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from the web to illuminate the situation in *** ARCHIVES *** 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 www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61697.htm [accessed 19 December 2010] 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. 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Persian Journal, Jun 20, 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may possibly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of Children held in At one time this article had been archived and may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. All material used herein
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