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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Children lured into drugs and prostitution UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, Baghdad, February 12, 2007 www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=70094 [accessed 31 May 2011] GLUE SNIFFING - Sami Rubaie, 12, lives on the streets of "I cry every
time a man has sex with me and they usually hit me because I am crying. After
I do it, my boss gives me a good quantity of glue and around US $3 dollars
for food. I know what I'm doing is wrong but it's better than living with
daily beatings from my father for not bringing him enough money," Sami
said. Rania Abouzeid, www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1883696,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly [accessed 13 February 2011] That underworld is
a place where nefarious female pimps hold sway, where impoverished mothers
sell their teenage daughters into a sex market that believes females who
reach the age of 20 are too old to fetch a good price. The youngest victims,
some just 11 and 12, are sold for as much as $30,000, others for as little as
$2,000. "The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it's like the trade in
cattle," Hinda says. "I've seen mothers
haggle with agents over the price of their daughters." (See pictures of
Iraq since the fall of Saddam.) The trafficking
routes are both local and international, most often to Syria, Jordan and the
Gulf (primarily the United Arab Emirates). The victims are trafficked
illegally on forged passports, or "legally" through forced
marriages. A married female, even one as young as 14, raises few suspicions
if she's travelling with her "husband." The girls are then divorced
upon arrival and put to work. (See Iraq's return to "normalcy".) ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61689.htm [accessed 13 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
- Detection of trafficking was extremely difficult due to lack of information
because of the security situation, existing societal controls of women, and
the closed-tribal culture. There were reports of girls and women trafficked
within the country for sexual exploitation. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 9
October 1998 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/iraq1998.html [accessed 13 February 2011] [27] The Committee
notes with concern the situation of children living and/or working on the
streets, particularly as it relates to economic and sexual exploitation. In
this regard, the Committee encourages the State party to increase preventive
measures and its efforts to ensure the rehabilitation and reintegration of
these children. Rania Abouzeid, www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1883696,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly [accessed 13 February 2011] That underworld is
a place where nefarious female pimps hold sway, where impoverished mothers
sell their teenage daughters into a sex market that believes females who
reach the age of 20 are too old to fetch a good price. The youngest victims,
some just 11 and 12, are sold for as much as $30,000, others for as little as
$2,000. "The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it's like the trade in
cattle," Hinda says. "I've seen mothers
haggle with agents over the price of their daughters." (See pictures of
Iraq since the fall of Saddam.) The trafficking
routes are both local and international, most often to Syria, Jordan and the
Gulf (primarily the United Arab Emirates). The victims are trafficked
illegally on forged passports, or "legally" through forced
marriages. A married female, even one as young as 14, raises few suspicions
if she's travelling with her "husband." The girls are then divorced
upon arrival and put to work. (See Iraq's return to "normalcy".) Aid sought for nations with Iraqi refugees Shafika Mattar,
The Associated Press AP, 07/26/2007 www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_6465715 [accessed 31 May 2011] Amnesty said it
visited Children lured into drugs and prostitution UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=70094 [accessed 31 May 2011] GLUE SNIFFING - Sami Rubaie, 12, lives on the streets of "I cry every
time a man has sex with me and they usually hit me because I am crying. After
I do it, my boss gives me a good quantity of glue and around US $3 dollars
for food. I know what I'm doing is wrong but it's better than living with
daily beatings from my father for not bringing him enough money," Sami
said. Western civilisation?
The Unspoken Fate of Iraqi Children Hussein Al-alak,
Global Research, January 13, 2007 www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=AL-20070113&articleId=4443 [accessed 31 May 2011] August 2005 saw a
report published by the Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN),
which brought to light the growth of child prostitution, under the new
liberated The report states
that extreme poverty has lead to an increase in gangs, who are going around
and kidnapping children and forcing them into the sex trade, where hard
currencies can be exchanged for the degradation of a young persons body. Focus on Boys
Trapped in Commercial Sex Trade UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, August 8, 2005 www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/167/35567.html [accessed 13 February 2011] A 16-year-old boy
has started a desperate new life since being forced into the sex trade in Unveiling Joshua E.S. Phillips, salon.com, Jun 24, 2005 www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/24/prostitutes [accessed 31 May 2011] The story of a
Sunni girl from Fallujah selling herself in a Voices of Resistance: Women Speak Out –
Interview Azza Basarudin
& Khanum Shaikh
Interview Amal Al-Khedairy
& Nermin Al-Mufti, Middle East Women’s Studies
Review, Vol. Xviii, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall 2003/Spring 2004, pp. 1-3, 15 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] One of the impacts
of wars and sanctions has been a rapid increase in prostitution in 5.1 Middle East - State of November 21, 2000 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 May 2011] While
Commercial sexual
exploitation of children - Middle East/ This summary is based on the situation
analysis written by Dr Najat
M’jid for the Arab-African Forum against Commercial
Sexual Exploitation, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 31 May 2011] These countries
also have in common, however, a number of constraints that have hindered
preparation of national plans of action. In all the countries of the region,
there is cultural resistance to addressing the problem because the subject is
largely taboo. Often the issue is
dealt with more generally under headings such as ‘violence’ and ‘trauma’. This means that there has been no regional
consensus on defining CSEC in law; in some countries, for example, it is
looked upon as an indecent act, in others as rape, although in all 20
countries there is some section of the penal code that can be invoked against
sexual abuse and exploitation. All
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