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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Child Prostitution
in the Carin Tiggeloven, Radio At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 26 June
2011] The number of Dutch children working in prostitution has increased dramatically over the past five years: from 4,000 to 15,000 according to figures published by the Amsterdam-based ChildRight organization. Most children
that end up in prostitution in the Netherlands are boys or young under aged
asylum-seekers – particularly Nigerian girls. ChildRight
claims this group numbers some 5,000 children. But recent years have seen a
significant rise on the number of Dutch girls forced into the sex industry.
Among them are an estimated 5,000 runaway or homeless children, many of whom
are mentally retarded. Another large group (also 5,000) are ‘ordinary' Dutch
schoolgirls, aged 13 or 14 from a "regular home environment" who
are lured into prostitution by so-called "lover-boys". - sccp ***
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In ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Irene Pietropaoli, ECPAT International, 2011 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/NETHERLANDS%202nd.pdf [accessed 6
September 2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in the
Netherlands. 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/netherlands/ [accessed 6
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - Throughout the kingdom, the law prohibits commercial
sexual exploitation of children as well as production, possession, and
distribution of child pornography, and authorities enforced the law. The
minimum age of consent is 16 in the Netherlands, Curacao, and Aruba and 15 in
Sint Maarten. The Netherlands is a source country
of child sex tourists. The government ran campaigns to encourage travelers to
report suspicions of child sex tourism. An offender can be tried in the
Netherlands even if the offense takes place abroad. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 30 January 2009 www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/IRC/articles.asp?articleID=40&NewsID=12 [access date not
available] 20. The Committee
welcomes initiatives for preventive action against sale of children, child
prostitution and child pornography both within the State party and abroad,
such as the tightened criminal provisions on child pornography, corrupting
children and grooming, but is concerned at the lack of a comprehensive
national strategy to prevent sale of children, child prostitution and child
pornography. 22. The Committee
is concerned about the existence of child sex tourism involving Dutch
nationals, and the lack of an adequate response. 24. The Committee
is concerned that the State party’s legislation does not criminalise
the production or dissemination of materials advertising the sale of
children, child prostitution or child pornography, but notes information from
the State party that it is currently working to decide whether supplementary
legislation is desirable to ban such advertisement. Italian police
break up child prostitution network Radio At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 26 June
2011] Italian police have
made scores of arrests and rolled up a child prostitution network. Fifty-one
people were arrested in Italy and 15 in other countries, mainly the Netherlands. They are accused of
human trafficking, exploitation and kidnapping. In Nigeria, Nigerian women
took very young children from orphanages to work in the drug trade and as
prostitutes. The children are also believed to have been taken from asylum centres in the Netherlands.
The police operation began in October 2007 when, at the request of the Dutch
government, 22 Nigerians were detained in Nigeria, various European countries
and the US. The paedophiles are here Martin jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060608/cleisure/cleisure2.html [accessed 26 June
2011] old.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20060608/cleisure/cleisure2.html [accessed 13
November 2016] Last Wednesday [May
31], a paedophile political party was launched in The Netherlands. The NVD whose name
in English means the Neighbourly Love, Freedom and
Diversity party wants to cut the age of consent for youth-adult consensual
sex from 16 to 12 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 – Sexual Exploitation
- ECPAT The Defence for Children
International The At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 15
September 2011] ECPAT-NL exists
since 1995 and as of 2003 is a cooperative with Defence
for Children International The Netherlands. ECPAT-NL works closely with organisations in The Netherlands and internationally that
are active against sexual abuse and exploitation of children. ECPAT-NL is
supported by stichting Kinderpostzegels
Nederland, Plan Nederland ( the former Foster Parents Plan), Mensen in Nood, Cordaid and Kerk in Actie, Kinderen in de Knel. ECPAT-NL is raising
awareness on commercial sexual exploitation of children in Dutch society.
ECPAT-NL is also lobbying for adequate and effective law enforcement and
prevention and healthcare programmes regarding the
prevention of sexual exploitation of children at governmental and societal
level. Also the private sector, like internet service providers and the
tourism industry are addressed to take responsibility to protect children
from sexual exploitation. ECPAT-NL has played an important role in the
development, execution and monitoring of the Dutch National Action Plan
'Sexual Abuse of children'. Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and
Social Council Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January
2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 26 June
2011] [58] Report
by Special Rapporteur UN Economic and
Social Council Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-sixth session, 22 December
1999 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/eee276066375879b8025689600531c70?Opendocument [accessed 26 June
2011] [120] Girls are
most commonly seduced into prostitution by a lover, but boys are used to get
other boys involved, usually through stories of the money that can be made by
such activity. The Special Rapporteur was advised that male entry into
prostitution was more organized, with several individuals working to coerce
the boy, whereas usually just one man would coerce a girl into these
activities. [121]
Non-governmental sources reported that most of the boys have the same
background of physical and sexual abuse, and many doubt their own sexuality. Virtually
all are in drug-related activities. [122] In Amsterdam
and Tighter
Controls To Target Sex-Trade Clients Andrew Evans,
Opinion, The Advertiser, March 12, 2003 --- p.18 www.walnet.org/csis/news/world_2003/ausadv-030312.html [accessed 26 June
2011] When I visited the Comments
of CATW (Coalition Against Trafficking in Women) Coalition Against
Trafficking in Women, March 10, 2002 action.web.ca/home/catw/readingroom.shtml?x=31742 [accessed 26 June
2011] Another argument
for legalizing prostitution in the The Annemieke Wolthuis
& Mirjam Blaak, Defence For Children International Section The Nederlands www.defenceforchildren.nl/images/13/137.pdf [accessed 26 June
2011] [page 2] INTRODUCTION - The object of this research is to provide a
comprehensive study of and to what extent, children are trafficked for sexual
purposes to The Netherlands; how they get here, what happens to them next,
and what can be done to help them. [page 5] 3. OVERVIEW OF OTHER RESEARCH - CHILD
PROSTITUTION IN THE NETHERLANDS - The research distinguished five
different categories of sexual exploitation in The Netherlands: 1.
Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum; 2. Child sexual abuse for the child
pornography industry; 3. Young boys; 4. Teenage `romance'; 5. Individual
situations. Report on the
Sexual Exploitation of Children Child Rights
Information Network CRIN, 01/01/2001 www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?id=1456 [accessed 26 June
2011] CHILD
PROSTITUTION IN THE ECPAT: Trafficking
in Children for Sexual Purposes ECPAT International
Newsletter, Issue No : 33
1/December/2000 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13
September 2011] EASTERN EUROPE - One in 12 children
forced into world's 'worst forms' of labor Agence France-Presse AFP, www.worldrevolution.org/news/article1773.htm [accessed 20 April
2012] UNICEF UNICEF UK lauded
the pledge of developed countries, made more than 30 years ago, of allocating
0.7 percent of gross domestic product to development aid but regretted that
only five countries today fulfill that promise -- Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and
Sweden. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - NETHERLANDS [PDF] ECPAT International,
2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-NETHERLANDS.pdf [accessed 26 June
2011] Children and young
people are thus rarely exploited as street sex workers or in red light
districts, as checks on such areas are usually stringent. Their sexual
exploitation occurs predominantly within illegal escort services, in hotels,
in parked cars, in private houses, and in illegal private clubs (mostly in
towns but also in the countryside). Some of these clubs are situated within
the jurisdiction of local authorities that exert weaker controls. According
to interviewees from the Trafficking in Human Beings Information Unit (IEM),
exploiters are using the Internet and mobile phones to gain access to
children and young people for prostitution. Little is known
about the sexual exploitation of boys, but there are reports that young
eastern European male prostitutes include minors. In addition, care organisations working with drug addicts indicate the
involvement of boys aged between 15 and 18. Boys seem to enter prostitution
at a slightly younger age than girls, i.e. between 9 and 15 years old. The
prostitution of boys tends to be less visible nowadays due to the increasing
use of the Internet, chatrooms, mobile phones and advertisements to establish
contact. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61666.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– Trafficking within the country was also a problem. Of the 405 trafficking
victims registered in 2004, 51 were living in the country at the time they
were seduced into prostitution by so-called lover boys, primarily young
Moroccan or Turkish men and boys. The victims were young, mostly immigrant
women. In January the government set up the national expertise center for
youth prostitution to collect figures, background information, and the best
practices in fighting youth prostitution and lover boys. Various
organizations and local governments initiated specific assistance and
prevention programs for potential victims of "lover boys." Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2004 UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 30 January 2004 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/netherlands2004.html [accessed 23
February 2011] [56] The Committee
welcomes the State party’s efforts in the Netherlands to address the sexual
exploitation of children, in particular, through training of the police.
However, it is concerned that the “complaint requirement” by victims over the
age of 12 and the “double criminality” requirement hamper the prosecution of
cases of child sexual abuse committed in the All
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