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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Street Children of Sierra Leone Lead
Brutal, Dangerous Life Gabi Menezes,
Voice of At one time this article had been archived and
may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] A decade of
conflict has made poverty in At a truck park in
the eastern part of the capital, many children come to sleep in the empty
shells of cars. Prostitutes and drug addicts also come there. Eight-year-old
Hannah Masany was found in the parking lot. She had
been out on the streets since she was six. Hannah's father was killed during
the war, and her mother could not afford to look after her. Hannah said that she was not afraid on the
streets, as older street children helped take care of her. But many girls as
young as Hannah will have sex with men in order to earn enough money to
eat. "People come along -- it is
a kind of enterprise which has just developed recently, it's a very quick way
of getting money," says ACC Senior Councilor John B. Koroma. ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/sierra-leone.htm [accessed 22 December 2010] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Child prostitution is an increasing problem.
Children have been trafficked to Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61591.htm [accessed 22 December 2010] CHILDREN - Child prostitution was a
problem. To address the issue of child
prostitution in the capital, the Freetown City Council discussed the
introduction of a regulation that would bar minors from nightclubs, a common
venue for commercial sex transactions, but by year's end the city council had
taken no action to pass such a regulation. SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] Many girls, particularly those displaced from their homes and with few
resources, resorted to prostitution as a means to support themselves. The international
NGO World Vision continued to help child prostitutes (girls between the ages
of 14 and 20) by paying their school fees, providing them with educational
materials, and caring for girl mothers. Out of 304 girls assisted, 86 were
full-time sex workers. Concluding Observations Of The Committee On
The Rights Of The Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child,
28 January 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/sierraleone2000.html [accessed 22 December 2010] [85] The Committee is
concerned that provisions in national domestic legislation providing
protection to children from sexual exploitation and abuse only offer such
protection to children up to the age of 14. [87] The Committee
expresses its deep concern with regard to the many incidents of sexual
exploitation and abuse of children, particularly in the context of the
conscription or abduction of children by armed persons and in the context of
attacks on civilian populations by armed persons, and particularly with
regard to girls. The Committee is also concerned at reports of commercial
sexual exploitation and of widespread sexual abuse of girls within the
family, within internally displaced person camps and within communities. Street Children of Gabi Menezes,
Voice of At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] A decade of
conflict has made poverty in At a truck park in
the eastern part of the capital, many children come to sleep in the empty
shells of cars. Prostitutes and drug addicts also come there. Eight-year-old
Hannah Masany was found in the parking lot. She had
been out on the streets since she was six. Hannah's father was killed during
the war, and her mother could not afford to look after her. Hannah said that she was not afraid on the
streets, as older street children helped take care of her. But many girls as
young as Hannah will have sex with men in order to earn enough money to eat. "People come along -- it is a kind of
enterprise which has just developed recently, it's a very quick way of
getting money," says ACC Senior Councilor John B. Koroma. ECPAT: Country Report - ECPAT International At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] As a result of the
civil war and the massive displacement of the population in the urban areas,
particularly ECPAT: CSEC in ECPAT International Newsletters, Issue No :
34 1/March/2001 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] PERPETRATORS - The majority of
perpetrators are rich local nationals like civil servants, politicians and businessmen.
Other perpetrators are foreign tourists and, in countries affected by armed
conflict, military personnel. As a result of the war in UN Special Envoy for Children and Armed
Conflict applauds progress United Nations Press Release, www.unhchr.ch/huricane/huricane.nsf/view01/40658142EEC597B4C1256CDE002C8734?opendocument [accessed 18 July 2011] At the conclusion
of a week-long visit to Sierra Leone (22-28 February), Under-Secretary-General
Olara A. Otunnu, the
Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed
Conflict, has called upon the international community to continue to support
the country in the peace-building period so that the impressive gains made so
far in the rehabilitation and protection of war-affected children can be
strengthened and sustained. Efforts must also
be undertaken, the Special Representative said, to expand programs benefiting
children and improve social services in the rural areas to counter the abject
poverty afflicting families which in turn causes children to work in the
streets, to beg or to prostitute themselves. And with children all over the
country expressing their desire to attend school, Mr. Otunnu
said, a major effort is needed by Government and international partners to
improve on low enrolment rates and conditions in schools. News Archives (sierra-leone.org) News Archives, June 2003 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 18 July 2011] [Scroll down to 11
June] The Internationally Recognized Core Labor
Standards In International Confederation Of Free Trade
Unions (ICFTU), Report For The Wto General Council
Review Of The Trade Policies Of www.icftu.org/www/pdf/clssierraleone2005.pdf [accessed 18 July 2011] This report
assesses the observance of internationally recognized core labor standards in
UN High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR, Refugee Children: Guidelines on Protection
and Care Human Rights Watch Report, Forgotten
Children of War - Sierra Leonean Refugee Children in www.hrw.org/legacy/reports/1999/guinea/guine997.htm#P77_1744 [accessed 18 July 2011] Human Rights Watch
also identified a serious problem of child prostitution in the camps, where
girls as young as twelve said that they feel compelled to "play sex for
money" in order to support themselves and, in some cases, their
families. As with the problem of sexual violence, very little has been done
by UNHCR to understand the problem of child prostitution in the camps in Reports that child refugees sexually
exploited shock Annan UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=30517 [accessed 18 July 2011] Refugee children in
Sexual Exploitation of Refugees in Save The Children Fund & United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees, 2002 sheltercentre.org/library/sexual+exploitation+refugees+west+africa [accessed 18 July 2011] This
assessment was initiated by UNHCR and Save the Children-UK (SC-UK) due to
growing concerns, based on their field experience, about the nature and
extent of sexual violence and exploitation of refugee children and other
children of concern to UNHCR 1 in the countries of the Mano
River Sub Region 2 in SIERRA LEONE: Agencies act on issues of
sexual abuse UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
IRIN In-Depth, www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=32315 [accessed 18 July 2011] In February, UNHCR
and Save the Children-UK reported that refugee children in The UNHCR/SCF
report said the exchange of sex for money or gifts appeared widespread. The
victims were mostly girls aged 13 to 18, while the most vulnerable group
comprised orphans and children separated from one or both parents. The
perpetrators "are often men in positions of relative power and influence
who either control access to goods and services or who have wealth and/or
income," the report said. All
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