C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
for material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on
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 National Office of Combating Trafficking
in Humans ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** ECPAT Regional
Overview – Sexual Exploitation of Children Middle East and North Africa [PDF] Zina Khoury and Sirsa Qursha, ECPAT International, 2020 [accessed 6
September 2020] This Regional
Overview on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA), consolidates the relevant
existing data to map the context, risk factors, region-specific issues,
responses and gaps in the fight against the issue. In addition to providing
external audiences with a summary and analysis of the SEC, this report will
also serve as an advocacy tool that highlights good practices by governments
and other actors, and identifies opportunities for improvements. Keywords:
child marriage, war and conflict, LQBTQI, SOGIE, gender norms, taboo. 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/qatar/ [accessed 6
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - No specific law sets a minimum age for consensual
sex. The law prohibits sex outside of marriage. In the criminal law, the
penalty for sexual relations with a person younger than 16 years is life
imprisonment. If the individual is the nonspousal
relative, guardian, caretaker, or servant of the victim, the penalty is
death; there were no reports this sentence was ever implemented. No specific
law prohibits child pornography because all pornography is prohibited, but
the law specifically criminalizes the commercial sexual exploitation of
children. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 12 October 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/qatar2001.html [accessed 19
December 2010] [61] The Committee
encourages the State party to ratify the Optional Protocols to the Convention
on the Rights of the Child on the sale of children, child prostitution and
child pornography, and on the involvement of children in armed conflict. 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] 6.1
MIDDLE EAST [A] THE IMPACT OF THE STOCKHOLM AGENDA FOR ACTION ON WORK AGAINST
THE COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN – Some NGOs and government sources
from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Kuwait confirm that they are not familiar
with the Stockholm Agenda for Action. However, the ILO in Slavery of Children
and women in Morteza Aminmansour,
Persian Journal, Jun 20, 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 17
September 2011] Exact number of
victims is impossible to obtain, but according to an official source in UAE,
there has been increase in the number of teen-age girls in prostitution
(forced to work from 5.1 Middle East -
State of ECPAT International,
Looking Back Thinking Forward, November 2000 -- The fourth report on the
implementation of the Agenda for Action adopted at the World Congress against
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children held in At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13
September 2011] While
Commercial
sexual exploitation of children - Middle East/ based on the
situation analysis written by Dr Najat M’jid for the
Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Rabat, Morocco,
24-26 October 2001 -- Source document (in French): Rapport sur la situation
de l’exploitation sexuelle
des enfants dans la région MENA, 10 septembre 2001 www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 12 July
2011] These countries
also have in common, however, a number of constraints that have hindered
preparation of national plans of action. In all the countries of the region,
there is cultural resistance to addressing the problem because the subject is
largely taboo. Often the issue is
dealt with more generally under headings such as ‘violence’ and
‘trauma’. This means that there has
been no regional consensus on defining CSEC in law; in some countries, for
example, it is looked upon as an indecent act, in others as rape, although in
all 20 countries there is some section of the penal code that can be invoked
against sexual abuse and exploitation. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, March 8, 2006 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61697.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– The country also was a destination for women and girls who traveled to the
country to work as domestic servants. Two embassies reported that a total of
600 of their nationals had been forced into domestic servitude and sexual
exploitation. All
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