C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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how some succeed in leaving. Perhaps
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leaving. Other factors of interest
might be poverty, rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction,
hunger, neglect, etc. On the other hand,
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Prostitution in Jury Kalikov, Central European University International Policy
Fellowship Program, Open Society Institute, March 30, 2003 www.policy.hu/kalikov/LATVIA.html [accessed 12 June
2011] [scroll down] MINORS IN SEX WORK - Three surveys
can be used for the description of situation with minors in sex business in ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Farida Mussayeva, ECPAT International, 2017 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/A4A2017_EU_LATVIA_FINAL.pdf [accessed 2
September 2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Latvia. 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/latvia/ [accessed 2
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the commercial sexual exploitation
of children, the sale of children, offering or procuring a child for
prostitution, and practices related to child pornography. Authorities
generally enforced the law. Through September police initiated 92 criminal
proceedings for the sexual exploitation of minors younger than 16, a
12-percent drop from 2018. Through September the ombudsman received one
complaint of sexual violence against children. The purchase, display,
reproduction, or distribution of child pornography is punishable by up to
three years in prison. Involving a minor in the production of pornography is
punishable by up to 12 years in prison, depending on the age of the child.
The minimum age for consensual sex is 16. The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/latvia.htm [accessed 17
February 2011] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Statistics on the number of working children under
the age of 15 in Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the
Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 26 January 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/latvia2001.html [accessed 17
February 2011] [47] The Committee
notes with concern that prostitution is rapidly spreading among minors and
that the only rehabilitation programs available are short term. 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 – BBC News, 10 March,
2000 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/672588.stm [accessed 13 June
2011] PPAT-Estonia - Project for the Prevention of Adolescent
Trafficking in Estonia The International
Organization for Adolescents IOFA in collaboration with NGO Living for
Tomorrow, and AIDS-I Tugikeskus AIDS Information
& Support Center www.policy.hu/kalikov/DATABASE%20ESTONIA/PPAT-_Estonia.html [accessed 13 June
2011] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - At the Women
& Democracy Conference held June 2001 in The Incidence of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in
the The Baltic Sea
States Support Group, Prime Minister's Office • S-103 33, www.sasian.org/legal/baltic/baltic2.htm [accessed 13 June
2011] Although statistical
data on the issue of commercial sexual exploitation of children are lacking
in every country in the Baltic Sea Region, it is learned that in Reports to Treaty Bodies - Committee on the Rights of the Child
(CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 2001 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 June
2011] The Committee
recommended that the government implement the National Program for the
Prevention of Sexual Violence for 2000-2004, in particular its rehabilitation
and reintegration aspects; undertake a study of commercial sexual
exploitation and abuse of children in order to understand its scope and
causes and to develop programs for monitoring the problem and to prevent and
combat it. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights Reports
» 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61658.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Child prostitution remained a problem. During the year the police reported
that, due to the imposition of severe penalties for rape and sexual exploitation
of minors, the reported incidence of child prostitution sharply declined.
According to the police, previous estimates that 12 to 15 percent of
prostitutes were between the ages of 8 and 18 were exaggerated and during the
year noted that there were only a few reported cases. Nevertheless, legal
protections for offenses committed against children were rarely enforced in
the case of child prostitutes. All
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