C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
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CAUTION: The following links
and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in South Sudan. Some of these
links may lead to websites that present allegations that are unsubstantiated,
misleading or even false. No attempt
has been made to validate their authenticity or to verify their content. HOW TO USE THIS WEBPAGE Students If you are looking for
material to use in a term-paper, you are advised to scan the postings on this
page and others to see which aspects of child prostitution are of 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 lot to the
subject of Child Prostitution. 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. ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Sudanese children
abducted for fighting and sex-UN Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/idUSL0817452320070608 [accessed 26
December 2010] It voiced concern
that "abductions of children continue to occur for forced recruitment,
forced labour, and in some instances, sexual exploitation, especially in
Darfur and South Sudan". The committee also
had information that children may resort to prostitution or be forced into
early marriages as "a means for survival in exchange of food, money or
basic goods". – htsccp ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Regional
Overview – Sexual Exploitation of Children Middle East and North Africa [PDF] Zina Khoury and Sirsa Qursha, ECPAT International, 2020 [accessed 8
September 2020] This Regional
Overview on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA), consolidates the relevant
existing data to map the context, risk factors, region-specific issues,
responses and gaps in the fight against the issue. In addition to providing
external audiences with a summary and analysis of the SEC, this report will
also serve as an advocacy tool that highlights good practices by governments
and other actors, and identifies opportunities for improvements. Keywords:
child marriage, war and conflict, LQBTQI, SOGIE, gender norms, taboo. 2020 Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices: South Sudan U.S. Dept of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and
Labor, 30 March 2021 www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-rights-practices/south-sudan/
[accessed 25 June
2021] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN The law designates
a minimum age 18 for consensual sex, although commercial sexual exploitation
of children occurred. Perpetrators convicted of child prostitution and child
trafficking may be sentenced to up to 14 years’ imprisonment, although
authorities rarely enforced the law. Child prostitution and child trafficking
both occurred, particularly in urban areas. Freedom House
Country Reports 2020 Edition freedomhouse.org/country/south-sudan/freedom-world/2020 [accessed 6 May 2020] G4. DO INDIVIDUALS
ENJOY EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM FROM ECONOMIC EXPLOITATION? Trafficking in
persons for forced labor and sexual exploitation is widespread, with rural
women and girls, the internally displaced, and migrants from neighboring
countries among the most vulnerable to mistreatment. The use of child
soldiers is also a serious problem. In September 2019, the UN warned that
child recruitment was increasing, and that more girls were forced to provide
labor, including sex work. 2018 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child Labor,
Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor Affairs,
US Dept of Labor, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 8
September 2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 1074] In 2018, the South
Sudanese government cooperated with UNODC to deliver the country’s first
workshop on identifying and investigating cases of human trafficking. (15)
Despite this effort, South Sudan’s justice system faces enormous challenges,
such as low capacity, insufficient funding, interference by the government
and the SSPDF, lack of training for law enforcement personnel, and a scarcity
of judges, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. (9,13,26,27)
Research indicates that prosecutors and law enforcement officials are not
familiar with legal statutes regarding the worst forms of child labor. (9,13) As a result, police continued to indiscriminately
arrest and imprison children engaged in commercial sexual exploitation rather
than treating them as victims. (13) All
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