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FEATURED ARTICLE *** A 15-Year-Old's Story of Prostitution - Poverty and cynicism in Harare, Zimbabwe keep young women from escaping Nelson G. Katsande,
OhmyNews, NELKA, 2006-August-15 english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=310922&rel_no=1 [accessed 18 August 2011] Tambudzai, age 15, grew up
on a farm in Mazowe, northeast of Following his
death, poverty was unavoidable. Tambudzai was
expelled from school for non-payment of fees, and none of her father's
relatives offered to help. Her dream of becoming a nurse had been shattered.
Left to fend for herself, she was lured into the venality of city life and
found herself in ***
ARCHIVES *** The Department of Labor’s 2004 Findings on
the Worst Forms of Child Labor www.dol.gov/ilab/media/reports/iclp/tda2004/zimbabwe.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] INCIDENCE
AND NATURE OF CHILD LABOR - Over the past few years, the number of children
living on the streets has continued to rise and there are reports of children
involved in commercial sexual exploitation. CHILD
LABOR LAWS AND ENFORCEMENT - The Penal Code prohibits children from visiting or residing
in a brothel, and prohibits anyone from causing the seduction, abduction, or
prostitution or children. Under the Sexual Offenses Act of 2001, a person
convicted of prostituting a child under the age of 12 years is subject to a
fine of up to ZWD 35,000 (USD 6.00) or imprisonment of up to 7 years. Human Rights
Reports » 2005 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61600.htm [accessed 17 January 2011] CHILDREN
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There were an estimated 1.3 million HIV/AIDS orphans by year's end, and the
number was increasing. The number of AIDs orphans (including children who
lost one as well as both parents) was about 10 percent of the country's
population. Many grandparents were left to care for the young, and, in some
cases, children or adolescents headed families and were forced to work to
survive. AIDS orphans and foster children were at high risk for child abuse.
Some children were forced to turn to prostitution as a means of income.
According to local custom, other family members inherit before children,
leaving many children destitute. Many such children were unable to obtain
birth certificates, which then prevented them from obtaining social services. TRAFFICKING
IN PERSONS
- There were reports of child prostitution, trafficking in children, and
child labor. NGOs reported an increase in child prostitution since Operation
Restore Order. As with adults, reports suggested that those children in
desperate economic circumstances, especially those in families headed by
children, were most at risk. One local NGO reported that traffickers took
girls from rural areas to city brothels in cities under the false pretenses
of job or marriage promises. The NGO reported that rural girls were sometimes
trafficked to farms as agricultural labor or to urban areas as domestic
labor, where they were sometimes sexually abused. The Curse of Child Prostitution Vimbai Komani,
The Herald, 10 April 2009 allafrica.com/stories/200904100077.html [accessed 18 August 2011] "My heart
bleeds when I see young girls of primary school level engaging in prostitution.
More hotels in the country have become notorious in entertaining these young
girls that are seen loitering at their foyers and their premises as they
search for clients," says Trevor Mutunami from
Nyamapanda, a town bordering Child prostitution,
however, is not only about little girls as young boys are also increasingly
being targeted. The International
Organisation for Migration has identified this as a growing problem in Chiredzi where boys are leaving for A 15-Year-Old's Story of Prostitution - Poverty and cynicism in Nelson G. Katsande,
OhmyNews, NELKA, 2006-August-15 english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=310922&rel_no=1 [accessed 18 August 2011] Tambudzai, age 15, grew up
on a farm in Mazowe, northeast of Following his
death, poverty was unavoidable. Tambudzai was
expelled from school for non-payment of fees, and none of her father's
relatives offered to help. Her dream of becoming a nurse had been shattered.
Left to fend for herself, she was lured into the venality of city life and
found herself in 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 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 – CHILDREN: Those The Anti-AIDS Campaigners
Forget Isabella Matambanadzo,
Inter Press Service News Agency IPS, www.aegis.com/news/ips/1996/IP960601.html [accessed 18 August 2011] Generally, the boys
do odd jobs such as guarding parked cars, while the girls beg. But destitution transforms many children of
both sexes into easy prey for people who sexually exploit them in exchange
for a little money, warm clothes, a pair of old shoes or simply a hot meal.
The children's immaturity and powerlessness make them less likely than, for
example, commercial sex workers, to insist on condoms. This increases their
chances of being infected with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and HIV. Analysis of the Situation of Sexual
Exploitation of Children in the Eastern and Southern Draft Consultancy Report Prepared as a
component of the UNICEF – ESARO &
ANPPCAN Partnership Project on Sexual Exploitation and Children’s Rights,
October, 2001, www.unicef.org/events/yokohama/csec-east-southern-africa-draft.html#_Toc527979963 [accessed 18 August 2011] [4.1]
FACTORS PREDISPOSING CHILDREN TO COMMERCIAL SEXUAL EXPLOITATION –
INTRODUCTION
- [7] Demand for Sexual Services: The
phenomenon of sugar daddies and sugar mummies is common in the region in
countries such as Kenya, Swaziland, Lesotho, South Africa, and Mozambique and
is steadily rising in Zimbabwe. Children are wooed by gifts, presents,
money and other material rewards in return to sex. Sex tourism is growing due
to an influx of tourists in the region. Pimps, madams, middlemen and parents
or others facilitate child prostitution in many societies within the
region. Child prostitution occurs in brothels, massage parlors,
streets, bars and discotheques. Lower prices charged by young girls sometimes
fuel the demand for child prostitutes. The girl prostitutes are easily
controlled by bar owners and ‘madams’ and hence owners of brothels seek out
young girls since they can easily be exploited. All
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