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Reports » 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41725.htm [accessed 1 March 2011] CHILDREN - There are a few unofficial homes for abused children
nominally run by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor. There are credible reports that some
caretakers abuse some of these children while they are living in these homes,
or that they are used for prostitution.
The conditions in these homes are reportedly very poor. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 9
October 1998 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/kuwait1998.html [accessed 1 March 2011] [31] The Committee
is concerned at the absence of data, information and comprehensive research
on the issue of sexual abuse and exploitation of children. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights UN COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND
CULTURAL RIGHTS CESCR, Thirty-second session, 26 April-14 May 2004 –
Distributed 7 June 2004 www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/%28Symbol%29/E.C.12.1.Add.98.En [accessed 29 August 2011] [41] The Committee
recommends that the State party take effective measures to combat trafficking
in persons, especially in women and children, by ensuring, inter alia,
that those responsible for trafficking are prosecuted, and to ratify the
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children, of 2001. The Committee recommends that the State party
establish support services for victims of trafficking and take steps to
sensitize law enforcement officials and the general public to the gravity of
this issue. 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 – A Step Forward - Report of the third year
following The World Congress against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children held in ECPAT International, September 1999 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 June 2011] No National Plan is
being developed in Slavery
of Children and women in Morteza Aminmansour,
Persian Journal, Jun 20, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 14 September 2011] Exact number of
victims is impossible to obtain, but according to an official source in UAE,
there has been increase in the number of teen-age girls in prostitution
(forced to work from 5.1 Middle East - State of ECPAT International, Looking Back, Thinking Forward, 1999 - 2000 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 June 2011] In the wealthy oil
producing states, (e.g. Commercial sexual
exploitation of children - Middle East/ based on the situation analysis written by Dr Najat M’jid
for the Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Rabat,
Morocco, 24-26 October 2001 -- Source document (in French): Rapport sur la situation de l’exploitation
sexuelle des enfants dans la région MENA, 10 septembre 2001 www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 10 June 2011] These countries
also have in common, however, a number of constraints that have hindered
preparation of national plans of action. In all the countries of the region,
there is cultural resistance to addressing the problem because the subject is
largely taboo. Often the issue is
dealt with more generally under headings such as ‘violence’ and
‘trauma’. This means that there has
been no regional consensus on defining CSEC in law; in some countries, for
example, it is looked upon as an indecent act, in others as rape, although in
all 20 countries there is some section of the penal code that can be invoked
against sexual abuse and exploitation. All
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