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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Protection Project Country Report [DOC] The Paul H. www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/mauritius.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS
OF TRAFFICKING
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ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the
status of action against commercial exploitation of children - MAURITIUS [PDF] ECPAT International, 2007 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/AF/Global_Monitoring_Report-MAURITIUS.pdf [accessed 19 June 2011] According to a 2003
study conducted by the The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/mauritius.htm [accessed 20 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61582.htm [accessed 20 February 2011] CHILDREN
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Child prostitution was a problem, and the government targeted the practice as
a law enforcement and prevention priority. There were reports that some
schoolgirls, independent of third party involvement, engaged in prostitution
for spending money. TRAFFICKING IN
PERSONS
– There were reports that children were trafficked within the country for
child prostitution. There were reports that some schoolgirls worked in
conjunction with prostitution rings or family members. The government
continued a five-year action plan to combat child prostitution, and the Ministry
of Women, Child Development, and Family Welfare ran a hotline for reporting
cases of child prostitution. Government officials and agencies in the
Ministry of Women's Rights, in the Attorney General's office, and in the
police department sought ways to prevent and prosecute child prostitution.
NGOs and the government drop-in center provided shelters, counseling, and
education for victims of child prostitution. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
11 October 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/mauritius1996.html [accessed 1 March 2011] [18] The Committee
is concerned by the reported increase in child abuse, including infanticide,
domestic violence and child prostitution and the lack of adequate measures
for the psycho-social recovery of child victims of such abuse. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social,
and Cultural Rights, 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/esc/mauritius1996.html [accessed 19 September 2011] [245] The Committee
recommends an in-depth study and analysis of the situation of child abuse,
child prostitution, domestic violence against women, teenage pregnancy,
abortion, suicide, and alcohol and drug abuse, and of how the State party can
best protect and ensure the economic, social and cultural rights of the
population of Mauritius affected by those problems. In this regard, the State
party should, inter alia, initiate efforts to gather statistics and
other information relevant to the situation. Young boys sold for
sex www.defimedia.info/articles/6019/1/Young-boys-sold-for-sex/Page1.html [Last access date unavailable] The problem of
child prostitution in 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 Country Report [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/mauritius.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS
OF TRAFFICKING
- Prostitution is rampant in ECPAT: What Makes Children Vulnerable to
Sexual Exploitation? ECPAT International www.info-avec.org/en/content/view/35/5/ [accessed 15 September 2011] DISCRIMINATION
/ ETHNICITY
- In a study conducted in 2000 by the Ministry of Women, Family Welfare and
Child Development in Worst Forms of
Child Labour Convention, 1999 Report of the Committee of Experts on the
Application of Conventions and Recommendations [accessed 19 June 2011] ARTICLE 3 CLAUSE (b) - A second study in 2001, commissioned by UNICEF and the Ministry of Women’s Rights, Child Development and Family Welfare, which revealed that there are more than 2,600 children and 3,900 adults involved in prostitution. Based on the findings and recommendations of the report of the second study, a two-year National Plan of Action has been prepared by the Government focusing on the four recommendations made at the first world conference on CSEC held in Stockholm in 1996, namely: (i) coordination and cooperation; (ii) prevention; (iii) protection; and (iv) reintegration. List of issues to be taken up in connection
with the consideration of the second periodic report of the CRC/C/65/Add.35 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 15 September 2011] SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND
SEXUAL ABUSE
- Sexual exploitation of Children is covered mostly by the provisions of the
Child Protection Act and the Criminal Act. A study on Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children (CSEC) in Contemporary Forms Of Slavery Report of the Secretary-General on the
implementation of the Program of Action for the Prevention of the Sale of
Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, submitted pursuant to
Sub-Commission resolution 1998/19- 2003 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 June 2011] - It
is estimated that there are more than 2,600 children and 3,900 adults
involved in prostitution. (They come from both rural and urban
areas and form the main ethnic groups in -
The underlying causes of CSEC are broken families, sexual abuse within and outside
the family, early school dropouts, substance abuse and the negative influence
of the family environment and peers; -
Monthly income of the majority of the families of young victims of CSEC is
less than Rs 5,000; -
13.5 per cent of the children covered in the study had become child mothers,
over one third of them had had an abortion and 62.5 per cent of the children
had a family member or close relation working as a sex worker, in particular,
their own mother; - 96
per cent of young prostitutes engage in sexual relations at a very early age
of their life and many of them have had sex for the first time with their
boyfriends. More than 57 per cent of the children had their first sexual
experience in return for a gift or money; -CSEC takes place at nightclubs, hotels,
brothels, apartments/bungalows, residence of pimps or
pensions. Taxi drivers and hotel employees are involved in the
prostitution network and act as procurers for tourists. Mobile
phones are the means of communication for making arrangements from where
vulnerable children are spotted and recruited. It also appears
that the tentacles of the network extend to schools; -
The money paid to victims varies from Rs 400 per
hour or Rs 3,000 per day and Rs
700 to Rs 4,000 per night; -
The majority of clients are local people, although young prostitutes do have
foreign tourists as clients (19.8 per cent) and 20.5 per cent of the children
work under leaders, 51 per cent of whom are men; -
The majority of children involved in prostitution have been to school, but
more than 57 per cent of them dropped out of school at grade
6. This deprived them of opportunities of employment and
restricted their options in life; -There is a correlation between drug abuse and
prostitution. Over 25 per cent of the children had taken drugs at
some time or other and 12.5 per cent were in the habit of taking drugs; -
Symptoms of reproductive tract infection are quite common among child
victims. Certain vital facts about AIDS are unknown to children
and a sizeable section of them do not even know that AIDS is incurable. Consideration of
Reports submitted by States Parties under article 18 of the Convention on the
Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
[DOC] UN Convention on the Elimination of All
Forms of Discrimination against Women CEDAW, 19 January 2005 www.bayefsky.com/reports/mauritius_cedaw_c_mar_3_5_2004.doc [accessed 19 June 2011] Article 6: Exploitation of Women [2] Following the
findings of the CSEC report a High Level Steering Committee has been set up.
It is monitoring the implementation of a National Plan of Action (NPA) on the
Protection of Children against Sexual Abuse including Sexual exploitation of
Children in Mauritius, in order to eliminate CSEC and to protect CSEC victims
and ensure their recovery and integration in society. The NPA covers a 2-year
period, starting February 2003, and its objective is to ensure the protection
of children from any form of abuse as well as the creation of a conducive
environment within the family and the civil society. Consequently, the NPA is
based on the four components of the Agenda of Action Against CSEC adopted at All material used herein
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