C S E C The Commercial Sexual
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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Macau. Some of these
links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated,
misleading or even false. No attempt
has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
this page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of
particular interest to you. You might
be interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and
how some succeed in leaving. Perhaps
your paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their
leaving. Other factors of interest
might be poverty, rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction,
hunger, neglect, etc. On the other hand,
you might choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who
control this activity. There is a lot
to the subject of Child Prostitution.
Scan other countries as well as this one. Draw comparisons between activity in
adjacent countries and/or regions.
Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims Judiciary Police ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** ECPAT Regional
Overview: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in East and
South-East Asia [PDF] ECPAT International,
2014 [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 poverty and inequality, migration,
armed conflicts, natural disasters and displacement, and traditional
practices. 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/china/macau/ [accessed 3
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law specifically provides for criminal punishment
for sexual abuse of children and students, statutory rape, and procurement
involving minors. The criminal code sets 14 years as the age of sexual
consent. The law forbids procurement for prostitution of a person younger
than age 18. The law also prohibits child pornography. The government
generally enforced these laws effectively, but there were concerns about the
participation of minors in sex work. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 30 September 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/china2005.html [accessed 19
February 2011] [6] While noting
with appreciation the State party’s signature of the Memorandum of
Understanding against Human Trafficking in the Mekong Sub-region in October
of 2004, the Committee is concerned at the absence of a plan of action to
combat trafficking and sexual exploitation applicable either to the mainland
or the Macau SAR. [8] The Committee
regrets the limited statistical data on sexual exploitation and cross-border
trafficking included in the State party’s report, both with regard to
mainland China and the Macau SAR . It is further concerned that the data
refer almost exclusively to the number of women and children rescued rather
than those abducted, and that data often refer to different time periods,
which hampers accurate assessment and monitoring of the situation regarding
the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography. [14] The Committee
is concerned at the limited information provided about services to assist
child victims with regard to reintegration and recovery on the mainland. It
is also concerned about the absence of assistance programs specifically
designed for child victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation in the
Macau SAR. ECPAT:
In Trafficking Case, Court Balks Again Brian Calvert, The
Cambodia Daily, 27 February 2002 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 June
2011] Tang Kim Min, 35,
is being held on charges related to human trafficking. The main witness
against him is an under-age Vietnamese girl, who says she survived an
intricate network of pimps, brokers and human smugglers - including Tang Kim
Min - who hustled her through Cambodia, southern China and eventually to Macau. Vietnam Trafficking The Factbook on
Global Sexual Exploitation, Donna M. Hughes, Laura Joy Sporcic,
Nadine Z. Mendelsohn, Vanessa Chirgwin, Coalition Against
Trafficking in Women, 1999 www.catwinternational.org/factbook/Vietnam.php [accessed 16 June
2011] Vietnamese
traffickers sell hundreds of women and children each year in Europe, China,
Cambodia and Macau, for
prostitution and arranged marriages. The Dark Side of
Casino Lights [access information
unavailable] Bolor said she hopes the
government will take measures against prostitution and to protect girls who
live on the street. She said that
street girls as young as 14 and 15 years-old are often trafficked to Macao,
Singapore and Malaysia. ***
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/2005/61605.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] MACAU
- CHILDREN -
The government protected the rights and welfare of children through the
general framework of civil and political rights legislation that protects all
citizens. For example, the law provides for criminal punishment for sexual
abuse of children and students, statutory rape, and procuring that involves
minors. All
material used herein reproduced under the fair use exception of 17 USC § 107
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