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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Prostitution Widespread in www.ilocarib.org.tt/projects/childlabour/news/newspaper_articles/2002/jobserver-21jul02.pdf [accessed 4 June 2011] Children, Some As Young As 10 And 11 Years Old, Are Engaged In Prostitution. Study listed nine categories of
children engaging in sex for gain and said they were pushed basically by lack
of economic support, love and affection. The first of the nine
categories listed was children living and working on the streets, mostly boys
between ages 12 and 18 Reasons for child prostitution Dave Campbell, Letter to the Editor, jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060617/letters/letters2.html [accessed 4 June 2011] Children are now seen as bread winners for some families, as the parents realise that people are more responsive to a child's cry for help. As a result of this, parents send
their children, especially females, to hustle for the family by engaging them
in sexual activities with older men, while subjecting them to both physical
and mental abuse which will later have a greater psychological effect on them
in life. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/jamaica.htm [accessed 15 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - A 2001 study funded by ILO-IPEC found that children as young as 10
years old are sexually exploited and engaged in prostitution, catering to
tourists. Young girls are hired by “go-go” clubs or massage parlors. Children
are trafficked internally for sexual exploitation and pornography. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61733.htm [accessed 15 February 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS - The
Child Care and Protection Act passed in 2004 specifically prohibits the sale
or trafficking of minors and provides that violators receive the maximum
penalty under the law. This law subjects convicted traffickers to a fine or
imprisonment with hard labor for a term not exceeding 10 years, or both. It
also provides that no person under the age of 18 years may be employed in a
night club. Although authorities raided some night clubs, police tended to
arrest victims of trafficking rather than owners of the clubs. There were few
if any convictions under this law. Authorities reported that very few
children had been found to be trafficking victims. The International Labor
Organization (ILO) estimated that several hundred minors were involved in the
country's sex trade. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 June 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/jamaica2003.html [accessed 15 February 2011] [54] The Committee is concerned at
the sexual exploitation and trafficking of children, including street
children, and the lack of accurate data and adequate laws and policies in
this regard. Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic,
Social, and Cultural Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural
Rights, 30/11/2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/esc/jamaica2001.html [accessed 19 September 2011] [13] The Committee is deeply
concerned about the lack of laws, policies or programs to address explicitly
the proliferation of sex tourism and its consequences, which include the
sexual exploitation and prostitution of women and children, and the spread of
sexually transmitted diseases. In particular, the Committee is alarmed that
school drop-out rates have increased as young girls are induced to leave
school to enter the sex trade, sometimes even with the consent and
encouragement of parents who benefit from their earnings. Gateways to exploitation Globe and Mail, Nov. 10, 2007 -- Source: ECPAT International www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/article796077.ece [accessed 4 June 2011] Companies involved in human trafficking Howard www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070428/lead/lead5.html [accessed 15 February 2011] "If you had asked me three or
four years ago, I would tell you that, 'Look, these things don't happen in EXPLOITING THE YOUNG - Using the sensational 'sale' of
a teenage girl by her parents to a man in St. Elizabeth as an example, Mr.
Nicholson said the exploitation of young boys and girls in Jamaica was
widespread. He warned that, under the law, not only persons who know of the
deed can be jailed. Reasons for child prostitution Dave Campbell, Letter to the Editor, jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060617/letters/letters2.html [accessed 4 June 2011] Children are now seen as bread
winners for some families, as the parents realise
that people are more responsive to a child's cry for help. As a result of this, parents send
their children, especially females, to hustle for the family by engaging them
in sexual activities with older men, while subjecting them to both physical
and mental abuse which will later have a greater psychological effect on them
in life. The paedophiles are here Martin jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060608/cleisure/cleisure2.html [accessed 4 June 2011] Whatever the law may wish to say
about age of consent, the majority of firstborns in this country have been
born to teen-age mothers, and a large proportion of these to mothers under
the age of consent. The age of first sex is well-documented to be in the
early teens. Transactional sex in a rich
variety of prostitutional commercial exchange, from
the onset of puberty, is a dominant feature of Jamaican culture. 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 – UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, June 22, 2005 www.unicef.org/jamaica/media_2097.htm [accessed 4 June 2011] The United Nations Children’s Fund
(UNICEF) Child Prostitution Widespread in www.ilocarib.org.tt/projects/childlabour/news/newspaper_articles/2002/jobserver-21jul02.pdf [accessed 4 June 2011] Children, Some As Young As 10 And
11 Years Old, Are Engaged In Prostitution. Study listed nine categories of
children engaging in sex for gain and said they were pushed basically by lack
of economic support, love and affection. The first of the nine
categories listed was children living and working on the streets, mostly boys
between ages 12 and 18 Violence Against Children in Dr. Joan Lesser, Dr. Marlene Cooper, and Yunena Morales, 30 minute Paper Presentation in English
at the Third International Conference On New Directions In Humanities, Humanities Conference 2005, h05.cgpublisher.com/proposals/549/index_html [accessed 4 June 2011] Within the last decade 22,000
youth were labeled "street children" who lived and worked in the
streets doing jobs such as machinery, welding, domestic work, care giving and newspaper delivery. Many turn to or are
forced into child prostitution and/or the drug trade in order to survive. My Parent And My Pimp
- Child prostitution in Jamaica Stephen-Claude Hyatt, jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20011206/cleisure/cleisure5.html [accessed 4 June 2011] What is not known is that there
are Prostitution In Paul Andrew Bourne, able2know, 2 Sep, 2005 [accessed 4 June 2011] COMMERCIAL SEX WORKERS - Street and working children are a
particularly vulnerable group to prostitution. These children lack family and
social support. (Dunn, 2001) posits that small boys between the ages of 6 and
17 years were most exploited. They did not have the protection of adult
family members or institutional environment for support and as such were
exposed to extreme economic deprivation and abuse. Those involved in sexual
activity were between 12 and 18 years. The majorities were from very poor
backgrounds and were out of school; although a few attended school regularly
Dunn, (2001). The Children Of Jamaica's Sex Trade [PDF] Jamaica Observer, June 26, 2005 www.ilocarib.org.tt/projects/childlabour/news/newspaper_articles/2005/jobserver-26jun05.pdf [accessed 14 September 2011] "In All material used herein
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