procuring children for
prostitution. The law makes it an offense to possess, produce, copy, import,
or export pornography involving a child or to publish or cause to be
published any advertisement that conveys, or is likely to be understood as
conveying, the message that a person has published, publishes, or intends to
publish any child pornography. Authorities enforced the law. The penalty for
creation, publication, or advertisement of child pornography is eight years’
imprisonment, while possession carries a penalty of five years’ imprisonment. The legal age for
consensual sex is 16. Five Years After
Stockholm [PDF] 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 – A Condensed Press Review Prepared By The Consulate General Of The Consulate
General of www.sinoptic.ch/hongkong/archives/2005/200509.htm [accessed 22 May
2011] LEGAL
AFFAIRS AND HUMAN RIGHTS - HK pledges to adopt
UN child-protection law: During a UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
hearing in Indonesia's
Shameful Export Devi Asmarani, The Straits Times , 8 June 2004 yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/indonesias-shameful-export [accessed 22 May
2011] UNICEF says as many
as 70,000 Indonesian children have been sold across the country's borders as
sex commodities. They are employed in countries such as ***
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/2005/61605.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] HONG
KONG – CHILDREN
- The Domestic Violence Ordinance mandates substantial legal penalties for
acts of child abuse such as battery, assault, neglect, abandonment, sexual
exploitation, and child sex tourism, and the government enforced the law. All
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for noncommercial, nonprofit, and educational use. PLEASE RESPECT COPYRIGHTS OF COMPONENT
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