C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims AFESIP ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** The
Protection Project - Country Report [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/laos.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - In ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Helen Breese, ECPAT International, 2017 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A4A-Laos_2017_Final-1.pdf [accessed 2
September 2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Lao PDR.
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/laos/ [accessed 2
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The age of consensual sex is 15. The law does not
provide penalties specifically for child prostitution, but the penalty for
sex with a child (defined as younger than age 15) is one to five years’
imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 to three million kip ($57 to $340). The
law does not include statutory rape as a crime distinct from sex with a child
or rape. Authorities did not treat child pornography differently from
pornography in general, for which the penalty is three months to one year in
prison and a fine of 50,000 to 200,000 kip ($5.65 to $22.60). The country was a
destination for child sex tourism. The government continued efforts to reduce
demand for commercial sex through periodic raids and training workshops. The
government and NGOs hosted seminars to train tourism-sector employees and
provided many major international hotels in Vientiane and Luang
Prabang with posters warning against child sex
tourism. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 10 October 1997 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/laos1997.html [accessed 17
February 2011] [27] The Committee
is concerned by the increasing phenomenon of child prostitution and
trafficking, which affects boys as well as girls. It is worried about the
insufficiency of measures to prevent and combat this phenomenon, and the lack
of rehabilitation measures. 47 Laotian women
rescued from Thai prostitution dens [DOC] Associated Press AP,
www.no-trafficking.org/content/Country_Pages_LaoPDR/laopdr_pdf/47
laotian women rescued from thai
prostitution dens2.doc [accessed 17
February 2011] Thai police on
Wednesday raided two karaoke bars in a province near The women rescued
from the bars in Chachoengsao province, 30
kilometers (19 miles) east of the capital, included eight girls under age 18,
said police Col. Kraibun Songsuat.
He said the bars' operators had kept the doors to the bars locked to keep the
women from escaping. 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 – ECPAT:
Acknowledgment & Prevention ECPAT International At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 June
2011] In 1999, the
Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare carried out research on sexually
exploited and sexually abused children in urban areas of 4 provinces. This research was considered an important
step as the problem of CSEC in Trafficking
of Women and Children in Child Workers in At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 June
2011] THE
SITUATION IN Fight Child Prostitution By Curbing Demand – Groups Marwaan Macan-Markar,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.aegis.com/news/ips/2004/IP041105.html [accessed 12 June
2011] MORE
LOCAL THAN FOREIGN CLIENTELE - In neighboring Transnational
and Cross-Sectoral Cooperation UNIFEM At one time this article
had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 June
2011] EXAMPLE
7 - A
Memorandum of Understanding between the governments of Examples
Of Measures Taken By The Corporate Sector To Help Stop Child Prostitution UNIFEM At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 June
2011] Starting in 2002,
training sessions were organized for Accor hotel staff in UN Commission on
Human Rights, Fifty-fifth session, 27 January 1999 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 June
2011] [37] Child
involvement in commercial sex is not very apparent in Thematic
Reports E/CN.4/1999/71,
para. 9 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 June
2011] SPECIAL
RAPPORTEUR ON THE SALE OF CHILDREN, CHILD PROSTITUTION, CHILD PORNOGRAPHY - The report notes
that the situation of children who are at risk or are victims of commercial
sexual exploitation or trafficking is, for most purposes, usually considered
under the more general category of "Children in especially difficult
circumstances". Children identified as being in such circumstances are
those: with narcotic addictions; who have dropped out of school; with
"bad behavior"; who have committed acts of theft; beggars; working
as waitresses in nightclubs; in prostitution; and others with
"difficulties". Millions Suffer in
Sex Slavery United Press
International UPI, Chicago, April 24, 2001 www.angelfire.com/space2/light11/women/sexslave2people.html [accessed 31 January
2015] [search document for
the following text … ] Statistical
estimates indicate 300,000 women have been sold into the sex trade in Western
Europe in the last 10 years, and since 1990, 80,000 women and children from
Myanmar (formerly Burma), Cambodia, Laos
and China have been sold into Thailand's sex industry. New weapons against
child trafficking in Asia The Magazine Of The Ilo: World Of Work No. 19, March 1997 www.ageofconsent.com/comments/numberthirteen.htm [accessed 17
February 2011] In recent years,
large numbers of children from ***
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/2005/61614.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN - Trafficking in
girls for prostitution and
forced labor was a problem. Other forms of child labor generally were
confined to family farms and enterprises. All
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