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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Life Gabi Menezes, Voice of At one time this article had been archived and may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
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