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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims Direction Générale
de la Protection de l’Enfant (DGPE) ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Suffering to
succeed - Violence and abuse in schools in Togo [PDF] Plan www.crin.org/docs/plan_ed_togo.pdf [accessed 31 July
2011] Sexually
transmitted marks - One of the consequences of the proliferation of violence
in Togolese schools is that there appears to be a crisis of confidence in the
education system among schoolchildren themselves, certainly in the areas when
Plan • you’ve agreed to
have sex with the teacher, or you’ve refused • you’ve worked in
the teacher’s fields, or you haven’t • you’ve offered
money and gifts to the teacher, or you haven’t • you’re a boy
who’s regarded by a male teacher as a competitor for a certain girl, so
you’re marked down – or believe you’re marked down Plan Child prostitution
goes unchecked in Togo U.N. Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report/49619/togo-child-prostitution-goes-unchecked-in-togo [accessed 13 March
2015] Adjo is 11 years old and
tries hard to look sexy in her black mini-skirt and skin-tight blue swimsuit
top. She told IRIN over a drink in a
bar filled with cigarette smoke and drug dealers lurking in the background
that she likes foreign customers best. They pay better and treat her more
respectfully than Togolese men. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] Guillaume Velard et Jessica Klinke, ECPAT
International, 2011 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/a4a_v2_af_togo_0.pdf [accessed 8
September 2020] [FRENCH] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Togo.
The report looks at protection mechanisms, responses, preventive measures,
child and youth participation in fighting SEC, and makes recommendations for
action against SEC. 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/togo/ [accessed 8
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the commercial sexual exploitation
of children, including the sale and offering or procuring of children for
prostitution, and practices related to child pornography,
and provides penalties for those convicted of up to 20 years’
imprisonment and fines of 25 million to 50 million CFA francs ($42,400 to
$84,900). For conviction of violations involving children younger than 15,
prison sentences may be up to 10 years. The law was not effectively enforced.
The minimum age of consensual sexual conduct is 16 for boys and girls. The law prohibits
child pornography, and penalties for conviction are five to 10 years’
imprisonment. 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 1128] Social programs
focus on alleviating poverty and promoting education rather than targeting
specific sectors of child labor, such as domestic work, and the government
relies heavily on NGOs and international organizations for implementation.
(10,46) A shortage of funds may hinder program
implementation. (46) As a result, the scope of existing programs is
insufficient to fully address the extent of the problem, including in commercial
sexual exploitation and domestic work. Many of these interventions may not be
sustainable over the long term. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 28 January 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/togo2005b.html [accessed 30
December 2010] [70] While noting
the efforts made by the State party to prevent and combat sexual exploitation
of children, the Committee is concerned that: (a) little data is
available on the extent and patterns of sexual exploitation and prostitution
of children; (b) that Existing
legislation intended to protect children from sexual exploitation and
prostitution is neither sufficient nor effective; and (c) that child
victims of sexual exploitation often do not receive adequate protection
and/or recovery assistance. Koranic schools in
Senegal fuel child trafficking Reuters, www.wilayahnetwork.com/news/?id=13836 [accessed 31 July
2011] Until recently most
countries in Committee
on the Rights of the Child (CRC) - Summary Record of 1018th Meeting UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 1 February 2005 www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/%28Symbol%29/CRC.C.SR.1018.En?OpenDocument [accessed 31 July
2011] [5] Ms. Boyoti-N'DadiyA ( 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 – TOGO
– The government department Direction de la Protection et Promotion de la Famille et de l’Enfant reports
that Togo’s national plan on child abuse and child trafficking has been
helpful in the fight against CSEC. Civil society is more sensitized; the
Department receives CSEC related complaints almost daily; law enforcement
officers are more aware; and more perpetrators are being prosecuted. However,
full implementation of the plan is still a problem because of financial
difficulties. Child Trafficking
in Togo: A Way Out Livina Nkiruka
Agwunobi, 14
September 2004 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 31 July
2011] Sometimes, children
are left to the lender as a pawn for a borrowed sum. They are, sometimes,
left in exchange for money to a female or male agent without the parents
having the chance to influence his fate after the deal. They are recruited or
brought by agents in Clamp down on child
prostitution Agence France-Presse AFP, www.news24.com/Africa/News/Clamp-down-on-child-prostitution-20050731 [accessed 1 August
2011] In Dekon, one of Lome's poor neighbourhoods, the Devissime
or young girls' market as it is known in the local language Mina, is one of
the city's busiest prostitution zones. 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 1 August
2011] SEX TOURISM - Child sex
tourism has been reported in CONFRONTING
THE PROBLEM
- Increasingly governments are willing to acknowledge that CSEC is a growing
problem within their borders, as well as the region, and are making efforts
to combat it. The Togolese government, for example, has developed a national
action plan on child trafficking and child abuse. The Department for the
Protection and Promotion of the Family and of Children has been carrying out
education and sensitization campaigns against sexual exploitation and the
trafficking of children for sexual purposes. In addition, it has been
cooperating with governments of neighboring countries, particularly NATIONAL
ACTION PLAN
- The Stockholm Declaration and Agenda for Action on the Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children was adopted by 122 governments in 1996. Fourteen
countries from ***
EARLIER EDITIONS OF SOME OF THE ABOVE *** ECPAT Global
Monitoring Report on the status of action against commercial exploitation of
children - TOGO [PDF] ECPAT International,
2007 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/AF/Global_Monitoring_Report-TOGO.pdf [accessed 31 July
2011] There is a general
perception among social workers and professionals working in child protection
that the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/togo.htm [accessed 30
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 - UNICEF estimated that 66.2 percent of children ages
5 to 14 years were working in Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices 2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61597.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
- There were
reports that young girls were trafficked to The country was a
transit point for children trafficked from All
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