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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Desperation up close Richard Greenberg, NBC News
producer, 1/23/2004 www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4038263/ns/dateline_nbc/ [accessed 17 January 2011] “New girls! New
girls!” exclaimed It came down to
this: these five- to 10-year-old girls, instead of playing with dolls or
learning to read, were being raped so adults could make a living. As the
father of two daughters, I couldn’t fathom the kind of desperation that would
prompt a parent to send a child into this situation. – htcp Radio www.thinkcentre.org/article.cfm?ArticleID=2257 [accessed 15 August 2011] Nyung, which means
rabbit in Vietnamese, worked as a child prostitute since the age of 12. A
daughter of one of Child Prostitution Starting To
Appear In Reuters, patrick.guenin2.free.fr/cantho/vnnews/child.htm [accessed 15 August 2011] Christine Beddoe, tourism program director for international group
End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking (ECPAT) ***
ARCHIVES *** Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61632.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] CHILDREN - Widespread
poverty contributed to continued child prostitution,
particularly of girls but also of some boys, in major cities. Many prostitutes in Some children were
trafficked domestically, and others were trafficked to foreign destinations
for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Concluding Observations of the Committee on
the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of
the Child, 31 January 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/vietnam2003.html [accessed 17 January 2011] [49] The Committee
notes with concern that a significant proportion of sex workers are under the
age of 18. Furthermore, it is concerned that, although the State party
recognizes trafficking in children to be a significant problem, the number of
officially reported cases is very low. Wisdom Dzidedi Donkor, Public Agenda, allafrica.com/stories/200711051563.html [partially accessed 15 August 2011 - access
restricted] RESEARCH FINDINGS - Also in 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 – humantrafficking.org www.humantrafficking.org/action_plans/16 [accessed 15 August 2011] Trafficking
and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Save the Children - Our Work in www.savethechildren.net/vietnam/key_issues/ch_abuse/traffick.html [accessed 15 August 2011] At the moment, the
sexual abuse and exploitation of children continues to be a considerably
under-reported offence. One reason for that is the lack of experience dealing
with this issue. Though its Government has started to seriously look at the
issue and have an explicit or coherent policy to combat it, as yet, the
Government has not introduced any program to help victims prepare for their
return and reintegration. Viet Nam children in
prostitution in Hanoi, Hai Phong,
L. B. Duong, International Labour
Organization ILO, 2002 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 15 August 2011] This Rapid
Assessment provides some insight into the situation of young people involved
in prostitution in The Modern Scourge of Sex Slavery Dr. Martin Brass, Soldier of
Fortune Magazine, September 2004 www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SOF_0904_Slavery1,00.html [accessed 17 January 2011] [Photo Caption] Cambodian
policeman escorts 11-year-old Vietnamese girl from brothel in Toul Kork red-light district of
Street Kids Wear Scars Of Abuse At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 15 August 2011] Many children,
girls particularly, abandoned by their parents, or tricked into taking jobs
under false pretenses, end up abused, begging, and often forced into
prostitution. Sister's Love Reaches Out To Street
Children Of Catholic Leader, Brisbane, issue of 4 Apr, 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 15 August 2011] In www.humantrafficking.org/updates/38 [accessed 4 September 2012] The trafficking of
girls over the Vietnam-China border has been a problem since the two
countries normalized relations in 1989. In recent years evidence indicates
that the girls have been getting younger and more are being sold into
prostitution, rather than as wives as in the past. Desperation up close Richard Greenberg, NBC News
producer, 1/23/2004 www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4038263/ns/dateline_nbc/ [accessed 17 January 2011] “New girls! New
girls!” exclaimed It came down to
this: these five- to 10-year-old girls, instead of playing with dolls or
learning to read, were being raped so adults could make a living. As the
father of two daughters, I couldn’t fathom the kind of desperation that would
prompt a parent to send a child into this situation. – htcp Radio www.thinkcentre.org/article.cfm?ArticleID=2257 [accessed 15 August 2011] Nyung, which means
rabbit in Vietnamese, worked as a child prostitute since the age of 12. A
daughter of one of Worst Forms of Child Labour
Report 2005 - Vietnam Global March Against Child Labour, 2005 beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/vietnam.html [accessed 13 September 2012] CHILD PROSTITUTION AND PORNOGRAPHY -
NATIONAL STATISTICS
- A report presented to the International Young People's Participation
conference in Manila in May 2000 stated that "based on reports by the
Social Evil Prevention Department of the Ministry of Labour,
Invalids and Social Affairs, there were from 5000 to 7000 children involved
in commercial sexual exploitation in 1998." (ECPAT, CSEC
Database,www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/projects/monitoring/online_database/index.asp). Child Prostitution Starting To
Appear In Reuters, patrick.guenin2.free.fr/cantho/vnnews/child.htm [accessed 15 August 2011] Christine Beddoe, tourism program director for international group
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