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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Rise in sexual abuse of minors in Ercan Yavuz,
Today’s Zaman, www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=144149 [accessed 1 January 2011] Drawing on statistics she gathered
working with experts and civil society groups, Arıtman
says 4 percent of all children in Turkey are subject to sexual abuse, with 70
percent of the victims being younger than 10. “Contrary to popular belief,
boys are subject to sexual abuse as frequently as girls. In reported cases of
children subject to commercial sexual exploitation, 77 percent of the
children came from broken homes. Twenty-three percent lived with their
parents, but in those homes domestic violence was common. The biggest risk
faced by children who run away and live on the street is sexual exploitation.
Children kidnapped from southeastern provinces are forced into prostitution
here. Today, it is impossible to say for certain how many children in Turkey
are being subjected to commercial sexual exploitation, but many say official
information is off by at least 85 percent.” According to research Polat conducted himself, the frequency of cases of sexual
abuse and exploitation is highest in the cities of İstanbul,
Diyarbakır and Bursa. Children trafficked from
countries such as ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - TURKEY [PDF] ECPAT International, 2008 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Europe/Global_Monitoring_Report-TURKEY_ENG.pdf [accessed 1 August 2011] Child prostitution is the main
form of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) in Many children who run away from
home head for Istanbul, the largest city, and some are forced into sexual
exploitation to survive. Most boys seem to run away for financial reasons (in
the hope of earning higher incomes), and because they lack a loving and
supportive family environment; girls seem to leave home for similar reasons
but also because of violence to which they were exposed at home. Some
children also travel to the city in search of the ‘easy and free’ lifestyle they
presume their friends are leading, only to find themselves in very difficult
circumstances. Lack of protection mechanisms targeting such migrant children
make them extremely vulnerable to sexual exploiters or intermediaries. In
addition, children surviving on the streets are sometimes ensnared into
prostitution through activities that they take up in the red-light districts,
such as selling basic items, and slowly start to see prostitution as a way to
earn a living. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/turkey.htm [accessed 1 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Girls are trafficked to Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61680.htm [accessed 1 January 2011] CHILDREN - In December two sociologists
published the results of their one‑year study on child prostitution in Human Rights Reports » 2004
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2004/41713.htm [accessed 9 March 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS – In May,
police took testimony from a 17-year-old Romanian victim who described a
common trafficking scenario. The victim reported that when she was in ninth
grade she came in contact with traffickers who promised her a job with good
wages in Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 8 June 2001 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/turkey2001.html [accessed 9 March 2011] [62] The Committee recommends that
the State party continue to undertake measures to prevent and combat all
forms of economic exploitation of children, including commercial sexual
exploitation. [63] While noting that a number of
centers have been established, with the collaboration of non-governmental
organizations, to provide counseling, training and rehabilitation services
for children living in the streets, the Committee nevertheless expresses its
concern at the significant number of such children and notes that assistance
is generally only provided to them by non-governmental organizations. Rise in sexual abuse of minors in Ercan Yavuz,
Today’s Zaman, www.todayszaman.com/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?load=detay&link=144149 [accessed 1 January 2011] Drawing on statistics she gathered
working with experts and civil society groups, Arıtman
says 4 percent of all children in Turkey are subject to sexual abuse, with 70
percent of the victims being younger than 10. “Contrary to popular belief,
boys are subject to sexual abuse as frequently as girls. In reported cases of
children subject to commercial sexual exploitation, 77 percent of the
children came from broken homes. Twenty-three percent lived with their
parents, but in those homes domestic violence was common. The biggest risk
faced by children who run away and live on the street is sexual exploitation.
Children kidnapped from southeastern provinces are forced into prostitution
here. Today, it is impossible to say for certain how many children in Turkey
are being subjected to commercial sexual exploitation, but many say official
information is off by at least 85 percent.” According to research Polat conducted himself, the frequency of cases of sexual
abuse and exploitation is highest in the cities of İstanbul,
Diyarbakır and Bursa. Children trafficked from
countries such as Woman jailed for forcing child into sex trade Independent Online (IOL) News, www.iol.co.za/news/world/woman-jailed-for-forcing-child-into-sex-trade-1.226224 [accessed 1 January 2011] Last week a non-governmental organisation said there was a growing trend in the
abduction and sale of Tajik boys for sexual exploitation abroad. The Modar organisation said groups
in the United Arab Emirates, Turkey,
Pakistan and other countries were prepared to pay as much as $70 000 for
a Tajik boy between the ages of 10 and 12. Bariş Altintaş,
Turkish Daily News, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 1 August 2011] SPREAD OF INTERNET USE FACILITATES
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY - However,
according to the report titled “Situational Analysis of Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children in The report found that the most
widely abused group of children was girls between 12 and 18 years old, but
that there was also a substantial number of boys who were victims of sexual
abuse. Child prostitution occurs in a variety of locales, ranging from slums
to the rich, and the culprits have no common profile other than being men. 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 – Country Narratives - Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, June
3, 2005 www.state.gov/g/tip/rls/tiprpt/2005/46616.htm#turkey [accessed 1 August 2011] ECPAT takes Make-IT-Safe to Turkey ECPAT, Make-IT-Safe Campaign Updates, 19-21 April 2005 www.make-it-safe.net/eng/campaign.asp#a3 [accessed 1 August 2011] One of the biggest international investigations
into child pornography on the Internet pointed to CSEC Overview ECPAT International At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 1 August 2011] Commercial sexual exploitation of
children has grown in Tajik court to try "pimp-mother" BBC Monitoring International, 9 July 2004 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 1 August 2011] In February 2002, the accused
adopted the underage girl, as it became known later, with a view to sexual
exploitation. She took the 12-year-old girl to the UAE three months
afterwards, where the girl (an ethnic Tatar) was for the first time forced
into prostitution. The following year, they stayed in In February 2003, they were
deported from the UAE, but this did not stop the resourceful
"mother", and the girl was taken to All material used herein
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