C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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situation in HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking
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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
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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 Rwandan National Police ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Saving the street
kids of Kigali The www.canada.com/theprovince/news/unwind/story.html?id=0f5a755d-7d67-4040-b7bf-0cb8d01058ae [accessed 15 July
2011] ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Regional
Overview: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Africa [PDF] ECPAT International,
November 2014 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Regional%20CSEC%20Overview_Africa.pdf [accessed 7
September 2020] Maps sexual
exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child sexual
exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes, sexual
exploitation of children through prostitution, and child early and forced
marriage (CEFM). Other topics include gender inequality, armed conflicts,
natural disasters, migration, and HIV/AIDS. 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/rwanda/ [accessed 7
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - By law sexual relations with a child younger than age
18 constitutes child defilement for which conviction is punishable by 20
years to life in prison depending on the age of the victim. The law prohibits
sexual exploitation of children and child pornography, for which conviction
is punishable by life imprisonment and a fine of 10 million to 15 million
Rwandan francs ($10,990 to $16,480). Conviction statistics were not
available. The 2018 Antitrafficking law prohibits
the commercial sexual exploitation of children, conviction of which is
punishable by life imprisonment and a fine of 15 million to 20 million
Rwandan francs ($16,480 to $21,980). The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/rwanda.htm [accessed 20
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 an estimated 7,000 street children in Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 8 October 1993 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/RWANDA.htm [accessed 5 March
2011] [5] In view of
recent developments in US names Kenya in
Slavery Report Kevin J Kelley,
Daily Nation, www.ogiek.org/news/news-post-04-06-4.htm [accessed 15 July
2011] Sex tourism is
becoming more common on the Coast, the Orphans of the
Genocide Albert P'Rayan, Worldpress.org, www.worldpress.org/Africa/355.cfm [accessed 15 July
2011] That many of the
girls who come through shelters and missions in Kigali work as prostitutes
and risk contracting HIV is of equal concern to aid workers. "It's
difficult… they are unstable," says one of Dion's aides, who identified
herself only as Madame Eugenie. "The girls I see spend most of their
days in the mission. In the evening, many go to the nightclubs and work as
prostitutes for the money they need to survive. Lasting Wounds:
Consequences of Genocide and War for Human Rights Watch
Report, March 2003 -- Vol. 15, No. 5 (A) www.hrw.org/reports/2003/rwanda0403/rwanda0403-07.htm [accessed 16 July
2011] VII. CHILDREN ON THE
STREETS
– SEXUAL VIOLENCE
AGAINST STREET GIRLS
- While less numerous than street boys, girls living on the streets
experience most of the same problems as boys and, in addition, are frequently
subjected to sexual violence. A local NGO recently reported that 80 percent
of street girls have been victims of rape, while another study puts the
figure as high as 93 percent. One study found that girls who turn to the
streets are generally younger than street boys. Street girls are often
invisible because they do not travel around in gangs as boys do, staying
generally on their own or in small groups. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61587.htm [accessed 10
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
- Due to the genocide and deaths from HIV/AIDS, there were numerous children
who headed households, and some of these children resorted to prostitution or
may have been trafficked into domestic servitude. UNICEF estimated in 2004
that there were 2,140 child prostitutes in the major cities and several
thousand street children throughout the country. All
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