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might be poverty, rejection, drug dependence, coercion, violence, addiction,
hunger, neglect, etc. On the other hand,
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for Teachers attached to this website. HELP for Victims International Organization for
Migration ***
FEATURED ARTICLE *** 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 *** ECPAT Country
Overview - Report on the scale, scope and context of the sexual exploitation
of children
[PDF] Adaiana Souza Lima, ECPAT
International, 2018 www.ecpat.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/ECPAT-Country-Overview-Vietnam-2018.pdf [accessed 10
September 2020] Desk review of
existing information on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in Vietnam.
The overview gathers existing publicly available information on 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, child early and forced
marriage (CEFM) and identifies gaps, research needs, and recommendations. 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/vietnam/ [accessed 10 September
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law criminalizes all acts of sale or deprivation
of liberty of children as well as all acts related to the exploitation of
children in prostitution and forced child labor for children under 16. The
exploitation of children in prostitution is not fully criminalized for 16-
and 17-year-old children. Sentences for those convicted range from three
years’ to life imprisonment, and fines range from five million to 50 million
VND ($220 to $2,200). The law specifies prison sentences for conviction of
acts related to the exploitation of children in prostitution, including
harboring prostitution (12 to 20 years), brokering prostitution (seven to 15
years), and buying sex with minors (three to 15 years). The production,
distribution, dissemination, or sale of child pornography is illegal, and a
conviction carries a sentence of three to 10 years’ imprisonment. The country
is a destination for child sex tourism. The law prohibits
all acts of cruel treatment, humiliation, abduction, sale, and coercion of
children into any activities harmful to their healthy development and
provides for the protection and care of disadvantaged children. The minimum age of
consensual sex is 18. Conviction for statutory rape may result in life
imprisonment or capital punishment. Penalties for sex with minors between the
ages of 16 and 18, depending upon the circumstances, vary from five to 10
years in prison. The penalty for rape of a child between the ages of 13 and
16 is seven to 15 years’ imprisonment. If the victim becomes pregnant, the
rape is incestuous, or the offender is in a guardianship position to the
victim, the penalty increases to 12 to 20 years’ imprisonment. The law
considers all cases of sexual intercourse with children younger than 13 to be
child rape, with sentences ranging from 12 years’ imprisonment to death. The
government enforced the law, and convicted rapists received harsh sentences. 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. 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). ***
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/2005/61632.htm [accessed
11 February 2020] 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. All
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