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FEATURED ARTICLE *** 6,000 children smuggled to the west each year for sex Philip Willan in www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jul/12/internationalcrime [accessed 15 February 2011] Researchers have identified
north-eastern There is a particularly high
concentration of juvenile sex slaves in the area between Padua and Venice,
with 20% of prostitutes under the age of 18, compared to 5% in other Italian
cities, the charity said. Last year 250 girls managed to escape from
their exploiters and seek assistance from the Italian state. ***
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 Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - ECPAT International, 2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-ITALY.pdf [accessed 2 June 2011] Poverty and socio-economic
disadvantage are strong causal factors associated with the prostitution of
children in Italy is a country of destination
and of transit for girls trafficked for sexual purposes mainly from Nigeria
and eastern European countries such as Albania, Romania, Moldova, Bulgaria
and Ukraine. Very often they are deceived with promises of well-paid jobs and
forced into prostitution by criminal groups on arrival. Prostitution occurs
mainly on the streets, in the case of Nigerian girls, and in flats, in the
case of girls from other countries (rarely in night clubs). To prevent
detection by the authorities, most exploiters keep moving the girls to other
parts of town or to different towns. They also ‘sell’ or ‘rent’ them to other
exploiters. The prostitution of boys of foreign
origin also occurs in the country. It occurs mainly outdoors, especially in
railway stations, and usually involves 13 to 17 year-old boys, mostly
Romanians from the Roma community, but also a minority from North Africa, the
Balkans and Albania. Although apparently widespread, this particular
manifestation of the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) is
very much overlooked by the authorities and child rights organisations.
Lack of recognition of the problem may be explained by the fact that most of
the boys arrive in Italy unaccompanied and seeking employment, rather than as
trafficked children or children who have fallen victim to sex rings or pimps.
Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61655.htm [accessed 14 February 2011] CHILDREN - NGOs estimated that 8 to 10 percent
of prostitutes were minors. An independent research center estimated that
there were between 1,800 and 3,000 minors who worked as street prostitutes, of whom 1,500 to
2,300 were trafficked into the country and forced into prostitution. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 31 January 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/italy2003.html [accessed 14 February 2011] [37] The Committee welcomes the
establishment of a National Commission for the coordination of action
regarding maltreatment, abuse and sexual exploitation of children and the
adoption of a global strategy. [49] The Committee welcomes the
adoption of Act 269/98 against the exploitation of prostitution, pornography,
and sexual tourism targeting children and the establishment of an
Inter-Ministerial Committee for the Coordination of the Government Action
Against Child Abuse and Trafficking in Minors and Women for Sexual Purposes.
Nevertheless, the Committee remains concerned at the numbers of children who
are trafficked for sexual purposes in the State party. Italian police break up child prostitution network Radio At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 June 2011] Italian police have made scores of
arrests and rolled up a child prostitution network. Fifty-one people were
arrested in Italy and 15 in other countries, mainly the Netherlands. They are
accused of human trafficking, exploitation and kidnapping. In Nigeria,
Nigerian women took very young children from orphanages to work in the drug
trade and as prostitutes. The children are also believed to have been taken
from asylum centres in the Netherlands. The police
operation began in October 2007 when, at the request of the Dutch government,
22 Nigerians were detained in Nigeria, various European countries and the US. 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 – Stephan Faris, Womens enews WEnews, August 15, 2002 [accessed 2 June 2011] Sex Trafficking of Girls Is a
'Family Issue' - Often it is a girl's parent who seeks out a trafficker and
requests that she be sent to Country Information Terre des Hommes via its
Internet platform against sexual exploitation of children in tourism
www.child-hood.com www.child-hood.com/index.php?id=727&type=6&type=6 [accessed 2 June 2011] COMMERCIAL
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN TOURISM - it is the introduction in the prostitution market of
underage girls coming from Child Prostitution Shadow Villanueva, Founder- Darkness Against Child Abuse www.magickalshadow.com/daca/chlidprostitution.html [accessed 2 June 2011] FEBRUARY
2000 - US Dept of
State report says that prior to 1999, of the 2,500 child street prostitutes
in World News Snapshots Assembled by Frank L. Fitzpatrick, The Survivor Activist,
the newsletter of Survivor Connections, Inc At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 2 June 2011] 6,000 children smuggled to the west each year for sex Philip Willan in www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/jul/12/internationalcrime [accessed 15 February 2011] Researchers have identified
north-eastern There is a particularly high
concentration of juvenile sex slaves in the area between Padua and Venice,
with 20% of prostitutes under the age of 18, compared to 5% in other Italian
cities, the charity said. Last year
250 girls managed to escape from their exploiters and seek assistance from
the Italian state. All material used herein
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