Topic: Trafficking
AUSTRALIANS FEED CAMBODIAN CHILD SEX TRADE
August 12, 2002 ·
According to ECPAT Australia, hundreds of Australian men are flocking to Cambodia to have sex with girls and boys sold in brothels. In Cambodia, brothels openly thrive and sex with a girl aged 10 to 13 costs $30. Cambodian women’s affairs minister Mu Sochua told that corruption in the legal system and government in difference [...]
Read More...Kids In Perilous Work
August 12, 2002 ·
Many of 300,000 employed in cocoa production not paid The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Labour Department released key findings that indicate that some 284,000 child labourers work in hazardous conditions on cocoa farms in West Africa, 200,000 of whom work in Cote d’Ivoire and most of whom work alongside their families. [...]
Read More...AFRUCA Concerned over the Trafficking of African Children to the UK
August 1, 2002 ·
Anecdotal evidence suggests that increasingly African children are being brought into the UK as sources of cheap labour to work in the home and look after children, the Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (AFRUCA) shared. Children are brought in either by individuals or syndicates using false travel documents. They work long hours, are badly remunerated [...]
Read More...CHILD PROSTITUTION ‘GROWING PROBLEM’
April 20, 2002 ·
Wellington — New Zealand has a growing problem with child prostitution, trafficking, and pornography, according to a Justice Ministry report. This followed reports last year that girls as young as 11 were selling sex on Auckland streets, and a warning by a family law barrister in January that child pornography was reaching alarming levels. The [...]
Read More...REGION TO ESTABLISH CHILD TRAFFICKING LEGISLATION IN 2004
April 14, 2002 ·
Regional governments and partner organisations in West Africa agreed to ratify a convention against child trafficking in 2004. The agreement was reached after a three-day meeting on cross-border trafficking in Gabon’s capital, Libreville. Participants discussed a blueprint of the proposed regional agreement that highlighted prevention, identification, repatriation and reintegration of child victims into home countries [...]
Read More...SEX TRAFFICKING OCCURS VIA INFORMAL NETWORKS, ILO, UNDP SAY
April 14, 2002 ·
Sex trafficking of children in Thailand is largely an industry run by small, informal networks, according to a new report from the ILO in co-ordination with the UN Development Program. It is mainly informal networks that are responsible for trafficking girls out of their villages, and sometimes girls are driven by boredom with village life [...]
Read More...SOUTH AFRICA EMERGES AS KEY PLAYER IN CHILD TRAFFICKING
April 14, 2002 ·
South Africa is emerging as a key player in the trafficking of children for sexual exploitation, a parliamentary report has found. It found not only the gangs, brothel owners, syndicates and agents were involved but parents as well. At the Parliamentary Hearings on the Sexual Abuse of Children, it emerged that South Africa did not [...]
Read More...TRAFFICKING, RISKY JOBS COMMON, PHILIPPINE AGENCY SAYS
April 14, 2002 ·
South Africa is emerging as a key player in the trafficking of children for sexual exploitation, a parliamentary report has found. It found not only the gangs, brothel owners, syndicates and agents were involved but parents as well. At the Parliamentary Hearings on the Sexual Abuse of Children, it emerged that South Africa did not [...]
Read More...Child Sex Trade is Still Growing
April 6, 2002 ·
THE number of children being smuggled into Britain as sex slaves is growing.
The UK is among the eight leading ‘receiver’ nations for the youngsters from Eastern Europe and Africa, according to two new reports.
They estimate there are up to 10,000 children unaccompanied in Britain.
Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway and the Netherlands were also singled out.
Read More...Misery of children enslaved by the gun
July 10, 2001 ·
Sarah Ayero had never seen a gun before one was put to her head. Three days later, she was learning to dismantle an AK-47 and to kill people at close range. She was 12 years old. The untold quantities of small arms swilling around northern Uganda and its borders make Sarah and thousands of children like her a hugely valuable commodity.
Read More...UN Human Trafficking protocol endorsed
January 1, 2001 ·
by Sutthida Malikaew After long negotiations the United up with trafficking in persons, which was endorsed by UN member states in December 2000. However, there is still a lot of hard work left to do for NGOS. Negotiations were concluded on the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, [...]
Read More...South African Child Sex Industry Growing Rapidly
December 7, 2000 ·
Cape Town, South Africa – Child sex was a lucrative market in Gauteng and the Western Cape, with children as young as four-years-old being sold into the international racket, Molo Songololo, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) said. The research report was undertaken by the Cape Town-based NGO dealing with children’s issues, and is endorsed by the [...]
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