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Child Prostitution

The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children

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Republic of Palau The economy consists primarily of tourism, subsistence agriculture, and fishing. The government is the major employer of the work force relying heavily on financial assistance from the US. Business and tourist arrivals numbered 85,000 in 2007. The population enjoys a per capita income roughly 50% higher than that of the Philippines and much of Micronesia. [The World Factbook, U.S.C.I.A. 2009]

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Human Rights Reports » 2006 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices

U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, March 6, 2007

www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2006/78786.htm

[accessed 15 December 2010]

CHILDREN - Children's rights generally were respected, although there were isolated reports of child neglect. Commercial sexual exploitation of children was neither accepted within society nor practiced.

Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC)

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 26 January 2001

www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/palau2001.html

[accessed 15 December 2010]

[58] The Committee expresses its concern about the inadequate legal protection of children, particularly boys, against commercial sexual exploitation, including prostitution and pornography. Concern is also expressed at the insufficient programmes for the physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration of child victims of such abuse and exploitation.

The Protection Project - Palau [DOC]

The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), The Johns Hopkins University

www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/palau.doc

[accessed 2009]

FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - In 2000, the Committee on the Rights of the Child expressed concern over several issues related to the status and rights of children in Palau. Among the committee’s concerns were the increasing occurrence of sexual abuse of children, a lack of awareness with regard to domestic violence, and the inadequate financial and human resources that are needed to prevent all types of abuse against children. The committee also pointed to the lack of adequate legal protection against commercial sexual exploitation of boys in particular.

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]

[page 191] PALAU – According to the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2000, released by the US Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor in February 2001, child prostitution is neither accepted within the culture of Palau, nor practiced within Palau. Furthermore, there have been no reports on trafficking in Palau

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