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and accompanying text have been culled from the web to illuminate the
situation in Venezuela. Some of these
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some succeed in leaving. Perhaps your
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rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction, hunger, neglect,
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FEATURED ARTICLE *** Trafficking and
Sexual Exploitation Between Venezuela and Ecuador Survivors' Rights
International SRI, July 17, 2003 At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 15 August
2011] BACKGROUND - Children from ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Regional
Overview: The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Latin America [PDF] ECPAT International,
November 2014 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Regional%20CSEC%20Overview_Latin%20America%20(English).pdf [accessed 10
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). Other topics include social inequality, gender
discrimination, gangs and armed conflicts, and child poverty. 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/venezuela/ [accessed 10
September 2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - By law sexual relations with a minor younger than 13,
with an “especially vulnerable” person, or with a minor younger than 16 when
the perpetrator is a relative or guardian, are punishable with a mandatory
sentence of 15 to 20 years’ imprisonment. The law prohibits the forced
prostitution and corruption of minors. Penalties range from 15 to 20 years’
imprisonment in cases of forced labor and some forms of sex trafficking of
women and girls. The law requires a demonstration of force, fraud, or
coercion to constitute child sex trafficking. The law prohibits the
production and sale of child pornography and establishes penalties of 16 to
20 years’ imprisonment. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/venezuela.htm [accessed 16 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 - Children are also involved in begging, petty theft
on the streets, prostitution, and drug trafficking. Venezuela is a
destination, transit, and source country for children trafficked for the
purpose of sexual exploitation. Children are trafficked internally for labor
and sexual exploitation. CURRENT
GOVERNMENT POLICIES AND PROGRAMS TO ELIMINATE THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR - The National
Institute for Minors has made efforts to address the commercial sexual
exploitation of children by establishing Local Social Protection networks for
children and adolescents who are at high risk. These networks are comprised
of public and private institutions and organizations that contribute toward
the development of a coordinated local plan in regions of the country where
children are most vulnerable. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 8 October 1999 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/venezuela1999.html [accessed 16 January
2011] [32] The Committee
expresses its concern at the absence of data and of a comprehensive study on
the issue of sexual commercial exploitation and sexual abuse of children, at the
lack of a national plan of action to address this issue and at the inadequacy
of the State party's legislation to deal with it. Concluding
Observations of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights 21 May 2001 www.unhcr.org/refworld/publisher,CESCR,CONCOBSERVATIONS,VEN,3cc7f9e86,0.html [accessed 26 August
2011] [16] The Committee is
alarmed about the high rate of domestic violence and the extent of child
prostitution and trafficking in children, and regrets the lack of available
statistics on the number of street children. The Committee is deeply
concerned about the extent of the sex trade involving children and the
inability of the State party to address these issues. [27] The Committee urges
the State party to indicate, in its next periodic report, the problem of the
measures it has undertaken to address the problem of street children and, in
particular, the problem of their sexual exploitation. 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 15 August
2011] [78] The sale,
trafficking and use of children in prostitution and pornography are
punishable under the Statutory Law for the Protection of Children and
Adolescents. Those who promote, benefit from, or assist in the
exploitation of children are criminally liable and may receive prison
sentences of 2 to 8 years. Child victims do not incur criminal liability. Concluding
observations of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination UN Committee on the
Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Sixty-seventh session, 2-19 August 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/country/venezuela2005.html [accessed 15 August
2011] [19] The Committee
notes with concern ……. More particularly, in the centers of illegal gold
prospecting, there is evidence that indigenous children and adolescents are
subjected to labor exploitation and the worst forms of child labor, including
servitude and slavery, child prostitution, trafficking and sale. Worst Forms of
Child Labour Report 2005 - Venezuela Global March Against
Child Labour, 2005 beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/venezuela.html [accessed 13
September 2012] CHILD PROSTITUTION
AND PORNOGRAPHY - NATIONAL STATISTICS - 40,000 Venezuelan children aged between 8
and 17 years are affected by prostitution, 22% of these are male.
("Venezuela losing war against sexual exploitation of children",
ECPAT Bulletin, October 1996). Written
statement submitted by Human Rights Advocates - a non-governmental
organization in special consultative status UN Economic and
Social Council Commission on Human Rights, Fifty-fourth session, 5 March 1998 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/fd0ee19efe8acf7080256683004f60ee?Opendocument [accessed 15 August
2011] [3] Thousands of
Ecuadorian children are smuggled through ***
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/2005/61745.htm [accessed 11
February 2020] SECTION
6 WORKER RIGHTS
– [d] The law protects children from exploitation in the workplace. The
Ministry of Labor and the National Institute for Minors enforced child labor
policies effectively in the formal sector of the economy but less so in the
informal sector. The Foundation for Training in the Investigation of Human
Resources estimated in 2004 that there were 1.6 million children working in
various sectors of the labor market, including 206 thousand involved in prostitution, panhandling, or drug
trafficking. All
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