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situation in Maldives. Some of these links may lead to websites that present
allegations that are unsubstantiated, misleading or even false. No attempt
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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
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ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Regional
Overview: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in South Asia [PDF] ECPAT International,
November 2014 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Regional%20CSEC%20Overview_South%20Asia.pdf [accessed 3
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 child labour,
poverty and inequality, armed conflicts, natural disasters and displacement,
migration, HIV/AIDS, and traditions. 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/maldives/ [accessed 3
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The Child Rights Protection Act ratified in November
prohibits using, procuring, and offering children for pornographic
performances. The crime is punishable by imprisonment of five to 25 years.
The act stipulates that a child between ages 13 and 18 involved in a sexual
act is deemed not to have given consent, “unless otherwise proven.” The law
also treats the prostitution of children by a third party as a form of human
trafficking with exploitation under the Prevention of Human Trafficking Act,
subject to a 15-year maximum sentence. The penal code allows the Prosecutor
General’s Office to lodge multiple charges against a perpetrator for a single
offense. For sex trafficking, this means the office can file charges for
human trafficking under the Prevention of Human Trafficking Act and for
prostitution under the Child Rights Protection Act and aggregate the
penalties so perpetrators serve longer sentences for a single offense. During
the year the MPS investigated six cases of child pornography, and forwarded
two for prosecution as of July. It also investigated two reports of child
prostitution, but closed both after finding no evidence of any prostitution.
The Ministry of Gender, Family, and Social Services received two reports of commercial
sexual exploitation of children as of July. The Ministry and NGOs reported
that, although there have been no confirmed reports of child sex tourism, government authorities lack the capacity to
monitor the guesthouse tourism sector in remote islands. 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 3
September 2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 757] No current data are
available on child labor in Maldives, and a national survey on child labor
has not been conducted. Maldivian children from the outer islands are brought
to the capital, Malé, for domestic work. Some of
these children are reported to be victims of forced labor and sexual abuse.
(2) In addition, some girls from Bangladesh and Maldives are trafficked for
commercial sexual exploitation to Maldives. (2) There also are some reports
of foreign tourists engaging in commercial sexual exploitation of children.
(3) In 2018, the MPS
conducted awareness-raising programs for 36 guesthouse operators and resort
managers on protecting children from commercial sexual exploitation within
the tourism industry. (6,18) However, Family and
Child Services centers and shelters lack adequate financial and human
resources, and staff are inadequately trained to deal with cases involving
abused and exploited children. (14) In addition, research was unable to
determine what activities were undertaken during the reporting period to implement
existing social programs. These programs also do not specifically address the
commercial sexual exploitation of children, use of children for drug
trafficking, or forced labor in domestic work. The Protection
Project - The The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/maldives.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS
OF TRAFFICKING AND FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE
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