C S E C The Commercial Sexual
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Unveiling Iraq's
Teenage Prostitutes Joshua E.S.
Phillips, Salon, 24 June 2005 dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/06/24/prostitutes/index.html [accessed 27 July
2011] www.salon.com/2005/06/24/prostitutes_4/ [accessed 15
November 2016] FLEEING THEIR
WAR-TORN HOMES, IRAQI GIRLS ARE SELLING THEIR BODIES IN SYRIA TO SUPPORT
THEIR FAMILIES
- For the most part, Iraqi refugees are living off their savings, which are
drained by daily expenses. Many are stuck in Syria, as few Western
embassies are now granting visas, claiming that Iraq has become a liberated
country following the fall of Saddam. With economic conditions
worsening all the time for refugees, officials say, it's no surprise that
Syria is seeing a rise in child exploitation and prostitution. Still,
given the growing awareness of the problems facing Iraqi refugees -- violence,
restricted mobility, diminishing finances -- one wonders why child
prostitution in ***
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. 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/syria/ [accessed 8
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law stipulates penalties for those found guilty
of certain forms of child abuse associated with trafficking crimes, including
kidnapping and forced prostitution, both of which carry a penalty of up to
three years in prison. The law considers child pornography a trafficking
crime, but the punishment for child pornography was set at the local level
with “appropriate penalties.” It was also unclear if there had been any
prosecutions for child pornography or if authorities enforced the law. The age of sexual
consent by law is 15 with no close-in-age exemption. Premarital sex is
illegal, but observers reported authorities did not enforce the law. Rape of
a child younger than 15 is punishable by not less than 21 years’ imprisonment
and hard labor. There were no reports of regime prosecution of child rape
cases. Amnesty urges help
for Iraqi refugees Shafika Mattar,
Associated Press AP, abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=3415758 [Last access date
unavailable] Amnesty said it
visited 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 27 July
2011] [70]
The Government reported that there are no laws pertaining to the issue
of sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography as it does not
constitute a social or religious problem and is a rare phenomenon. Commercial sexual
exploitation of children is not present in Syria Arabic News,
1/9/2002 www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020109/2002010936.html [accessed 28
December 2010] Al-Sheikh added
that in his presentation to the Congress he pointed out that the problem of
commercial sexual exploitation of children is not present in Iraqi children
forced into prostitution in Syria Business Travellers against Human Trafficking, Global news on
human trafficking, 6/24/2005 businesstravellers-org.web26.winsvr.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryID/987/Default.aspx [accessed 28
December 2010] [scroll down] There is growing
evidence of Iraqi children being used as prostitutes in 5.1 Middle East -
State of ECPAT International,
November 2000 -- Looking Back Thinking Forward - The fourth report on the implementation
of the Agenda for Action adopted at the World Congress against Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children held in At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 27 July
2011] While
Commercial
sexual exploitation of children - Middle East/ based on the
situation analysis written by Dr Najat M’jid for the
Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Rabat, Morocco,
24-26 October 2001 -- Source document (in French): Rapport sur la situation
de l’exploitation sexuelle
des enfants dans la région MENA, 10 septembre 2001 www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 27 July
2011] These countries
also have in common, however, a number of constraints that have hindered
preparation of national plans of action. In all the countries of the region,
there is cultural resistance to addressing the problem because the subject is
largely taboo. Often the issue is
dealt with more generally under headings such as ‘violence’ and
‘trauma’. This means that there has
been no regional consensus on defining CSEC in law; in some countries, for
example, it is looked upon as an indecent act, in others as rape, although in
all 20 countries there is some section of the penal code that can be invoked
against sexual abuse and exploitation. ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** Human Rights Reports
» 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61699.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] CHILDREN
- Child
prostitution and trafficking in children were rare; incidents that arose
mainly involved destitute orphans. ECPAT: Limited
information is available ECPAT International,
Child Prostitution, Country Report - Seria At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 27 July
2011] Limited information
is available on child prostitution in All
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