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FEATURED ARTICLE *** The Protection
Project - Suriname [DOC] The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/suriname.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT
CONTRIBUTE TO THE TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - Seventy percent of FORMS OF TRAFFICKING - Child
prostitution has reportedly increased in Suriname. Poor parents increasingly
bring their children into mining towns to work in the sex trade. Child labor is also considered a growing
problem in Suriname. Women are
reportedly recruited from Brazil as temporary wives to provide sex to miners
in Guyana and Suriname. Women are also
promised waitress or other jobs in ***
ARCHIVES *** 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/suriname/ [accessed 8
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the commercial sexual exploitation
of children, the sale of children, offering or procuring a child for child
prostitution, and practices related to child pornography. Authorities
prosecuted all reported violations. While the legal age of sexual consent is
14, trafficking-in-persons legislation makes illegal the sexual exploitation
of a person younger than age 18. Criminal law penalizes persons responsible
for recruiting children into prostitution and provides penalties of up to six
years’ imprisonment and a fine of SRD 100,000 ($13,300) for pimping. The law
also prohibits child pornography, which carries a maximum penalty of six
years’ imprisonment and maximum fine of SRD 50,000 ($6,650). Violations are
punishable by prison terms of up to 12 years. Lack of economic opportunities
led to an increasing number of adolescent boys and girls entering
prostitution to support family or to pay for education. One NGO reported
commercial sexual exploitation of children as young as 14. While not
generally marketed as a destination for child sex tourism, cases were
reported of tourists involved in sexual exploitation of children. Cases were
also reported of parents forcing their young children into prostitution. Several cases of
sexual exploitation, sexual and physical abuse, and neglect came to trial.
Victims included both boys and girls. Sentences range up to 10 years in
prison. 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 1091] Children in
Suriname, mostly boys, work at carrying heavy loads in small-scale gold
mines. These children risk exposure to mercury and cyanide, excessive noise,
extreme heat, and collapsing sand walls. (1,4,9,10) Children, including
children from Guyana, are subjected to commercial sexual exploitation in Suriname,
sometimes as a result of human trafficking, including in informal mining
camps in the country’s remote interior. (2,4,7,10) The government
continues to support initiatives to eradicate child labor, but existing social
programs are inadequate to fully address the problem. In particular, Suriname
lacks programs to assist child victims of human trafficking and commercial
sexual exploitation, as well as children who work in mining and agriculture.
(10,11) Concluding Observations
of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 2 June 2000 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/suriname2000.html [accessed 27
December 2010] [57] The Committee
expresses its concern about the increasing number of child victims of
commercial sexual exploitation, including prostitution and pornography,
involving both boys and girls. Concern is also expressed at the insufficient
programs for the physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration
of child victims of such abuse and exploitation. Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International,
November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13
September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Dying to Leave Thirteen, www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/episodes/dying-to-leave/human-trafficking-worldwide/suriname/1462/ [accessed 26
December 2010] VICTIMS - Roughly 30
percent of the population is younger than 14 years old, a situation that
makes juvenile street vendors, newspaper sellers, or shop assistants a common
sight on the streets of Tourism and Sex
Work in the Caribbean Kamala Kempadoo, 01/01/2001 www.crin.org/resources/infoDetail.asp?ID=975&flag=report [accessed 26 July
2011] This book focuses
on the experiences and views of women, men and children who sell sex. Apart
from attention to sex tourism in Presented by
Clarisse Pawironadi-Dasi, Acting Permanent
Secretary & Sector Coordinator Child Rights Promotion, Ministry of Social
Affairs and Housing, 18 December 2001 www.iin.oea.org/SURINAME_ing.PDF [accessed 27
December 2010] www.iin.oas.org/Congreso%20Explotation%20Sexual/SURINAME_ing.PDF [accessed 15
November 2016] [page 5] IDENTIFICATION -
REASONS FOR INVOLVING CHILDREN IN CSW - The Sex Workers were able to describe many
reasons for involving their children in Commercial Sex Work (CSW). Several
accounts below are taken directly from the questionnaires: 1. Most cited money
(or lack thereof) as reason for involving children in sex work. Because
clients were found to pay more for sex with children, the temptation to
involve them in sex work is very strong 2. Some women
allowed a neighbor to have sex with their child to cover the utilities/rent.
Often the mothers found themselves with no food, no electricity, or no water.
Regional Governmental Congress on Sexual Exploitation of Children 3. “Business is
slow”: (clients no longer want to be with aging mother) and clients offered a
lot more money for a child. One mother sold her 8 year old daughter because
clients were no longer Interested in her (quite a few expressed anger and
hurt that clients no longer found them desirable). 4. In many cases,
the Commercial Sex Work (CSW) stated that it was the partner’s idea to
increase income. The Commercial Sex Work (CSW) generally denied involvement
in any part of the decision making. 5. The
pimp/concubine/father sold children (to friends or at gold mine) without the
permission or knowledge of the Commercial Sex Workers (CSW). Regional
Governmental Congress on Sexual Exploitation of Children [PDF] Clarisse Pawironadi-Dasi, Acting Permanent Secretary & Sector
Coordinator Child Rights Promotion, Ministry of Social Affairs and Housing www.iin.oas.org/Congreso%20Explotation%20Sexual/SURINAME_ing.PDF [accessed 19
November 2016] ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/suriname.htm [accessed 27
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 - Commercial sexual exploitation of girls and boys is
allegedly increasing in TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
– There also were reports of underage Hindustani and Maroon girls and
Javanese and Hindustani boys trafficked within the country for prostitution by recruiters or
caretakers. All
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