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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.aspx?reportid=72906 [accessed 16 August 2011] 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 *** 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. 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.aspx?reportid=72906 [accessed 16 August 2011] 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. 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 – 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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