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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims International Organization for
Migration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** Sex Exploitation a
Growing Problem Raul Ronzoni, Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/42/218.html [accessed 8 August
2011] “The money that
Yamila took in daily was generally the only thing sustaining the family”, her
mother said when a court prosecuted her for the crime of inherent omission of
the duties of parental authority. The mother denied that she forced her
daughter into prostitution. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Country
Monitoring Report [PDF] ECPAT International,
2006 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Global_Monitoring_Report-URUGUAY.pdf [accessed 9
September 2020] [SPANISH] Desk review of existing
information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Uruguay. 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/uruguay/ [accessed 9
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law prohibits the commercial sexual exploitation of
children and child pornography. Authorities made efforts to enforce the law.
In 2018 INAU addressed more than 380 cases of commercial sexual exploitation
of children. The human trafficking law defines the use, recruitment, or
offering of children and adolescents for sexual exploitation as a form of
trafficking. The law establishes the minimum age for consensual sex as 12.
When a sexual union takes place between an adult and a minor younger than age
15, violence is presumed and the statutory rape law, which carries a penalty
of two to 12 years in prison, may be applied. Penalties for child sex
trafficking range from four to 16 years in prison. The penalty for child
pornography ranges from one to six years in prison, and the law was
effectively enforced. The National Committee for the Eradication of the
Commercial and Noncommercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents
continued to implement its national action plan for 2016-21. The Department of
Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/uruguay.htm [accessed 7 January
2011] 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 - In 2002, the state government of Maldonado reported
that sex tourism and child prostitution had increased in a number of
locations in the state. There are also
reports of child prostitution in rural areas with high unemployment rates.. Several types of prostitution have been
reported, including of very poor and homeless children around factories and
in slums, in downtown bars and pubs, on the street, and through pimps. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 11 October 1996 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/uruguay1996.html [accessed 7 January
2011] [6] The Committee is
concerned at the insufficient measures adopted to harmonize national
legislation with the principles and provisions of the Convention. [7] The Committee,
while recognizing the efforts undertaken by the authorities in the collection
of data, is concerned at the insufficient measures adopted to collect
disaggregated data on the situation of all children, particularly those
belonging to the most disadvantaged groups. 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 – The National
Institute for Minors (Instituto Nacional del Menor) has created a commission to address CSEC. At the
time of publication, the commission had only been formed for a month. The
fact that a commission had been formed indicates that the Uruguayan
government is finally taking a step, albeit an initial one, to address the
problem. Trafficking
In Persons Report - 2004 US Embassy, At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 8 August
2011] [18.C] The number
of minors engaged in prostitution has increased in the past year according to
AMEPU, Casa de los Ninos,
IIN and INAME. The increase is attributed to the sustained economic problems
in the country, a dwindling middle class and a growing number of families
that are subsisting in poverty. The result is a growing acceptance by poor
families of child prostitution as a source of income. La Casa de los
Niños Casa de los Niños www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/59a35a7764a234e77aed61e1f3f2f52d [accessed 8 August
2011] La Casa de los Niños focuses on two kinds of
activities. The first is to develop programs to treat and rehabilitate
victims of commercial and non-commercial sexual exploitation of
children. The second type of activity
is the continuous training of professionals from all fields related to this
problem (police, judicial system, education system, health care system) and
social operators from different intervention levels in the detection of CSEC. Regional
Governmental Congress on Sexual Exploitation of Children [PDF] Martín Marzano Luissi, President National Children’s Institute, Uruguay
and Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents www.iin.oas.org/Congreso%20Explotation%20Sexual/M.Marzano_Uruguay_ingles.PDF [accessed 19
November 2016] ***
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/2005/61744.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS -
According to police sources, commercial sexual exploitation of women and
children occurred mostly in the states bordering All
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