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FEATURED ARTICLE *** HIV/AIDS and Child Labor In Zambia: A Rapid Assessment on
the case of the Lusaka, Copperbelt and Eastern Provinces International Labour Organization (ILO) / International
Labour Organization (ILO) , 2003 www.eldis.org/assets/Docs/13864.html [accessed 19 September 2011] PREVALENCE OF COMMERCIAL SEXUAL
EXPLOITATION (CSE)
among children aged 14 to 16 years was common. Half of the 34 in-depth interviews
were conducted with CSE victims. Girls claimed they slept with as many as 4
men per night and their earnings ranged between US$0.63 and US$2.10 per act.
Condoms were rarely used. Boys clients tended to be rich widows who paid in
dollars Compere: Tony Jones & Reporter: Sally
Sara, Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC LATELINE, 20/11/2002 www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s731441.htm [accessed 17 August 2011] In southern ***
ARCHIVES *** ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the status of action
against commercial exploitation of children - ZAMBIA [PDF] ECPAT International, 2007 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/AF/Global_Monitoring_Report-ZAMBIA.pdf [accessed 18 August 2011] Several studies describe more
girls in prostitution than boys, the majority of
prostituted girls are aged between 14 and 18. According to the International
Labour Organization (ILO), “prostitution has become rife in all major towns
and peri-urban areas”. In some cases, children
trade sex for beer or second-hand clothing, while boys may be paid in dollars
to sleep with rich widows in hotels. A number of reports indicating that boys
are also being exploited in commercial sex demand further investigation and
research. In a research study recently conducted by Children in Need (CHIN) –
the ECPAT group in Zambia – and ECPAT International, a 15-year-old male
respondent reported that boys on the street were being picked up by local men
and given money for sex. In addition to being sexually
exploited in bars and guest houses, children are forced into sexual acts with
teachers and school authorities in exchange for better grades or for lenient
corporal punishment (although outlawed, corporal punishment is still
practiced in most government schools).
Traditional beliefs and practices also contribute to child
prostitution. For instance, some perpetrators seek younger children based on
the belief that sex with virgins or a young child can cure them of HIV/AIDS.
Furthermore, sexual abuse of children by adult males is often justified or
condoned, and the girl and her parents are often blamed if she is raped or
prostituted. Prostituted girls are stigmatised, but
not the men who exploit them. Children are also exploited through early
marriages, whereby parents offer their daughters for marriage in return for a
bride price, or ‘lobola’, in order to reduce the
burden of an extra child to feed and educate. The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on the Worst Forms
of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/zambia.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Street children are especially vulnerable to commercial sexual
exploitation, and the problem of child prostitution is widespread in Human Rights Reports » 2005
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61599.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] CHILDREN - There are laws that criminalize
child prostitution; however, the law was not enforced effectively, and child
prostitution was widespread. The presence of an estimated 30 thousand street
children in Trafficking of children for sexual
exploitation occurred. During the year the government
continued implementation of a strategy to provide shelter and protection to
street children, including prostitutes. The Ministry of Labor reported that
the majority of the five thousand children removed from child labor during
the year were street children. Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of
the Child (CRC) UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, 6 June 2003 www1.umn.edu/humanrts/crc/zambia2003.html [accessed 9 March 2011] [64] The Committee is concerned about
the large and increasing number of child victims of commercial sexual
exploitation, including for prostitution and pornography, especially among
girls, child orphans and other disadvantaged children. Concern is also expressed at the
insufficient programs for the physical and psychological recovery and social
reintegration of child victims of such abuse and exploitation. AIDS, Pregnancy and Poverty Trap
Ever More African Girls Sharon LaFraniere, New York
Times, Patrice Lumumba [accessed 18 August 2011] But for the last 25 years, the
trends had been positive. African girls, like girls elsewhere, were marrying
later, and a growing percentage were in school. The AIDS epidemic now threatens to take
away those hard-won gains. Orphaned and impoverished by the deaths of
parents, girls here are being propelled into sex at shockingly early ages to
support themselves, their siblings and, all too often, their own children. In Zambia's capital, Lusaka,
impoverished relatives order some orphaned girls as young as 14 out on the
street at night, telling them they must earn their keep, a recent survey
found. 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 – ZAMBIA - Increases in CSEC in Zambia have been attributed to a number of
factors, including poverty caused by an economic crisis, HIV/AIDS, peer
pressure, a desire for material wealth, and early marriage leading to
divorce. The growing number of families headed by children, the result of
HIV/AIDS, has meant that older children are turning to prostitution in order
to gain income for their siblings’ needs. Reports indicate that some foreign
nationals in Report by Special Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and Social Council Commission on Human Rights,
Fifty-ninth session, 6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 18 August 2011] [80] In HIV/AIDS and Child Labor In Zambia: A Rapid Assessment on
the case of the Lusaka, Copperbelt and Eastern
Provinces International Labour Organization (ILO) / International
Labour Organization (ILO) , 2003 www.eldis.org/assets/Docs/13864.html [accessed 19 September 2011] PREVALENCE
OF COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION (CSE) among children aged 14 to 16 years was common. Half of
the 34 in-depth interviews were conducted with CSE victims. Girls claimed
they slept with as many as 4 men per night and their earnings ranged between
US$0.63 and US$2.10 per act. Condoms were rarely used. Boys clients tended to
be rich widows who paid in dollars Compere: Tony Jones & Reporter: Sally
Sara, Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC LATELINE, 20/11/2002 www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s731441.htm [accessed 17 August 2011] In southern Sex work rife among street children UN Integrated Regional Information Networks IRIN PlusNews,
www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?reportid=36024 [accessed 18 August 2011] Commercial sex work has become
increasingly common among children aged 14 to 16. When educated about the danger of HIV/AIDS,
they say that AIDS is something in the future and that their hunger is a more
real and pressing need. Japhet Banda, Times of allafrica.com/stories/200307140136.html [partially accessed 26 August 2011 - access restricted] When Tomaida Tembo received news of her impending trip to To make her travelling
easy, the distant cousin had sent enough money to cover her travelling expenses and a lot more to help her mother
settle down after her departure. That
was five years ago since the morning Tomaida left
the sanctuary of her mother on a journey that changed her life forever. Wondering on the cold streets of Massive child labour in afrol News, 25 October 2002 -- Sources:
ICFTU & afrol archives www.afrol.com/News2002/zam008_labour_report.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] Neither were children safe from
the perils of prostitution. The report states that "there are reports of
forced prostitution [in Zambia], particularly of children, of the trafficking
of women and children to neighbouring countries for
the purposes of prostitution, and of combatants from neighbouring
Angola kidnapping Zambians and taking them back to Angola to perform various
forms of forced labour." - htcp The Protection Project - The www.protectionproject.org/human_rights_reports/report_documents/zambia.doc [accessed 2009] FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE
TRAFFICKING INFRASTRUCTURE - HIV/AIDS, coupled with poverty, has contributed to the
proliferation of street children and child labor in All material used herein
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