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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Xinhua News Agency, June 15, 2006 english.peopledaily.com.cn/200606/15/eng20060615_274279.html [accessed 27 June 2011] The plan will target hotels,
travel agencies, car rental offices, taxis, bars, restaurants, to stop minors
from selling sexual services to tourists, said Judith Acevedo, the executive
secretary of Canatu. Child Prostitution: A Growing Scourge W. E. Gutman, www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_10/issue_07/travel_01.html [accessed 27 June 2011] A REGION OUT OF CONTROL - Sex tourism is a growing and
lucrative enterprise for criminal networks operating in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/nicaragua.htm [accessed 12 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Child prostitution is a problem in At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 27 June 2011] 1. CHILD LABOR IN Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61734.htm [accessed 12 December 2010] CHILDREN - Child prostitution was a problem.
While the law defines statutory rape as sexual relations with children who
are 13 years of age and younger, there is no legal prohibition on
prostitution by juveniles 14 years of age and older. 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/nicaragua2005.html [accessed 12 December 2010] [70] While welcoming the measures taken
by the State party to combat and raise awareness about the problem of sexual
exploitation and trafficking in persons, the Committee is concerned at the
information that a consistent number of children are victims of sexual
violence, pornography, remunerated sexual activity and sexual tourism in
Nicaragua and that sexual abuse and exploitation in its various forms,
including trafficking, pornography and sexual tourism, have not been
classified yet as crimes in the Penal Code. Xinhua News Agency, June 15, 2006 english.peopledaily.com.cn/200606/15/eng20060615_274279.html [accessed 27 June 2011] The plan will target hotels,
travel agencies, car rental offices, taxis, bars, restaurants, to stop minors
from selling sexual services to tourists, said Judith Acevedo, the executive
secretary of Canatu. 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 – Child Prostitution: A Growing Scourge W. E. Gutman, www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_10/issue_07/travel_01.html [accessed 27 June 2011] A REGION
OUT OF CONTROL - Sex tourism is a growing and lucrative enterprise for
criminal networks operating in Broken Bodies - Broken Dreams: Violence Against Women
Exposed [PDF] Image by Evelyn Hockstein, UN
Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN www.irinnews.org/pdf/bb/3IRIN_Duo-child-sex-exploitation.pdf [accessed 27 June 2011] [caption at the bottom of page 48] “Roxanna”
takes a rest while waiting for clients alongside a main road in Roxanna,
like many of them, had been sexually abused when she was younger: “I was
raped when I was 13 by two guys. It was seven in the evening, and I was on my
way home from the market. I had to stay at home for a month after the rape. “We
needed money — we were so in debt that I decided to go to the streets.” Roxanna’s father left the family when she
was nine, and her mother is 60 years old and diabetic. “She has ulcers on her
legs and can’t walk,” Roxanna said. “Two months after I started working she
asked me how I earned the money. I told her — she agreed there was no
alternative. Now I go out every night.” Working to Help Coffee’s
Children Tea & Coffee Trade OnLine,
Vol.176 No.2, Feb/March 2002 www.teaandcoffee.net/0202/special.htm [accessed 27 June 2011] PRICE
CRISIS EXACERBATES POVERTY AND CHILD LABOR - In extreme cases
this year, children of coffee workers and farmers are being forced into
harsher, more exploitive forms of child labor. Displaced coffee workers in
Nicaragua, according to a recent news story in La Prensa,
have congregated near the Costa Rican border, and reports of child
prostitution have sprung up for the first time there, as families have been
driven to desperate actions just to survive. Government survey reveals increase in child prostitution
in Nicaragua August 23, 1999 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 27 June 2011] [in the column at the right --
scroll down to Monday, Aug 23] GOVERNMENT SURVEY REVEALS INCREASE
IN CHILD PROSTITUTION IN NICARAGUA - The official study involved interviews with 300 child
prostitutes -- 70.3 percent adolescent girls and 29.7 percent adolescent boys
-- conducted in the areas of Managua, Corinto, Bluefields, Rivas and Leon. The majority of the 300
children questioned said they didn't attend school: 28.4 percent said they
didn't want to, 20.2 percent didn't have the money and 11.1 percent said they
had to work to support their children. Sex Tourism Plagues Paul Jeffrey, Response Magazine for United Methodist Women
UMW gbgm-umc.org/response/articles/sextourism.html [accessed 27 June 2011] Street children who used to sniff
relatively inexpensive glue are now turning to crack, readily available in
the region as Central American military officials, no longer living high on
the hog from The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/nicaragua.doc [Last accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Studies have found that 1,000 to
1,200 women are in prostitution in the city of Managua alone, and almost half
of them are younger than 18. According to one report, hundreds of teenage
girls in prostitution line the Masaya Highway
commercial corridor on Managua’s south side every night. Sex tourism also exists in Nicaragua. Many
women cater to sex tourists from the United States, Canada, Germany, and
other countries in Europe. Child sex
tourism is increasing, and young girls are exploited in massage parlors, of
which Managua has at least 25. Young women leave Nicaragua for
neighboring countries or other places for promised jobs in hotels or
factories or as domestics. One report
recounts the story of a girl who was kidnapped at the age of 12 as she was
walking to school in Managua in 1998. She had set out for school alone, as
she did every morning. A taxi stopped her to ask directions. She remembers
nothing more after that. She woke up in an unfamiliar place among other young
girls, guarded by three women. Less than a week later, she was sold to some
men, who sold her to others, who brought her to the United States to work in
a brothel. For the next 6 years, until she was 18, she was “dragged from
place to place and passed from hand to hand.” At the age of 18, she managed
to go to the authorities, who deported her. She is now back in Nicaragua
after “losing the best years of [her] life and [her] adolescence.” All material used herein
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