C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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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/70094/iraq-children-lured-into-drugs-and-prostitution [accessed 13 March
2015] 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. Focus
on Boys Trapped in Commercial
Sex Trade UN Integrated Regional
Information Networks IRIN, August 8, 2005 www.irinnews.org/report/25350/iraq-focus-on-boys-trapped-in-commercial-sex-trade [accessed 13 March
2015] A 16-year-old boy
has started a desperate new life since being forced into the sex trade in Iraq's Unspeakable
Crime: Mothers Pimping Daughters 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 *** ECPAT - Report on
the scale, scope and context of the sexual exploitation of children [PDF] Sunethra Sathyanarayanan, ECPAT International, March 2019 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Iraq-ECPAT-International-Country-Overview-Report-2019.pdf [accessed 25 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Iraq,
Middle East. The overview gathers existing publicly available information on
sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child
sexual exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes,
sexual exploitation of children through prostitution, child early and forced
marriage (CEFM) and identifies gaps, research needs, and recommendations. 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/iraq/ [accessed 31 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits commercial sexual exploitation,
sale, offering or procuring for prostitution, and practices related to child
pornography. Child prostitution was a problem, as were temporary marriages,
particularly among the IDP population. Because the age of legal criminal responsibility
is nine in the areas administered by the central government and 11 in the
IKR, authorities often treated sexually exploited children as criminals
instead of victims. Penalties for commercial exploitation of children range
from fines and imprisonment to the death penalty. No information was
available regarding the effectiveness of government enforcement. 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 31 August
2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 641] Throughout the country,
some girls were subjected to commercial sexual exploitation through temporary
marriages. (25) This practice involves a dowry paid to the girl’s family and
an agreement to dissolve the marriage after a predetermined length of time.
(38) Syrian girls from refugee camps in the Kurdistan region were sometimes
forced into early or temporary marriages with Iraqi or other refugee men;
some KRG authorities allegedly ignored, or accepted bribes to ignore such
cases, including those in which girls are sold multiple times. (25) NGOs
reported in 2018 that women and girls in IDP camps, whose family members have
alleged ties to ISIS, continued to endure a complex system of sexual
exploitation, sex trafficking, and abuse by armed actors residing in the
camps, security and military officials, and camp personnel controlling access
to humanitarian assistance and services. Iranian girls were subjected to
commercial sexual exploitation in the Kurdistan Region and Iraqi girls were
trafficked to other Arab states in the region and to Europe for commercial
sexual exploitation. (4) Child laborers were also exposed to sexual violence
and abuse. (12) 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. 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 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] www.globalpolicy.org/component/content/article/167/35636.html [accessed 10
November 2016] 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 Iraq and how children as young as thirteen have become victims of
this sexual tyranny, which the West has brought to these children’s doors. 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. Unveiling Iraq's
Teenage Prostitutes 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. ***
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/2005/61689.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] 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. All
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