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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 material used herein
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