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situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
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this page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of
particular interest to you. You might
be interested in exploring how children got started, how they survive, and
how some succeed in leaving. Perhaps
your paper could focus on runaways and the abuse that led to their
leaving. Other factors of interest
might be poverty, rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction,
hunger, neglect, etc. On the other hand,
you might choose to write about the manipulative and dangerous adults who
control this activity. There is a lot
to the subject of Child Prostitution.
Scan other countries as well as this one. Draw comparisons between activity in
adjacent countries and/or regions.
Meanwhile, check out some of the Term-Paper resources
that are available on-line. Teachers Check out some of
the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims The Norwegian Directorate of
Immigration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** New BBC News, 1 January
2009 news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7806760.stm [accessed 29 June
2011] A new law has come
into force in Critics of the new
regulations say prostitution will simply be driven underground and will be
more difficult to control. Thematic Reports -
Mechanisms of the Commission on Human Rights Special Rapporteur
on the At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 29 June
2011] The study examined the
entry of 10 young girls into prostitution; this had occurred when all of them
were under 16 and the study found that eight of them had had a traumatic
childhood, with broken homes, neglect, violence, alcohol abuse, uncertainty
and betrayal. Some were sexually abused. On average, they had their first
experience with drugs at age 12, first sex at 13, prostitution debut at 14.
Some explained that their entry into prostitution had been a cry for help, a
"solution" to a difficult childhood, a
wish for love, to be seen and acknowledged. Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children in the The Baltic Sea
States Support Group, Prime Minister's Office · S-103 33, www.sasian.org/legal/baltic/baltic2.htm [accessed 29 June
2011] THE TASK FORCE ON
ORGANIZED CRIME IN THE ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Alessia Altamura, ECPAT International,
2012 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A4A_V2_EU_NORWAY.pdf [accessed 6
September 2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Norway.
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/norway/ [accessed 6
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - Commercial sexual exploitation of children younger
than 18 is illegal, both in the country and abroad when committed by a citizen
of the country. In both cases the punishment is either a fine or a prison
sentence of up to two years. Child pornography is also illegal and punishable
by a fine or a prison sentence of up to three years. The government generally
enforced the law. The minimum age for consensual sex is 16. 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/norway2005d.html [accessed 14
December 2010] [3] The Committee
welcomes a number of measures taken by the State party to implement and
strengthen the protection of the rights covered by the Optional Protocol,
including the 2003-2005 National Plan of Action to Combat trafficking, the
special Plan of Action on Children’s and Young People’s Use of the Internet
and the Awareness, Facts and Tools Protect to disseminate knowledge about
safe use of the Internet and combat sexual abuse of children and sexual
exploitation of children [4] The Committee
also notes with satisfaction the incorporation of the Optional Protocol into
Norwegian Law by the Human Rights Act in October 2003. 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 – Finding Jewels In
The Gutter Ana Swierstra Bie, Share
International, April 1999 www.shareintl.org/archives/homelessness/hl-asb-findingjewels.html [accessed 29 June
2011] After some initial
skepticism, the street-children quickly realized that here was someone who
sincerely wanted to help, without asking anything in return. During that summer they made about 4,000
sandwiches, and when the institutions reopened Arne had no inclination to
stop the work. The drug-addicts, prostitutes, criminals, homeless and
alcoholics had become "their kids" - whatever their ages. ECPAT Norway ECPAT International At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 29 June
2011] ACTIVITIES - The organisation supported the participation of youth in a
number of CSEC projects, workshops and conferences benefiting their personal
development and the movement to stop CSEC. Specifically, ECPAT Norway
supported youth participation at In January 2002,
the organisation delivered a report to the Minister
of Family and Children Affairs analyzing the situation of CSEC in Save the Children
Norway is also engaging in a wide-ranging child sex tourism campaign, in
which ECPAT's Code of Conduct Project for the tourism industry has been given
due attention. The travel operators will distribute a brochure that has been
produced by ECPAT Norway and in November, ECPAT Norway will organise a national seminar on CSEC where this campaign
will be the main focus. ECPAT Norway,
working in conjunction with a number of other organisations,
has made an application to a research fund to investigate the number of and
the way in which children are recruited into the sex industry in Speech before UN
59th General Assembly Ambassadør Johan M. Løvald, [accessed 29 June
2011] We all know that
chronic poverty remains the single biggest obstacle to meeting the needs of
children and protecting and promoting their rights. Poverty is a breeding
ground for human rights violations, and it also gives rise to conflict and
child abuse. Conflict in turn reinforces poverty. We must intensify our
efforts in conflict-prevention, humanitarian assistance, peacebuilding and
long-term development co-operation. Norway will allocate more to development,
and will seek to persuade other donor countries to do the same. The Norwegian
Government’s goal is to increase our Official Development Assistance from the
current level of 0.93 to 1 per cent of GNI by 2005. One in 12 children
forced into world's 'worst forms' of labor: UNICEF UK Agence France-Presse AFP, www.worldrevolution.org/news/article1773.htm [accessed 2
September 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 - NORWAY [PDF] ECPAT International,
2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-NORWAY.pdf [accessed 29 June
2011] Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61667.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] WOMEN - Prostitution is
legal, but organized prostitution
and pimping are illegal. NGOs and the government estimated that 2,500 to
3,000 persons sell sexual services. A few of these persons were men, and NGOs
reported that a few persons selling sexual services appeared to be under the
age of 18, although they generally claimed to be older. All
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