C S E C The Commercial Sexual
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims International Organization for
Migration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Prostitution
on the rise UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, www.irinnews.org/report/28974/turkmenistan-prostitution-on-the-rise [accessed 13 March
2015] There is an unprecedented situation in Turkmenistan when [some] husbands, fathers and brothers push their wives, daughters and sisters into illegal ways, including prostitution, because they don't have a job and means to get by, Even more disturbing,
the report alleged that parents had taken to selling their daughters and
setting up brothels in their homes in this otherwise traditional society. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Regional
Overview: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in the Commonwealth
of Independent States [PDF] ECPAT International,
November 2014 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Regional%20CSEC%20Overview_CIS%20(English).pdf [accessed 8
September 2020] Maps sexual
exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT), online child sexual
exploitation (OCSE), trafficking of children for sexual purposes, sexual
exploitation of children through prostitution, and child early and forced
marriage (CEFM). Topics include: domestic violence, HIV/AIDS, gender
discrimination, corruption, Roma children 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/turkmenistan/ [accessed 8
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The legal age of consent is 16. The law forbids the production
of pornographic materials or objects for distribution, as well as the
advertisement or trade in text, movies or videos, graphics, or other objects
of a pornographic nature, including those involving children. 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 2 August
2011] [73] Child prostitution
is not considered to be a serious problem in the country and no information
is available about the existence of sale and trafficking of children and
child pornography. UNICEF reported a good working relationship
with the Inspectorates for Juvenile Affairs, the main actors in the child
system in The Protection
Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/turkemenistan.doc [accessed 2009] FORMS
OF TRAFFICKING -
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) estimates that Central
Asia “is becoming the most important geographical source of trafficking in
women in ECPAT: ECPAT International www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/countries.asp?arrCountryID=179&CountryProfile= &CSEC=Overview&Implement=&Nationalplans=&orgWorkCSEC=&DisplayBy=optDisplayCountry [Last access date
unavailable] CSEC
OVERVIEW -
Many people became drug addicts and drug dealers. According to evaluation
data, 50-60% of Turkmen youth are addicted to drugs. The drug trafficking
network in the country is very developed. Opium and heroin are sold
everywhere openly. CHILD
PROSTITUTION -
The code prohibits sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16.
Punishment for the offence is imprisonment for 2 to 5 years. The penalty may
increase to imprisonment for 8 years if the acts are committed in a perverted
form. ***
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/2005/61681.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] WOMEN – Prostitution is
illegal, but remained a growing problem throughout the country that the
authorities did not counter effectively. All
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