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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 *** 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] 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. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61744.htm [accessed 7 January 2011] TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS -
According to police sources, commercial sexual exploitation of women and
children occurred mostly in the states bordering 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. 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 All
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