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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Prostitution
In Fatoumata Sire Diakite, Founder and President of the Association pour le
Porgres et la Droits des Femmes Maliennes
in Mali, Published by The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, February
1999 -- ISBN 0-9670857-0-50 www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/mhvmali.htm [accessed 19 June 2011] In ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] The Luxembourg
Bureau of ECPAT, ECPAT International,
2017 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/A4A_V2_AF_MALI_ebook.pdf [accessed 3
September 2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Mali.
The report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive measures,
child and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes recommendations for
action against SEC. 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/mali/ [accessed 3
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the sexual exploitation of
children, including commercial sexual exploitation. Penalties for the sexual
exploitation of both adults and children are six months to three years in
prison and a fine of between 20,000 and one million CFA francs ($33 and
$1,661). Penalties for convicted child traffickers are five to 20 years in
prison. Penalties for indecent assault, including child pornography, range
from five to 20 years in prison. The country has a statutory rape law that
defines 18 as the minimum age for consensual sex. The law, which was
inconsistent with the legal minimum marriage age of 15 for girls, was not
enforced. Sexual exploitation of children occurred. The Division for
Protection of Children and Morals of the National Police conducted sweeps of
brothels to assure that individuals in prostitution were of legal age and
arrested brothel owners found to be holding underage girls. Between January
and April, 60 percent of the more than 1,000 victims of gender-based violence
(including rape, sexual assault, and physical and psychosocial violence) were
girls. 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 763] Although Mali
participates in some programs to reduce the worst forms of child labor, these
programs are insufficient to fully address the scope of the problem, especially
in artisanal gold mining, slavery, and debt bondage. (2) In addition, Mali
does not fund or participate in programs to address child labor in domestic
work, fishing, forced begging, and commercial sexual exploitation. (100) Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 8 October 1999 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/mali1999.html [accessed 20
February 2011] [35] The absence of
adequate information, including disaggregated statistical data, on the
situation with regard to the sexual exploitation of children, is a matter of
concern for the Committee. In the light of article 34 and other related
articles of the Convention, the Committee recommends that the State party
undertake studies with a view to designing and implementing appropriate
policies and measures, including care and rehabilitation, to prevent and
combat the sexual exploitation of children. It also recommends that the State
party reinforce its legislative framework to protect children fully from all
forms of sexual abuse or exploitation. 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 – Protection Project
- The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/mali.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS
OF TRAFFICKING
- Child trafficking for forced labor predominates in ECPAT International
Annual Report - July 2004 - June 2005 [PDF] ECPAT International At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 June
2011] [page 156] In Trafficking in
Children for Sexual Purposes LOOKING BACK
THINKING FORWARD - The fourth report on the implementation of the Agenda for
Action adopted at the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation
of Children held in At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 June
2011] WEST
AFRICA
- There have also been reports on the trafficking of children for sexual
purposes from ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT: Country
Report – www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/Country/ChildProstitution/Mali.html [Last access date
unavailable] The main cause
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