C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** The
Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/lesotho.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - A high
percentage of persons in prostitution in *** ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Regional
Overview: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Africa [PDF] ECPAT International,
November 2014 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Regional%20CSEC%20Overview_Africa.pdf [accessed 2
September 2020] Maps sexual
exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child sexual
exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes, sexual
exploitation of children through prostitution, and child early and forced
marriage (CEFM). Other topics include gender inequality, armed conflicts,
natural disasters, migration, and HIV/AIDS. 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/lesotho/ [accessed 2
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law sets the minimum age for consensual sex at
18. Anyone convicted of an offense related to the commercial sexual exploitation
of children is liable to not less than 10 years’ imprisonment. Child
pornography carries a similar sentence. An antitrafficking
law criminalizes trafficking of children or adults for the purposes of sexual
or physical exploitation and abuse. Offenders convicted of trafficking
children into prostitution are liable to a fine of two million maloti
($139,000) or life imprisonment. The death penalty may be applied if an
HIV-positive perpetrator is convicted of knowingly infecting a child.
Authorities generally enforced the law. For additional information, see
Appendix C. 2018 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 2
September 2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 720] The Lesotho Population-based
HIV Impact Assessment reported in 2017 that the HIV rate in adults (ages
15–59) was 25.6 percent, the second-highest HIV rate in adults worldwide. (5,11) Many children in Lesotho become orphans due to the
high rate of HIV among adults and are vulnerable to trafficking. (1,2,9,12-14) Children, mostly orphans driven by poverty,
migrate from rural to urban areas to engage in commercial sexual
exploitation. (9) 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/lesotho2001.html [accessed 18
February 2011] [57] The absence of
adequate information, including disaggregated statistical data, on the
situation of sexual exploitation of children, is a matter of concern for the
Committee. The Committee is concerned, further, that young girls in
particular are vulnerable to sexual exploitation in Five Years After
Stockholm [PDF] 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 – ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/lesotho.htm [accessed 18 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 - Commercial sexual exploitation of children is
reportedly a growing problem in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61576.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] CHILDREN
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Child prostitution was a problem. According to media reports, young girls and
boys, many of whom were orphans, moved to urban areas to work as prostitutes.
A 2001 UNICEF assessment concluded that child prostitution in the country was
a poverty‑driven phenomenon rather than a commercial enterprise and
that the financial arrangements were casual and not the product of organized
criminal syndicates. However, UNICEF and the government agreed that while the
numbers remained small, the trend toward commercial prostitution by children
under age 18 was a growing problem in the country. It was believed that the
incidence of prostitution was growing, and the average age of commercial sex
workers was dropping; however, there was no evidence of third party
participation. Child sex workers (including child prostitutes) worked by
themselves for economic reasons. There is little capability within either the
police force or the Department of Social Welfare to address the needs of
children likely to engage in prostitution. All
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