May, 1999
Photos Help in Paedophile's Conviction
May 29, 1999 ·
PERTH – A 45-year-old boiler-maker became the first Australian to be jailed for sexually abusing children overseas after being convicted on the basis of photographs brought back from a holiday in Cambodia.
Read More...Taiwan: Child-sex Offenders to Feel Force of Law
May 21, 1999 · , The Asian Times
TAIPEI – Taiwanese parliament has passed a new law to convict child sex tourists. The law provides for prison terms of between three and 10 years for anyone having sex with girls aged under 14. Those who have sex with girls aged between 14-16 could be jailed for up to seven years. Names and photographs of offenders will also be made public in government bulletins.
Read More...Japan Tightens the Ban on Under-Age Sex
May 19, 1999 · , New York Times
TOKYO- The Japanese Parliament enacted a law in May aimed at banning child prostitution and child pornography. The law, which is to go into effect later this year, punishes those found guilty of paying for sex with children 17 and younger, and bans the sale, distribution, production, possession, import and export of child pornography.
Read More...ILO adopts Convention banning worst forms of child labour
May 5, 1999 ·
Geneva- International Labour Organisation (ILO) member States on June 17, 99 took a decisive step towards liberating scores of millions of children from slavery and debt bondage, prostitution and pornography, dangerous work and forcible recruitment for armed conflict.
Read More...100 Kids Abused Daily
May 2, 1999 · By ECPAT Newsletter, BBCWorld
Published in the ECPAT Newsletter May 1999 Sri Lanka: The first study prepared by Protecting Children and Environment Everywhere-PEACE (ECPAT-Sri Lanka) on the scale of child sexual abuse in Sri Lanka has concluded that 100 young people are sexually exploited or abused every day on the island. The study on sexually abused children concludes that […]
Read More...PREDA NEWSLETTER May 1999
May 2, 1999 ·
Childhood for Children, the therapeutic family for sexually abused children One hundred and twenty children joined the PREDA summer camp held at a nearby beach resort. It was a holiday and an educational experience with seminars, discussions, games, sports and activities to build community spirit and self-esteem. PREDA children, youth groups from the Diocese and […]
Read More...Swiss Paedophile Sentenced to Jail
May 1, 1999 ·
The Criminal Court of Basle sentenced a 36 year old Swiss citizen to six years in jail on 9th June 1999. PM was convicted of having sexually abused at least 13 children in the Philippines between 1989 and 1996.
Read More...Children as Sex Workers in India
May 1, 1999 ·
New Delhi: A study on “Child prostitution in India” by the Centre Concern for Child Labour (CCL), a non-governmental Organisation says thirty percent of sex workers are children, numbering between 270, 000 and 400,000.
Read More...Sexual Violence and Exploitation of Children in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Case of Jamaica
May 1, 1999 ·
The report was commissioned by the Inter-American Children’s Institute (IACI). It is part of a wider research project at IACI on sexual exploitation of children which has been undertaken in ten countries in Latin America and the Caribbean Region to explore the responses of governments and non-governmental organisations and to generate recommendations for effective handling of the issues.
Read More...Facts and Figures
May 1, 1999 · , World Tourism Organisation
Of 3.5 million websites, 23,000 have already been detected as advocating sex with children. Some 17 million children have access to the Internet at home (Parry Aftab, chief of the group Innocence in Danger’s U.S National Action Committee, CNN, June 15, 99)
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