Topic: Child Abuse Crimes
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)
Read More...Thailand: Memorandum Between NGOS, Police and Government on the Treatment of Trafficked Children
May 1, 1999 ·
June 30th 1999, in Bangkok, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed on behalf of the Office of the Prime Minister, the Department of Social Welfare, the National Police Forces, the Global Alliance against Trafficking in Women and Children and The National Council of Children and Youth.
Read More...The Lost Son: Trafficking, Children and Violence
May 1, 1999 ·
The film, The Lost Son, by Chris Menges was given its preview in Paris on April 20, 1999, It is the story of a private detective, Xavier Lombard played by Daniel Auteuil who is is hired by a rich family to find Leon, their son, a photographer and a drug addict. In the course of his investigation he uncovers a pedophile network and the horror of child prostitution.
Read More...Conviction Rate for Child Abusers Dismisal
February 1, 1999 ·
DAVAO CITY – Only few of those accused of child abuse and sex exploitation get convicted even as the reporting of these cases has improved the past years, children’s rights advocates here said.
Liza Degoria, head of the city government-funded Balay Dangupan. A center for abused and sexually-exploited children, said of the 175 cases of rape, incest and acts of lasciviousness that were filed in court from 1996 t last year, only 16 had convictions.
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