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Child
Prostitution
The Commercial
Sexual Exploitation of Children
Child Prostitution encompasses the exchange of sexual
services for remuneration or for other forms of consideration, including
food, housing, drugs, or other commodities or intangibles such as
approval or care. It is an age old
and global problem that has existed for centuries.
"It has rightly been called the ultimate evil. It
denies children their fundamental rights. It has devastating
psychological and physical consequences for them. It is a perversion of
the natural order - adults should be there to protect and nurture children,
not take advantage of their emotionally and physically vulnerable
state." - Keynote
address, Stockholm Congress 1996 by Peter Piot,
Executive Director, UNAIDS
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