C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction, hunger, neglect,
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims Emergency hotline: 06/80-20-55-20 Police: 107 or 112 (international emergency line) Country code: 36- ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Underage
prostitution arrests Thomas Escritt, The [accessed 21 April
2012] Police in Szabolcs-Szatmár county have arrested three men who
abducted two girls and forced them into prostitution. The girls - aged 14 and 15 - were forced
into a car in the eastern town of Nyíregyháza on
June 20 and held captive in a flat. A
police spokesman said that proceedings were underway against one 22-year old
and two 45-year old men for suspected violation of personal freedom. Experts agree that
there is no reliable data on the number of minors who are subjected to
similar ordeals each year. According
to Anna Betlen, a former Interior Ministry employee
who is now an independent expert on the issues surrounding human trafficking,
it would require more people, money and time to assess the scale of the
problem than the government is currently prepared to spare ***
ARCHIVES *** 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/hungary/ [accessed 30 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - Buying sexual services from a child younger than 18 is
a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. Forcing a child into
prostitution is a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. The law
prohibits child pornography. The statute of limitations does not apply to
sexual crimes against children. The government generally enforced the law. The minimum age for
consensual sex is 12, provided the older partner is 18 or younger. Persons
older than 18 who engage in sexual relations with a minor between the ages of
12 and 14 may be punished by one to five years’ imprisonment. By law
statutory rape is a felony punishable by five to 10 years’ imprisonment if
the victim is younger than 12. Law enforcement
authorities arrested and prosecuted children who were the victims of sex
trafficking as misdemeanor offenders. NGOs strongly criticized this practice
for blaming or punishing the victim. The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/hungary.htm [accessed 8 February
2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children work as beggars in urban areas, and also as
prostitutes, according to Budapest Police, although the scope of the problem
is unknown. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 5 June 1998 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/hungary1998.html [accessed 8 February
2011] [22] The Committee
is concerned about the insufficiency of legal and other measures to address
the issue of sexual exploitation of children, including child prostitution and
trafficking of children. 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 – Statistical
Dimension of Sexual Exploitation of Children Indian NGOs
Children's Forum At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 23 May
2011] There are an
estimated 500 children engaged in prostitution. (CATW Fact Book, citing
"Hungary considers legalised prostitution", 1 December 1997, citing
UNICEF) There are an
estimated 500 child prostitutes in Budapest. (Guardian, August 1996,
reprinted in ECPAT Bulletin) The proportion of
girls under 18 in prostitution, according to the police, is 5-10% in
Budapest. (ECPAT International, Helena Karlen and Christene Hagnen, Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children in Some Eastern European Countries, March
1996) ECPAT: Trafficking
in Children for Sexual Purposes ECPAT International
Newsletter, Issue No : 33
1/December/2000 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13
September 2011] EASTERN EUROPE - ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61652.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Child prostitution was not a common practice, although isolated incidents occurred.
Severe penalties existed under the law for those persons convicted of
sexually abusing children by engaging in such acts. Although child
prostitutes are not criminally prosecuted, they can be remanded to juvenile
centers for rehabilitation and to complete school. Trafficking in children for the purpose of
sexual exploitation was a problem. All
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