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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. ***
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- Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless Rebeccas Community -- This
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In ECPAT Country
Overview - A report on the scale, scope and context of the sexual
exploitation of children [PDF] Andrea Varrella, ECPAT International, February 2019 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/ECO_Italy_FINAL_6February2019.pdf [accessed 31 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Italy.
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/italy/ [accessed 31 August
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - Authorities enforced laws prohibiting sexual
exploitation, the sale of children, offering or procuring a child for
prostitution, and practices related to child pornography. Independent
observers and the government estimated at least 5,000 foreign minors were
victims of sexual exploitation. On April 3, a Bari court convicted two men
respectively to six year and six months and five years and six months in
prison for exploiting at least four minors as sex workers between 2010 and 2017.
According to the Department of Equal Opportunity, the number of assisted
minor victims of trafficking increased from 199 in 2017 to 215 in 2018. There were reports
of child pornography. On June 21, the Postal Police (under the National
Police) announced an operation conducted in 10 regions to dismantle a network
responsible for exchanging and selling pornographic material showing minors
online and using two WhatsApp groups to entice new victims. Authorities
investigated 51 persons. In 2018 Postal Police reported 532 persons allegedly
involved in child sexual abuse or sexual exploitation, of whom
43 were arrested. Save the Children
Italy reported 263 minors were victims of labor exploitation and
approximately 2,210 minors were victims of child trafficking, mostly for
sexual exploitation, in five of the country’s 20 regions. The minimum age for
consensual sex is 14 or 13 if the partner is under the age of 18 and the age
gap is less than three years. 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] ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - ITALY [PDF] 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 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61655.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] 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. All material
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