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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 Sexual
Violence Center Cork ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** The
Protection Project - The Paul H. www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/ireland.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - As many as 40
children a year are being trafficked to ***
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 1 June
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 - Report on
the scale, scope and context of the sexual exploitation of children [PDF] Adaiana Souza Lima, ECPAT International, November 2018 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/ECO_IRELAND_2018.pdf [accessed 25 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Ireland.
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/ireland/ [accessed 31 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the sexual exploitation of children
and child pornography, and authorities enforced the law. Conviction of
trafficking of children and taking a child from home for sexual exploitation
carries a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. A person convicted of meeting
a child for the purpose of sexual exploitation faces a maximum penalty of 14
years’ imprisonment. The Criminal Law (Sexual Offenses) Act sets a maximum
fine of 5,000 euros ($5,500) and includes new offenses relating to child
sexual grooming and child pornography. The minimum age for consensual sex is
17. The law provides
for a fine of up to 31,000 euros ($34,100), a prison sentence of up to 14
years, or both for a person convicted of allowing a child to be used for
pornography. For producing, distributing, printing, or publishing child
pornography, the maximum penalty is 5,000 euros ($5,500), 12 months’
imprisonment, or both. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) [DOC] UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 29 September 2006 www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/898586b1dc7b4043c1256a450044f331/8d69692f4788b109c125725d002ff0c6/$FILE/G0645074.doc [accessed 14
February 2011] [74] While noting the Sex
Offenders Act of 2001 that provides with a comprehensive protection of the
public against sex offenders, the Committee is concerned about the lack of
information concerning children victims of prostitution and on child
pornography. [76] While noting the
Child Trafficking and Pornography Act of 1998 and the 2006Trafficking in
Persons and Sexual Offences Bill, the Committee regrets the lack of specific
information on the situation of children victims of abduction and sale or
traffic for any purpose or in any form. Man dies over child
sex case - Child prostitution suspect may have committed suicide John Mooney, The
Sunday Times ( www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/ireland/article4365058.ece [accessed 1 June
2011] Cases of child prostitution
are rare in “We know that young
girls, particularly teenagers from immigrant communities who arrive in
Ireland unaccompanied, are getting involved in prostitution,” said Caroline
O’Sullivan, the ISPCC’s director of services. “This case yet again proves
that child prostitution is happening and we urgently need new laws to protect
youngsters who are vulnerable. Trafficking task
force targets child sex trade Independent.ie,
October 07 2007 www.independent.ie/national-news/trafficking-task-force--targets-child-sex-trade-1116979.html [accessed 14
February 2011] Children who are
forced to work as prostitutes or in the illegal labour market will be the top
priority of the joint Irish/British crackdown on human trafficking launched
last week - htcp State in
child-trafficking risk – ISPCC Aoife Carr, 17
November 2006 -- Source:
www.ireland.com/newspaper/breaking/2006/1117/breaking43.htm [Long
URL] [accessed 1 June
2011] 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 – Report by Special
Rapporteur - 2003 [DOC] U.N. 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 14
February 2011] [48] Factbook
on Global Sexual Exploitation Donna M. Hughes,
Laura Joy Sporcic, Nadine Z. Mendelsohn, Vanessa Chirgwin, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, 1999 www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/ireland.htm [accessed 1 June
2011] Most male
prostitutes come from Homelessness—Prostitution
Legalisation? A-Infos News Service, Workers Solidarity, No 56, March 1999 www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/61/290.html [accessed 1 June
2011] Juvenile
prostitution is directly linked to homelessness. A new report by Focus Minister
O'Donnell Addresses Irish Government Sponsored Conference on Child
Prostitution and Pornography in Department of
Foreign Affairs DFA, Press Release, 17/09/1999 www.foreignaffairs.irlgov.ie/home/index.aspx?id=26734 [accessed 1 June
2011] Legislation passed
in ***
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/2005/61654.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
- The
law prohibits the trafficking and sexual
exploitation of children; however, there were reports that such
practices occurred. TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The country might be a destination country on a limited scale for
trafficking in women and children. The country may also be a transit point
for persons trafficked to or from Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 23 January 1998 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/ireland1998.html [accessed 28
February 2011] [5] The Committee
commends the numerous efforts and concrete measures taken by the State party
to protect children from sexual exploitation, including sex tourism. The
Committee also especially welcomes the enactment of the Sexual Offences
(Jurisdiction) Act of 1996 and the drafting of the Child Trafficking and
Pornography Bill of 1997, which, inter alia, awards jurisdiction to domestic
courts to prosecute citizens and/or residents who engaged in child sex
tourism abroad as well as those who organize and publicize child sex tourism
in the State party. All
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