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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims Foreign Affairs Ministry ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Nicaragua Chamber
of Tourism vows to fight child prostitution 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] lab.org.uk/sex-tourism-threatens-central-america%E2%80%99s-youth/ [accessed 24 October
2017] A REGION OUT OF CONTROL - Sex tourism is a
growing and lucrative enterprise for criminal networks operating in Nicaragua,
Central America's largest and poorest nation. According to Casa Alianza, between 1,200 and 1,500 girls and young women
work the brothels of Managua, and almost half are under the age of 18.
A study of 300 street children by the Nicaragua Ministry of Family reveals
that more than 80 percent admitted to engaging in prostitution to support
their drug habits. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country Monitoring
Report
[PDF] ECPAT International,
2015 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CRM_NICARAGUA_FINAL_2015NOV6.pdf [accessed 6
September 2020] [SPANISH] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in
Nicaragua. 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/nicaragua/ [accessed 6
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits sexual exploitation in general and
designates enticing children or adolescents to engage in sexual activity as
an aggravating condition. The government generally enforced the law when
pertaining to child sex trafficking. Penalties include 10 to 15 years in
prison for a person who entices or forces any individual to engage in sexual
activity and 19 to 20 years in prison for the same acts involving children or
adolescents. The law defines statutory rape as sexual relations with children
age 14 or younger. The law also
prohibits child pornography, and the government generally enforced it. The
penalty for an individual convicted of inducing, facilitating, promoting, or
using a minor for sexual or erotic purposes is 10 to 15 years in prison. The country was a
destination for child sex tourism. The law imposes a penalty of five to seven
years in prison for convicted child-sex tourists. 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 6
September 2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 864] Information about
the prevalence of child labor in Nicaragua is limited because the last known
national survey on child labor was published in 2012. (8,18) However,
available research indicates that children are subjected to commercial sexual
exploitation, particularly in Granada, Managua, the Caribbean Autonomous
Regions, and San Juan del Sur. (10,16,19) Children from poor, rural areas,
those in the Caribbean Autonomous Regions, and migrants from the Northern
Triangle countries, are particularly vulnerable. (10) Limited research
suggests that the 2018 political upheaval in Nicaragua resulted in Nicaraguan
National Police focusing resources on responding to anti-government protests,
possibly impacting public security and leaving children more vulnerable to commercial
sexual exploitation. (8,10) Children in
Nicaragua who lack identification documents, sometimes due to a lack of birth
registration, may not have access to social services and are at an increased
risk of human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. (20) An
estimated 15 percent of children born in Nicaragua lack birth certificates.
Although the government’s birth registration campaign is advancing, it has
not reached all children, especially in remote areas. (21,22) 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. Five Years After
Stockholm [PDF] 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 – 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] www.thefreelibrary.com/Working+to+help+coffee's+children.-a085013144 [accessed 13
November 2016] 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
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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.” ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** 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] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor 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 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61734.htm [accessed 10
February 2020 CHILDREN - Child
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