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Dept of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Estimates of the number of street children range from 100,000 to
150,000, with possibly 4 million additional children at risk of living on the
streets. Homeless children often receive no education, are more susceptible
to substance abuse, and frequently engaged in criminal activities, including
prostitution, to survive. Without educational opportunities or family
support, youth form or join gangs or groups and turn to crime. In 2004, seven
persons were sentenced for acts involving the recruitment and sexual
exploitation of children. Children work in informal retail
services, sell goods on the street, wash cars, make deliveries, collect trash
and beg. Children are trafficked globally for sexual exploitation from Bur of Democracy,
Human Rights & Labor - Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 CHILDREN – Homeless children often engaged
in criminal activities, received no education, and were vulnerable to drug
and alcohol abuse. Some young girls on the streets turned to, or were forced
into, prostitution to survive. SECTION 6
WORKER RIGHTS – [d]
Accepted social prohibitions against employment of children and the
availability of adult workers at low wages generally prevented widespread
abuse of child labor. Nonetheless, children working and living on the streets
remained a problem. Parents often used their children to lend credence to
their poverty when begging or had them beg. Homeless children were at
heightened risk for exploitation in prostitution or criminal activities. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - 2005 [78] The Committee is concerned
about the large number of children and young people being sexually exploited
in the State party. It is concerned that teenage prostitution is an acute
problem in the State party. It is also concerned that children aged 14 to 18
years old are not legally protected from involvement in prostitution and
pornography. Ghana:
Rescuing the Child Prostitute, Whose Responsibility? RESEARCH FINDINGS - A 2006 report by World Vision Middle
East/Eastern Europe funded by the Canadian government and supported by six
United Nations agencies and the International Organization For Child
Migration reported that the sexual exploitation of children, child
trafficking and sexual violence towards minors is increasing and that Russia
is becoming a new destination for child sex tourism. The report adds that
some studies claim approximately 20 per cent to 25 per cent of Moscow's sex
workers are minors. Stopping
sexual abuse of Russian kids One of the regrettable
consequences of the uneven economic expansion that Russia has experienced in
recent times has been the increase in child abuse, particularly child
prostitution. Sexual abuse of children can take
several forms — from their use in pornographic materials for sale, to their
use in other countries and Russia itself as prostitutes. Lured by fake
promises in fashion magazines, some schoolgirls rate prostitution high on the
list of modern "professions" to pursue. They believe that
prostitution and contact with rich businessmen will provide them with the
kind of lifestyle that they could never expect otherwise. St. Petersburg and the northwest
region of Russia report a high incidence of sex tourism, which is widely
advertised on the Internet and aimed at people from neighboring Scandinavian
countries. Prostitution is the most common form of child exploitation in the
region. Frequent recruiting targets
are street children or children from dysfunctional families. Once they're
entrapped, they may end up in brothels and red-light districts as they get
older. Recruiters prey on these children's situations, deceiving them into a
life of dependency. Children engaged in prostitution
frequently belong to families in extreme poverty, and characterized by
alcohol and drug addiction or a hostile family atmosphere. In other cases,
they are orphans who have made the street their home. - htsccp RUSSIA:
Stopping Sexual Abuse of Children Russia is now one of the main
producers of child pornography in the world, and it registers significant incidences
of child prostitution and child trafficking for sexual purposes, according to
the Russian National Consultation on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children. St. Petersburg and northwestern
Russia report a high incidence of sex tourism, which is widely advertised on
the Internet and is aimed at people from neighboring Scandinavian countries.
Child prostitution is the most common form of child exploitation in that
region. While in the city’s newspaper
printing complex editions with unproved accusations and the names of victims
were coming off the presses, 12-year-old children, as before, were jumping
into shiny foreign cars at the Moscow Station, to emerge half an hour later
with bundles of bank notes, and the city’s procuring agencies continued to
supply girls and boys to their proven clientele and, as before, video
cassettes with child pornography were being sold in the city’s marketplaces.
On St. Petersburg’s streets, 11-year-old boys sell their younger sisters to
groups of drunken men for a handful of candy; their peers are engaged in oral
sex for two tubes of Moment glue. ECPAT:
Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for Action [DOC] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – [page 35]
According to the experts, most of the clients that buy sexual services
from children in foreign countries are either paedophiles
or middle aged men. Interviewees were not able to give approximate costs for
sexual services. It is thought that it depends on the specific nature of
service: sexual contact with a child under 12 years of age is more expensive
than with a minor over that age. Boys attract a more specific market and are
more expensive than girls. Both men and women purchase child sexual services
in Russia. They are often married, and are mainly Russian or from CIS
countries. North-West Russia and Saint Petersburg are the most accessible
markets for illegal sexual services for clients from western countries, such
as Finland, Sweden, Germany, Norway and England. However, Africa, Turkey,
Arabian countries, India, Iran, Japan
and the USA are mentioned among the more distant foreign countries. Clients
from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are also mentioned. Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] [63] Steps are currently being
taken to strengthen criminal liability for crimes committed against
juveniles. There is no criminal liability for engaging in
prostitution; accordingly, juveniles are not held
liable. Individuals who have reached 18 shall be criminally liable
for committing sexual intercourse, sodomy or a lesbian act (without the use
of force) with a person known not to have attained the age of 14. Crisis
Centres And Violence Against Women - Dialogue In
The E Barents Region [PDF] [p. 109] Tatiana Pyshkina,
Iosif Gurvich, Maia Rusakova and Anna Yakovleva, THE COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN IN ST.
PETERSBURG AND NORTH WEST RUSSIA: RUSSIAN LEGISLATION AND ACTIVITY OF
LAW-ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES Warping
the Future: A look at the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children CASE
STUDY #1: RUSSIAN FEDERATION; PAY THE RIGHT PRICE AND GET THE CHILD OF YOUR
CHOICE - Would you
prefer blond hair with blue eyes, red hair with green eyes or dark hair with
brown eyes? Does tiny and petite or tall and slender turn your crank?
Wherever the interests of the buyer lay, those of the seller are not far
behind. In Eastern Europe, specifically Child
Prostitution with Foreign Involvement in the North-Western Region of Russia
[DOC] Children of both genders are
involved into prostitution. A part of them provides homosexual services for
men and women. The children are drawn into prostitution beginning at age 9.
Often they are better developed physically than their age suggests. Rarely
they are underdeveloped. Half of them have mental-development deviations. As
persons, the children may be characterized with perverse interests, low
self-esteem, mercantile behavior, and low school results if they go to school
at all. They commonly suffer behavior disorders characterized by runaway,
abuse of alcohol and drugs, and suicide attempts. Their sexual life starts on
average at the age of 11, often after being raped by an adult family member
or by peers of their own age. The Incidence of Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Baltic Sea Region Russian National Consultation
on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Trafficking from
Russia & The CIS: History & Trends Looking Back, Thinking Forward - ECPAT's 4th Report on Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Since 1989, the trafficking of
children from the The Street Children Project in Vladivostok SOME STORIES ABOUT STREET CHILDREN - The legal age of consent for
sexual activity in Russia is 14 years of age. Some street kids pretend to be
14 years old, and so some of the girls work as prostitutes. Fourteen-year-old
"Veronica" became pregnant, and turned to our "mama" for
help. They went to the Caritas Women's Support Center where Veronica received
counseling and prenatal care. Veronica decided to keep her child, and Caritas
helped her to find an apartment that she could afford to rent, now that she
is old enough to work. – SCCP Médecins
du Monde Sweden carried out an assessment mission
to St Petersburg Street children are constituted in
groups of between 10 and 40. They congregate in places known as "tousovkas" . The tousovka
is often situated at metro and railway stations. These places provide shelter
and warmth in the evenings in a city where the temperature often drops to -25
degrees during winter. The tousovkas also provide
the street children with a means of financial and material support. Children can beg for cigarettes and money;
a significant number of the girls appeared to be involved in prostitution, as
well as many of the boys. The Kursky
railway station, just east of central Children face street
curfew in Moscow Finnish Court Imposes Heavy Fine on Man Using Services of Child Prostitutes in Russia The district court in the
southeastern coastal city of Trafficking
for Sexual Exploitation: The Case of the Russian Federation [PDF] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - For others, such as the new
groups of street children and orphans which did not exist in Russia ten years
ago, they are recruited at an early age, virtually sold into slavery, and may
never know another way of life. This is true for countless young Russian
girls and boys, some as young as 12 years of age, who may later become a part
of criminal syndicates themselves and perpetuate this phenomenon. In this
way, more and more people without options are lured into sub-human and
degrading conditions, often for the rest of their lives. - htsccp All material used herein
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