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the Resources
for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims La Strada ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** The
Incidence Of Commercial Sexual Exploitation Of Children In The The Baltic Sea
States Support Group, Prime Minister's Office, www.sasian.org/legal/baltic/baltic2.htm [accessed 11 July
2011] ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Hannah Darton and Lara Green, ECPAT International, 2012 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A4A_V2_EU_POLAND.pdf [accessed 6
September 2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Poland.
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/poland/ [accessed 6
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits sexual intercourse with children younger
than 15. The penalty for statutory rape ranges from two to 12 years’
imprisonment. Child pornography
is illegal. The production, possession, storage, or importation of child
pornography involving children younger than 15 is punishable by three months’
to 10 years’ imprisonment. During the year police conducted several
operations against child pornography and alleged pedophiles. According to the
government and the Children Empowerment Foundation, a leading NGO dealing
with trafficking in children, trafficking of children for sexual exploitation
remained a problem. Concluding
Observations Of The Committee On The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 4 October 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/poland2002.html [accessed 19
December 2010] [48] While noting
the increased efforts of the State party to cooperate in regional programs to
prevent trafficking and repatriate victims, the Committee is nevertheless
concerned that Poland continues to be a country of origin, destination and
transit for children trafficked for sexual 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 – The Gully online
magazine, JAN. 12, 2004 www.thegully.com/essays/gaymundo/040111_poland_rights_women.html [accessed 11 July
2011] CHILDREN
VULNERABLE
- Since the border guards and police may regard trafficking victims as
criminals who have violated passport laws, victims were afraid to turn to
officials for help. Victims have no legal status, and there were no public
resources available to assist them. Victims usually were deported as soon as
possible to avoid any expenses connected with keeping them in detention. Trafficking in
Children for Sexual Purposes ECPAT International
Newsletters, Issue No : 33
1/December/2000 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 17
September 2011] EASTERN EUROPE - Statement
by Ms. Krystyna Tokarska-Biernacik, Under-Secretary of State at the
Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and Head of the Polish Delegation, 8-10
May 2002 www.un.org/ga/children/polandE.htm [accessed 11 July
2011] In 1978 Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children [PDF] - A report on
the implementation of the Agenda for Action adopted at the first World
Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Stockholm,
Sweden, 28 August 1996 ECPAT International,
August 1997 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 July
2011] [4] NATIONAL
ACTIVITIES
- Police have uncovered Report
on the Situation of Non-Denominational Citizens and Humanist Organizations Polish Humanist
Federation Polish Humanist Association slovakia.humanists.net/poland_reprt.htm [accessed 11 July
2011] Next, on 21 July
1998, the Council of Ministers adopted a document entitled "Report on
the Situation of Polish Families", which is seen by the authors of the
pro-family policy as a major contribution to the shaping of governmental
policy. Violence in the family is discussed in a sub-section on children and
teenagers and pertains mainly to child beating. Incest or sexual abuse in the
family is not discussed at all. In the authors' opinion, the only existing
sexual abuse of children occurs in child prostitution, and the abusers are
mainly the so-called sex tourists "particularly of German origin."
Characteristically, in discussing child prostitution, the report only
mentions girls, although it is a well known fact that the problem concerns
male teenagers as well. The Diagnosis [DOC] The Robinson Crusoe
Foundation, August 29, 2005 www.childcentre.info/projects/institutions/poland/dbaFile12064.doc [accessed 11 July
2011] Young people raised
in orphanages are condemned to failure.
They are condemned by their low level of education, by their perceived
helplessness and by their lack of self-confidence. They are condemned by the
financial situation of orphanages struggling to survive, and which therefore
do not consider guiding their charges towards maturity and independence a
priority. The Robinson Crusoe Foundation wants to change this. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - POLAND [PDF] ECPAT International,
2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-POLAND.pdf [accessed 11 July
2011] SEXUAL EXPLOITATION
OF BOYS
- September 2002 saw a major police operation against the sexual exploitation
of boys that was taking place in The Department of Labor’s 2003 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2003/poland.htm [accessed 19
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 - There are also reports that girls are trafficked to
and from Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61668.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] CHILDREN
-
Child abuse was rare. The law prohibits violence against children, and anyone
who physically or psychologically abuses a juvenile may receive a prison
sentence of three months to five years. However, abuse was rarely reported,
and convictions also were rare. Police reported 1,697 cases of the sexual
exploitation of children, 158 cases of child pornography, and 70 cases of
child abandonment. Schools did not have procedures to protect children from
physical or psychological abuse by teachers, and the teachers' work code
provides legal immunity from prosecution for corporal punishment in the classroom.
Trafficking in
children, primarily for the purpose of sexual exploitation, was a problem. All
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