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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Study Finds Many
Girls Selling Bodies to Pay for School UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, MONROVIA, 6 September 2005 www.irinnews.org/report/56186/liberia-study-finds-many-girls-selling-bodies-to-pay-for-school [accessed 13 March
2015] As many
as four out of five schoolgirls in war-scarred "In
the capital, Monrovia, an estimated 60 to 80 percent of teenage girls want an
education so much, they sell the only commodity they have -- their bodies --
to fund it," Save the Children said in its report published on
Monday. The charity said its
researchers uncovered the problem unexpectedly in the course of carrying out
their part of a wider global education survey. ***
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/liberia/ [accessed 2
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the commercial sexual exploitation
of children and child pornography, and authorities generally enforced the
law, although girls continued to be exploited, including in commercial sex in
exchange for money, food, and school fees. Additionally, sex in exchange for
grades was a pervasive problem in secondary schools, with many teachers
forcing female students to exchange sexual favors for passing grades. The
minimum age for consensual sex is 18. Statutory rape is a criminal offense
that if convicted has a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. The penalty
for conviction of child pornography is up to five years’ imprisonment.
Orphaned children remained especially susceptible to exploitation, including
sex trafficking. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 4 June 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/liberia2004.html [accessed 14 June
2011] [62] The Committee
shares the State party’s concern about the prevalence of child prostitution, particularly
in urban areas, and is further concerned at the lack of data thereon. 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 – When ‘Peacekeeping’
Equals Rape Suki, The American
Chronicle, November 13, 2006 www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=10186&pst=706104 [accessed 13
Aug 2013] [scroll down to
August 10, 2007 6:37 PM] The litany of this
sex horror goes on. Refugees International reports
that in Aid staff abusing
Liberian children, charity says David Fickling, The Guardian, 8 May 2006 www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/may/08/westafrica.davidfickling [accessed 14 June
2011] The Save the
Children report found that girls as young as eight were selling sex for items
such as food, beer, clothing, perfume or mobile phones. Others were
reported as having sex with adults in return for good school grades, video
screenings or rides in cars. MANO RIVER UNION:
Reports That Child Refugees Sexually Exploited Shock Annan UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, [accessed 13 March
2015] GUINEA-LIBERIA-SIERRA_LEONE Refugee children in
The Experience of
Refugee Children in UN High Commissioner
for Refugees UNHCR and Save the Children-UK, February 2002 www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/sexual_violence_and_exploitation.pdf [accessed 14 June
2011] This assessment
was initiated by UNHCR and Save the Children-UK (SC-UK) due to growing
concerns, based on their field experience, about the nature and extent of
sexual violence and exploitation of refugee children and other children of
concern to UNHCR in the countries of the Mano River Sub Region in ***
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/2005/61577.htm [accessed 9 February
2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– NGO estimates of the number of persons trafficked to the country during the
year ranged between 20 and several hundred. Victims were trafficked within
the country and from neighboring countries for prostitution and labor. Young
children were at a particularly high risk for trafficking, especially orphans
or children from extremely poor families. All
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