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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Prostitution of Nepalese girls rampant in Indian brothel webindia123.com, Kolkata, Nov
20, 2005 www.stopdemand.org/afawcs0112878/ID=146/newsdetails.html [accessed 23 February 2011] ''Young girls are trafficked from Child Hierodulic Servitude in Anti-Slavery Society www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/hieroras.htm [accessed 24 June 2011] Hierodulic child prostitution is a
generic term that the Society uses to describe religiously sanctioned child
prostitution, and, specifically, those children engaged in religious cult
prostitution. However, nowadays, this original purpose has gone and, after
dedication — usually at the age of 5 to 7 years of age — the child is often
deflowered by the priest and then sold to the highest bidder. Children remain easy prey for exploitation, violence The Rising www.gorkhapatra.org.np/detail.php?article_id=4809&cat_id=4 [accessed 24 June 2011] Street children are the most
vulnerable lot. Sexual abuse is hidden but a widely prevalent suffering among
them. No child is safe and away from this cauldron of suffering. Approximately 99 per cent of them are
physically and psychologically abused. Child sexual abuse may include
fondling a child’s genitals, masturbation, oral-genital contact, digital
penetration, and vaginal and anal intercourse. The other ways a child can be abused with
are direct physical contact, such as sex by exposures, voyeurism and child
pornography, use of obscene language, also referred to as non-contact abuse,
shows a research conducted jointly by CPSC NGO Nepal, CPCS INT Belgium and
VOC Nepal. Males are the predominant
perpetrators of sexual abuse against street children. On average, there are
three male abusers for every two female abusers. On an average, 40 per cent
of sexually abusive episodes are perpetrated by street-living children and
adults as well as 40 per cent by non-street living adults. Non street-living adults include relatives,
shop, hotel or restaurant owners and workers or any Nepali adult not living
on the street. The street is clearly the chief location for all types of
sexual abuses, accounting for one in three incidents occurring. – sccp ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - NEPAL [PDF] ECPAT International, 2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/South_Asia/Global_Monitoring_Report-NEPAL.pdf [accessed 24 June 2011] The work of various child focused organisations suggests that besides trafficking, there is
strong evidence of other forms of commercial sexual exploitation of boys and
girls in A study on child sex tourism (CST)
in Nepal (Kathmandu and Pokhara)
in 2003, showed that there were many incidences of foreign tourists/paedophiles exploiting children (particularly street
children and children from slum areas), who were lured by the promise of
money and gifts from tourists. Abuse took place in hotel rooms, restaurants,
secluded places and while trekking, etc. The study did not find any organised form of sex tourism existing in Nepal at that
time. The exact number of abuses was difficult to measure as most of the
contacts were made at individual level and therefore difficult to trace.
There were also numerous cases reported in the local newspapers of foreign
tourists keeping young boys and girls in their rented homes for long periods
of time where they were exploited sexually in exchange for shelter, food,
clothing and money. A study conducted in 2003 by Child
Workers In Nepal (CWIN) and Save the Children Norway on the sexual abuse of
children, revealed that with the exception of a few reported cases of rape,
the majority of cases of sexual exploitation among children go unreported due
to fear of the abusers and also due to the stigma associated with the issue
and reluctance to bring shame on the family. The study also showed that the
number of cases of sexual exploitation of both boys and girls not only by
strangers but by neighbours, teachers, family
friends, etc. is high. It further showed that there is limited understanding
of the non-contact forms of sexual exploitation such as exposure to obscene
language, pornographic materials, exhibitionism, and so on, therefore these
acts may not be viewed as sexual exploitation. It is important to note that more
than 50 per cent of the boy respondents admitted to being sexually exploited. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/nepal.htm [accessed 23 February 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - The government has reported a range of estimates for the number of
child trafficking victims. Some 5,000
to 12,000 girls may be trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation
annually, and as many as 200,000 trafficked Nepalese girls are estimated to
reside in Indian brothels.. Girls as
young as 9 years old have been trafficked.
In 2001, a local NGO recorded 265 cases of girl trafficking victims,
of which 34 percent were below 16 years of age. While trafficking of children often leads to
their sexual exploitation, there is also demand for trafficked boys and girls
to work in the informal labor sector.
A 2001, study found 30 percent of commercial sex workers in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61709.htm [accessed 23 February 2011] CHILDREN - Violence against children was
rarely prosecuted, and abuse primarily manifested itself in trafficking of
children. Forced prostitution and trafficking in young girls remained serious
problems. TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - Local NGOs combating
trafficking estimated that 25 thousand to 200 thousand women and girls were
lured or abducted annually into Hundreds of women and girls
returned voluntarily or were rescued and repatriated to the country annually
after having worked as commercial sex workers in Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/nepal2005.html [accessed 23 February 2011] [87] While noting the efforts
taken by the State party to eliminate the phenomenon of sexual exploitation
of children, the Committee is gravely concerned by the large number of
children in the State party who are sexually exploited. The Committee is of
the view that insufficient efforts have been taken to protect the
particularly vulnerable groups of children from sexual exploitation.
Specifically, the Committee notes with concern that children of lower castes
are disproportionately represented among the sex workers, and about the
persistence of the customary practice known as badi,
whereby young girls of the Bedi caste are forced
into prostitution. [88] The Committee is also
concerned at the low rate of prosecutions for perpetrators of sexual exploitation
of children and that there is little in the way of public campaigns to
educate the population of the laws governing sexual exploitation. Concluding Observations of the Committee on Economic,
Social, and Cultural Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural
Rights, 24/09/2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/esc/nepal2001.html [accessed 19 September 2011] 18. The Committee is deeply
concerned at the high number of women and girls being trafficked for
prostitution. The Committee also regrets the continuation of polygamy and the
practices or dowry, Deuki and
prostitution among the Bedi caste, particularly in
rural areas. 35. The Committee is deeply
concerned that the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the State party is spreading at an
alarming rate due to commercial sex and trafficking of women and children,
and sex tourism. Children remain easy prey for exploitation, violence The Rising www.gorkhapatra.org.np/detail.php?article_id=4809&cat_id=4 [accessed 24 June 2011] Street children are the most
vulnerable lot. Sexual abuse is hidden but a widely prevalent suffering among
them. No child is safe and away from this cauldron of suffering. Approximately 99 per cent of them are
physically and psychologically abused. Child sexual abuse may include
fondling a child’s genitals, masturbation, oral-genital contact, digital
penetration, and vaginal and anal intercourse. The other ways a child can be abused with
are direct physical contact, such as sex by exposures, voyeurism and child
pornography, use of obscene language, also referred to as non-contact abuse,
shows a research conducted jointly by CPSC NGO Nepal, CPCS INT Belgium and
VOC Nepal. Males are the predominant
perpetrators of sexual abuse against street children. On average, there are
three male abusers for every two female abusers. On an average, 40 per cent
of sexually abusive episodes are perpetrated by street-living children and
adults as well as 40 per cent by non-street living adults. Non street-living adults include relatives,
shop, hotel or restaurant owners and workers or any Nepali adult not living
on the street. The street is clearly the chief location for all types of
sexual abuses, accounting for one in three incidents occurring. – sccp Rescuing girls from sex slavery Ebonne Ruffins,
Cable News Network CNN, www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/04/29/cnnheroes.koirala.nepal/ [accessed 23 February 2011] The daughter of Nepalese peasant
farmers, Geeta -- now 26 -- had been sold to a
brothel in Human trafficking from Mohan Budhair, Kathmandu Post, Paliya www.ipcs.org/pdf_file/news_archive/sep_06_sanepal.pdf [accessed 23 February 2011] [page 22] Trafficking of Nepalese women and
children into A large number of women and
children are being trafficked into India from checkpoints west of Butwal, representatives of several Indian and Nepalese
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and security officials stated during an
interaction on 'controlling cross-border human trafficking'. Prostitution of Nepalese girls rampant in Indian brothel webindia123.com, Kolkata, Nov
20, 2005 www.stopdemand.org/afawcs0112878/ID=146/newsdetails.html [accessed 23 February 2011] ''Young girls are trafficked from 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 – Report On Laws And Legal Procedures Concerning The
Commercial Sexual Exploitation Of Children In ECPAT International in collaboration with Sapana Pradhan-Malla,
President, Forum for Women, Law and Development FWLD, November 2004 -- A
Joint Initiative by ECPAT International and Plan International to Combat the
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/ecpat_2004_laws_legal_procedures_nepal_3.pdf [accessed 24 June 2011] The paper finds that children in Duty to family &
prostitution Reuters, June 7, 2000 www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000608/world.htm#9 [accessed 24 June 2011] Grinding poverty and a sense of
duty to family can push some girls as young as seven across national borders
and into prostitution, according to experts at a UN global women's
conference. At a discussion on
trafficking of women and girls on Tuesday, one activist referred to these
elemental forces in the case of girls taken from their homes in Child Prostitution in Nepal/India Plan-UK At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 6 September 2011] Every year, thousands of Nepalese girls,
some as young as 11 are sent to or procured for brothels in the big Indian
cities, like One Woman's Work to Stop Child
Prostitution in Stephanie Salter, San Francisco Chronicle, November 7,
2001 www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/c/a/2001/11/07/ED235073.DTL&e=42 [accessed 24 June 2011] About 10,000 girls, most ages 9 to
16, are sold each year into the sex trade of neighboring Child Hierodulic Servitude in Anti-Slavery Society www.anti-slaverysociety.addr.com/hieroras.htm [accessed 24 June 2011] Hierodulic child prostitution is a
generic term that the Society uses to describe religiously sanctioned child
prostitution, and, specifically, those children engaged in religious cult
prostitution. However, nowadays, this
original purpose has gone and, after dedication — usually at the age of 5 to
7 years of age — the child is often deflowered by the priest and then sold to
the highest bidder. Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC News, Final Story,
Series 6, Episode 12 -- Broadcast: 17/9/1996, Reporter: Martha Kearney www.abc.net.au/foreign/stories/s300306.htm [accessed 24 June 2011] SYNOPSIS - The BBC's Martha Kearney traveled
to Child Prostitution in Sarika Misha,
People's www.pucl.org/from-archives/Child/prostitution.htm [accessed 24 June 2011] II.
EXTENT - A survey
conducted by Indian Health Organization of a red light area of Tulasa and the Horrors of Child
Prostitution - Sold And Resold Body And Soul Rajedar Menen
reports from Kathmandu and At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 19 August 2011] Tulasa was abducted from Thankut village in Bagmati
district near Kathmandu and then smuggled to Children and Women Trafficking
in Idea Action Programmes--
Professor Yi Ki Ho, www.idea.org.np/Children%20&%20Women%20Trafficking.html [accessed 24 June 2011] It was 10 years ago.13-year-old
Mira of Nepal was offered a job as a domestic worker in Millions Suffer in Sex Slavery United Press International UPI, CHICAGO, April 24, 2001 archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/4/23/184354.shtml [accessed 24 June 2011]
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