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rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction, hunger, neglect,
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Draw comparisons between activity in adjacent countries and/or
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims FIZ Makasi
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Experts warn of
teenage prostitution trend Thomas Stephens, swissinfo, Oct 28, 2008 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/Home/Archive/Experts_warn_of_teenage_prostitution_trend.html?cid=7002010 [accessed 26 July
2011] Teenage girls in The Swiss Child
Protection Association has called for the age of consent in Switzerland to be
raised from 16 to 18 in the case of prostitutes. It warned that because the legal age for
prostitution in neighbouring Germany was 21 and in
France and Italy 18, Switzerland risked becoming a "paradise for
tourists seeking teenage sex".
"We have to close this legal loophole," said Ruth-Gaby Vermot, a former parliamentarian who sits on the
association's board. "Otherwise our slack legislation will attract
punters from abroad who know they can have sex [with 16- or 17-year-olds] and
not get punished." Prostitution is
legal in Switzerland. The age of consent is 16, although if the age gap
between parties is three years or less – for example between a 13-year-old
and a 15-year-old – no charges can be brought. Study on Child
Prostitution ECPAT International
Newsletters - Issue No:27 1/May/1999 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 26 July
2011] [scroll down] ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Jessica Klinke & Elphie Galland, ECPAT International, 2012 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/A4A_V2_EU_SWITZERLAND.pdf [accessed 8
September 2020] [FRENCH] ECPAT’s Global
Youth Partnership Project for Child Survivors and Youth at Risk of Commercial
Sexual Exploitation (YPP) acknowledges the important role children and youth
can play in the fight against sexual exploitation of children. This manual
outlines good practices for organizations who seek to implement similar
projects. 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/switzerland/ [accessed 8
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits commercial sexual exploitation,
sale, offering or procuring for prostitution, and practices related to child
pornography. Authorities enforced the law. The production, possession,
distribution, or downloading of internet pornography that involves children
is illegal and punishable by fines or a maximum sentence of one year in
prison. With few exceptions, the law designates 16 as the minimum age for
consensual sex. The maximum penalty for statutory rape is imprisonment for 10
years. The mandate of the federal police Cybercrime Coordination Unit
included preventing and prosecuting crimes involving the sexual exploitation
of children online. According to SSP statistics, nearly 300 children were
sexually abused in 2018. The law prohibits
prostitution of persons under the age of 18 and punishes pimps of children
subjected to trafficking in commercial sex with prison sentences of up to 10
years. It provides for sentences of up to three years in prison for persons
engaging in commercial sex with children. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 7 June 2002 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/switzerland2002.html [accessed 28
December 2010] [52] While
welcoming the amendments to the Penal Code prohibiting the possession of
hard-core pornography, including child pornography and the establishment of a
new centre against cyber-crime in 2003, the Committee remains concerned at
the lack of knowledge about the scope of sexual exploitation of children, in
particular vulnerable groups, in the State party. Five Years After
Stockholm [PDF] 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 – Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and
Social Council Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January
2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 26 July
2011] [69] The Penal Code
criminalizes the trafficking of human beings for the purpose of sexual
exploitation. One case involving a
minor was reported in 1997 and two in 1998.
A parliamentary commission is currently examining proposed legislation
to improve the situation of foreign victims of trafficking. The encouragement of a
minor to prostitute him-/herself, the use of children in the production of
pornography, and, since April 2002, the possession of child pornography are
criminal offences. However, children
who have reached the age of sexual consent (16) may legally prostitute
themselves. ECPAT ECPAT International At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 26 July
2011] RECENT ACTIVITIES: In a previous
year, ECPAT Switzerland conducted research into the incidence of CSEC in ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights Reports
» 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41711.htm [accessed 5 April
2020] CHILDREN
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respect to the prosecution of child sexual abuse abroad, the law provides for
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