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situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking for
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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
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resources that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims Tenaganita (NGO), in cooperation with the police 03 2697 3671 Country code: 60- ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Khmer girls'
trafficking ordeal Kylie Morris, BBC
News, Thai-Cambodian border, 2 June, 2005 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4599709.stm [accessed 20
February 2011] LOOKING FOR CASH - She and her
cousin were 16 years old when they decided, against their family's wishes, to
travel to "At first I
refused to have sex with men. Then I was beaten so badly I had to hide my
face for a month, until it healed. Then I was told again I would have to sleep
with the customers. I knew if I refused I would be beaten again. I had no
choice but to agree." – htcp ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT - Report on
the scale, scope and context of the sexual exploitation of children [PDF] Angharad Smith, Lydie Pak and Adaiana Souza Lima, ECPAT International, October 2019 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/ECPAT-Country-Overview-Research-Report-Malaysia-2019.pdf [accessed 25 August
2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in
Malaysia, Southeast Asia. The overview gathers existing publicly available information
on 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, child early
and forced marriage (CEFM) and identifies gaps, research needs, and
recommendations. 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/malaysia/ [accessed 3
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law outlaws pornography and states that a child is
considered a victim of sexual abuse if he or she has taken part as a
participant or an observer in any activity that is sexual in nature for the
purposes of a photograph, recording, film, videotape, or performance. In 2018
federal police reported detecting approximately 20,000 internet addresses in
the country uploading and downloading child pornography. Under the law the
minimum age for consensual, noncommercial sex is 16 for both boys and girls.
A conviction for trafficking in persons involving a child for the purposes of
sexual exploitation carries a punishment of three to 20 years’ imprisonment
and a fine. There is a special court for sexual crimes against children,
established to speed up trials which often took years to conclude. Child
prostitution existed, and a local NGO estimated in 2015 that 5,000 children
were involved in sex work in Kuala Lumpur and surrounding areas. Authorities,
however, often treated children engaged in prostitution as offenders or
undocumented immigrants rather than as victims. The government
focused on preventing sexual exploitation of children, including commercial
sexual exploitation. In August the king, on the advice of the government,
appointed Noor Aziah Mohd
Awal to be SUHAKAM’s commissioner for children in
order to resolve issues related to the protection of children. The law provides
for six to 20 years’ imprisonment and caning for persons convicted of incest. A child’s testimony
is acceptable only if there is corroborating evidence, which posed special
problems for molestation cases in which the child victim was the only
witness. Human trafficking
ring busted Deutsche Presse-Agentur (German Press Agency) DPA, www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=102933&version=1&template_id=45&parent_id=25 [accessed 20
February 2011] The victims, aged
14 to 17, were promised jobs in Jakarta as domestic workers, but were then
flown to West Kalimantan province on the Indonesian side of Borneo and taken
across the border into Malaysia, sometimes using false travel documents. – htcp 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 – MALAYSIA – Although Malaysia has been considered a trafficking
destination for women and children from other Southeast Asian countries,
evidence has emerged that Malaysian girls have also been trafficked for
sexual purposes. Child Prostitution
In Bernama, www.malaysianbar.org.my/bar_news/berita_badan_peguam/child_prostitution_in_malaysia_is_worrying_says_lawyer.html [accessed 16 June
2011] Stringent laws are
needed to stem the growing child prostitution in the country, the president
of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (Fida)
said Tuesday. " Statement
By Ambassador Jasmi Md. Yusoff,
Representative Of Permanent www.un.int/malaysia/GA/3Comm/3C29Oct99.html [accessed 16 June
2011] Sex
Industry Assuming Massive Proportions In International Labour
Organisation ILO News, www.ilo.org/global/about-the-ilo/press-and-media-centre/press-releases/WCMS_007994/lang--en/index.htm [accessed 16 June
2011] THE
CHILD VICTIMS OF PROSTITUTION - In Statistical
Dimension of Sexual Exploitation of Children Indian NGOs At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 16 June
2011] There are 43,000 to
142,000 or more prostituted persons 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/2005/61615.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] CHILDREN
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Child prostitution existed, but child prostitutes often were treated as
delinquents rather than victims. TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The government assisted some underage prostitutes and rescued some
trafficked women and girls during the year. All
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