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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Children Rights ECPAT: CSEC Country
Report nigergroup.pbworks.com/w/page/23964283/Nina [accessed 27 June 2011] [scroll down to CHILDREN RIGHTS] Child prostitution is a growing
problem in *** ARCHIVES
*** UNICEF – www.unicef.org/infobycountry/niger.html [accessed 27 June 2011] The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/niger.htm [accessed 12 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Children also shine shoes; guard cars; work as apprentices for
artisans, tailors, and mechanics; perform domestic work; and work as porters
and street beggars. Children work under hazardous conditions in small trona, salt, gypsum, and gold mines and quarries;
prostitution; and drug trafficking; as well as in slaughterhouses. Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61585.htm [accessed 12 December 2010] A survey conducted by a local NGO
during the year found that 5.8 percent of households interviewed claimed that
at least one member of their household had been a victim of trafficking.
Internal trafficking of young boys for labor and young girls for work as
maids and in some cases for prostitution from rural to urban areas occurred.
There were credible reports of underage girls being drawn into prostitution,
sometimes with the complicity of the family. There also were reports that
child prostitution was especially prevalent along the main East‑West
highway, particularly between the towns of Birni N'konni and Zinder. Child
prostitution is not criminalized specifically, and there was no precise age
of consent; however, the law prohibits "indecent" acts toward
minors. It was left to a judge to determine what constituted an indecent act.
Such activity and a corollary statute against "the incitement of minors
to wrongdoing" were punishable by three to five years in prison. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 7 June 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/niger2002.html [accessed 4 March 2011] [68] The Committee is concerned at
the increasing number of child victims of sexual exploitation, including for
prostitution and pornography, especially among child laborers and street
children. Concern is also expressed at the insufficient programs for the
physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of child victims
of such abuse and exploitation. 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 – Children Rights ECPAT: CSEC Country
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