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situation in ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Report by Special
Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and Social Council Commission
on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 13 June 2011] [52]
Children involved in prostitution are taken into custody by the internal
security forces and referred through the Department of Public Prosecutions
directly to a juvenile misdemeanors court. Children are normally
given custodial sentences of between three and six months. Females
serve their sentences in Ba’abda women’s prison but
have little access to rehabilitation facilities apart from a few activities
carried out in association with external organizations. Male
children are imprisoned in a juvenile facility at Rumiyyah
prison where they are separated from the men. Rehabilitation
programs including vocational training are run in the juvenile facility. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/lebanon.htm [accessed 17 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - It is common for children to earn
family income by working in the fields or begging in the streets. Non-Lebanese children constitute 10 to 20
percent of children working in the formal sector, but make up a larger share
of children working on the street.
There have been reported cases of child prostitution and other
situations that amount to forced labor.
Although Human Rights
Reports » 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41726.htm [accessed 1 March 2011] CHILDREN
- NGO's
throughout the country reported that child prostitution was a problem. The
authorities discovered and broke up three child prostitution rings. In two of
the cases, the perpetrators were charged with facilitation, in the third,
with child prostitution. At year's end, the cases were pending prosecution. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1
February 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/lebanon2002.html [accessed 1 March 2011] [58]
The Committee is concerned at the insufficient data on and awareness of the
phenomenon of sexual exploitation of children in Child prostitution still taboo, despite
laws UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportID=26170 [accessed 13 June 2011] "My parents
needed money so they sent me to work as a housemaid at the age of 12. Do you
know how much I had to put up with in my situation?" Nadine asked
rhetorically. “All men want is one thing – your body! So I decided to ask for
money in exchange for what I was offering.” 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 – LEBANON – Various NGOs have contributed not
only by raising awareness, but also by implementing policies and projects
aiming at assisting abused children, including victims of sexual abuse. The
NGO Dar el Amal has discussed the issue of sexual
exploitation of children with Save the Children Sweden and Save the Children
U.K. They have jointly taken the decision to set up a committee to develop
policies to assist abused children. The committee will be composed of the
Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the ILO, UNICEF and Dar el Amal. Additionally Dar el Amal
is coordinating various activities with the private and public sectors with
the aim of protecting children. Report by Special
Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and Social Council Commission
on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 13 June 2011] [52]
Children involved in prostitution are taken into custody by the internal
security forces and referred through the Department of Public Prosecutions
directly to a juvenile misdemeanors court. Children are normally
given custodial sentences of between three and six months. Females
serve their sentences in Ba’abda women’s prison but
have little access to rehabilitation facilities apart from a few activities
carried out in association with external organizations. Male
children are imprisoned in a juvenile facility at Rumiyyah
prison where they are separated from the men. Rehabilitation
programs including vocational training are run in the juvenile facility. 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 13 June 2011] While
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 13 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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