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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Poor Yemeni girls
face job risks www.yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1155&p=report&a=2 [Last access date
unavailable] CHILD PROSTITUTION
IN Another reason some
girls are forced into prostitution is the phenomenon of “tourism marriages”
and subsequent divorce. In Taiz and Ibb as well, the high tourism season yields many visitors
from wealthier Gulf countries who get married to a Yemeni girl for one, two
or three weeks during their vacation so that they can legally have sexual
relations. The visitors will divorce the girl at the end of the vacation,
leaving them to fend for themselves. The study showed that 39 percent of
these girl prostitutes in Street children at
increased risk of sexual abuse UN Integrated
Regional Information Networks IRIN, Sanaa, 25 June 2007 www.irinnews.org/report/72906/yemen-street-children-at-increased-risk-of-sexual-abuse [accessed 13 March
2015] INCREASED NUMBER OF
STREET CHILDREN
- "If they have been on the street for a long time, the chances of them being sexually abused is around 90
percent," Shugaa said. According to reports, boys as young as
eight have been lured into the cars of strangers for as little as US$1, while
others are sexually abused by older boys living rough on the street - a dire
reminder of the vicious circle of abuse found throughout the world involving
street children. Yet the boys,
generally brought into the center by police or the center's own outreach programme, rarely divulge the abuse they have
suffered. "I never did those
kinds of bad things, but I know others who have," one 13-year-old boy at
the center whispered, glancing away from the peering eyes of other boys.
"When you are hungry you do what you have to do," he said, adding
he knew of several occasions when a boy would be brought to a man's home for
a few days and routinely abused, before being let go. "Yes, there
are some bad boys doing bad things," said another child at the centre
who did not know his own age and who had been left on the streets by his
mother to fend for himself after the death of his father in 1995. ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Regional
Overview – Sexual Exploitation of Children Middle East and North Africa [PDF] Zina Khoury and Sirsa Qursha, ECPAT International, 2020 [accessed 10
September 2020] This Regional
Overview on the sexual exploitation of children (SEC) in the Middle East and
North Africa (MENA), consolidates the relevant
existing data to map the context, risk factors, region-specific issues,
responses and gaps in the fight against the issue. In addition to providing
external audiences with a summary and analysis of the SEC, this report will
also serve as an advocacy tool that highlights good practices by governments
and other actors, and identifies opportunities for improvements. Keywords:
child marriage, war and conflict, LQBTQI, SOGIE, gender norms, taboo 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/yemen/ [accessed 10 September
2020] SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN - The law does not define statutory rape and does not
impose an age limit for consensual sex. The law prohibits pornography,
including child pornography, although there was no information available on
whether the legal prohibitions were comprehensive. The law criminalizes the
prostitution of children. Amnesty International reported children as young as
eight were raped in the city of Taiz during the
year. It also reported four cases of sexual violence against children
reportedly by militiamen aligned with a political party. 2018 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor Office of Child
Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking, Bureau of International Labor
Affairs, US Dept of Labor, 2019 www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ILAB/child_labor_reports/tda2018/ChildLaborReportBook.pdf [accessed 10
September 2020] Note:: Also check out this country’s report in the more recent edition DOL
Worst Forms of Child Labor [page 1223] There is evidence of
chattel slavery, as children are owned, sold, and inherited as property
particularly in Al Hajjah, Al Hudaydah,
and Al Mahwit governorates. (2,26,42,43) Yemeni
children, mostly boys who migrate to Sana’a, Aden, and Saudi Arabia, are
engaged in forced labor for domestic work, begging, or work in small shops.
(2,26) Moreover, reports indicate that commercial
sexual exploitation of children has increased over the past several years.
Girls are subjected to human trafficking for commercial sexual exploitation
within Yemen in hotels and clubs located in Aden, Sana’a, Ta’iz,
and other cities. (2,26) Concluding
Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the
Rights of the Child, 3 June 2005 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/yemen2005.html [accessed 17 January
2011] [66] The Committee
is very concerned that regardless of the fact that child sexual abuse and sexual
exploitation of children are reported to be serious problems in the State
party, those issues have not been sufficiently addressed. The Committee is
particularly concerned at: (a) The absence of legislation clearly prohibiting
child sexual abuse and the lack of a clear definition of the term in the
State party as well as the lack of a legislation which clearly defines sexual
consent; (b) The absence of statistics and data on the issue of child sexual
abuse; and (c) Traditional attitudes regarding the subject (inter alia,
concepts like family honor) which implies a majority of abuse cases go
unreported. Five Years After
Stockholm [PDF] 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 – www.ecpat.net/eng/ecpat_inter/Country/ChildProstitution/Yemen.html [Last access date
unavailable] Available
information indicates that Which
professionals in government services have been trained to assist in the
recovery and reintegration of child victims?
[DOC] Presidency of
Council of Ministers, Higher Council for Childhood and Motherhood, and www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/2002_agenda_for_action_report_ecpat.doc [accessed 17 August
2011] [p.80 line 23] Whenever a CSEC
victim is taken to court in 5.1 Middle East -
State of ECPAT International,
Looking Back Thinking Forward, November 2000 -- The fourth report on the
implementation of the Agenda for Action adopted at the World Congress against
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children held in At one time this
article had been archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 17 August
2011] While
Commercial
sexual exploitation of children - Middle East/ This summary is
based on the situation analysis written by Dr Najat M’jid for the
Arab-African Forum against Commercial Sexual Exploitation, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/backgound8.html [accessed 17 August
2011] These countries
also have in common, however, a number of constraints that have hindered
preparation of national plans of action. In all the countries of the region,
there is cultural resistance to addressing the problem because the subject is
largely taboo. Often the issue is
dealt with more generally under headings such as ‘violence’ and
‘trauma’. This means that there has
been no regional consensus on defining CSEC in law; in some countries, for
example, it is looked upon as an indecent act, in others as rape, although in
all 20 countries there is some section of the penal code that can be invoked
against sexual abuse and exploitation. All
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