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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
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Scan other countries as well as this one. Draw comparisons between activity in
adjacent countries and/or regions.
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Panel Hears Grim
Details On Child Prostitution In Zvi Zrahiya
& Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz,
09.02.2004 www.haaretz.com/news/panel-hears-grim-details-on-child-prostitution-in-israel-1.113459 [accessed 2
June 2011] Over 1,000 minors
around the country are involved in prostitution, with their parent's
encouragement, the Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee heard Monday. Dorit Brightman of the ELEM Youth in Distress non-profit
organization told the committee that many of the minors are forced into
prostitution because of the dire economic situation, and some have even died
as a result. ***
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
Israel, call 1-800-65-4111 ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] ECPAT International,
2016 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Ex_Summary_Israel_FINAL.pdf [accessed 31 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Israel.
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/israel/ [accessed 31 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits sexual exploitation of a minor and
sets a penalty of seven to 20 years in prison for violators, depending on the
circumstances. The law prohibits the possession of child pornography (by
downloading) and accessing such material (by streaming). Authorities enforced
the law. The Ministry of Public Security operated a hotline to receive
complaints of activities that seek to harm children online, such as bullying,
dissemination of hurtful materials, extortion, sexual abuse, and pressure to
commit suicide. The minimum age for
consensual sex is 16. Consensual sexual relations with a minor between the
ages of 14 and 16 constitute statutory rape punishable by five years’
imprisonment. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 4
October 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/israel2002.html [accessed 28
February 2011] [60] The Committee
notes the establishment of an inter-ministerial and inter-organizational
committee to combat the commercial sexual exploitation of minors, its activities,
and the involvement of non-governmental organizations in this area. However,
the Committee is concerned that these and other efforts have so far had a
limited impact. Suspect in Tel Aviv
pedophile case ran child prostitution ring Yuval Goren, Haaretz, 27.01.2009 [accessed 2
June 2011] Police said Monday
that the main suspect used to stalk children and youths near clubs in Tel
Aviv, such as the TLV club at the Tel Aviv Port. When he detected youths with
sexual-identity issues he, "took them under his wing" and turned
them into prostitutes, a police source said, on the basis of gathered
testimonies. He pimped the youths to
pedophiles for NIS 200 at a time, the source said. The police Monday confronted the Internet
executive and the principle victim in the case, who turned 17 Tuesday.
Another minor, 14, told the detectives that the executive had been sexually
abusing him since he was 12 years old. 10% percent of
Israeli prostitutes are minors Ruth Eglash, The www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=108698 [accessed 2
June 2011] The age of those
being forced into the sex industry is rapidly falling, with more than 1,000
out of the estimated 10,000 prostitutes in These figures,
which are based on the findings of numerous non-governmental and official
sources, were presented Wednesday at a special session of the Knesset Sub-Committee
on Human Trafficking - headed by Meretz MK Zehava
Gal-On - focusing on a new Education Ministry initiative aimed at raising
awareness of the dangers of the sex industry in general and human trafficking
in particular among school-age children. TFHT's report also noted a new trend
of 13 and 14 year olds frequenting prostitutes. Earlier in the
session, the minister had referred to the rise in media reports of children,
some as young as 11 or 12, using cellphones to capture graphic sexual
incidents on camera and stories of teens pimping out their peers for cash. Tamir said that the goal of the program, which started
work six months ago, was to combat such incidents and to provide teachers
with the educational tools to raise awareness of right and wrong among teens. Israeli Project
Aids Teens, Young Prostitutes Brenda Gazzar, Womens enews WeNews, January 6, 2006 [accessed 2
June 2011] Natalee didn't
realize it then, but Fridman directs a therapeutic
rehabilitation program for adolescents engaged in prostitution run by the
nonprofit organization, Elem Youth in Distress in Five Years After 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 – ISRAEL – The Israeli Association for Social Care, Health and the
Solution of Conflict (IASC) has developed a project in which workers are
trained to counsel street children, many of whom are involved in
prostitution. However, IASC experienced some official administrative as well
as financial problems in the implementation of this project. Another major project has been implemented
by the organization ELEM-Youth. In January 2001 the pilot project “They Too
Have a Right to Blossom” officially began. In addition to learning about
CSEC, which is the primary focus of the program at this point, ELEM has
identified children who are currently involved in prostitution, and begun the
process of assisting them through referrals to community based youth services
for treatment. Mothers
pimping their daughters for food Gaon Boaz, Maariv, Feb. 29, 2004 www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message509882/pg1 [accessed 2
June 2011] theawarenesscenter.blogspot.com/2004/02/mothers-pimping-their-daughters-for-food.html [accessed 10
November 2016] Down-and-out women
come to the Beer Sheva market late at night to
scrounge for some pumpkin or marrow. Lacking shekels, they offer an alternative
form of payment, their teenage daughters. After providing sexual services in
some dark alley, daughters and mothers disappear into the night laden with
parcels of produce. Live & Learn -
Rehabilitating Israeli Youth www.learnandlive.org.il/ [accessed 9 May
2012] 40% of Israeli
youth live below the poverty line More than 70,000
Israeli youth are regular drug users. Israel has seen a
20% increase in drug-related crimes involving minors, as well as an increase
in violent incidents in schools. More than 25% of
homeless youth in Israel are female, with many drawn into the sex industry as
a means of survival. 5.1 Middle East -
State of 1999-2000 Looking
Back, Thinking Forward At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 June 2011] While
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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/2005/61690.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
- In
February 2004 ELEM, an NGO that assists troubled youth, estimated that more
than a thousand women younger than age 18 worked as prostitutes. All
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