Topic: Child Prostitution
Fighting The Child Sex Trade
May 8, 2000 ·
OLONGAPO, PHILIPPINES – Pia Agustin Corvera became a prostitute at the age of 9. An aunt who raised her in a Manila slum rented her to foreign men with Pia receiving 120 pesos–$3–for each encounter. After three years, according to a social worker’s report, she was sold to a visiting German pedophile. Today, the morose 16-year-old with a ravaged psyche and an uneasy smile has found refuge here in a therapeutic community for child victims of sexual abuse run by a 57-year-old Irish priest, the Rev. Shay Cullen.
Read More...Mayor in trouble for Saying Kids Enjoy
April 17, 2000 ·
DUMAGUETE CITY-He probably just wanted to earn “pogi points” before media, but Mayor Edsel Enardecido of Ayungon town in Negros Oriental Saturday found out too late that he had instead put his foot in his mouth.
Read More...Anti-pedophile video aired
April 12, 2000 ·
GENEVA – Swissair will show an anti-child-sex video on certain routes, the company announced last week.
Read More...Vatican Calls For Action Against Prostitution
April 12, 2000 ·
VATICAN CITY, APR 12 (ZENIT.org).- The Vatican called on the international community to intervene against prostitution and other exploitation of women, children, and illegal finmigrants.
Read More...Stopping sex-slave trade in the global economy
April 2, 2000 ·
Official U.S. estimates are that 2 million people, including 500,000 children, are being forced into prostitution.
A silent but horrific practice degrading women and children is, proliferating around the world. Known as sexual trafficking, it involves a systematic effort to kidnap females, many of whom are preteens, into forced prostitution.
Read More...Young Girls Sold for Sex, Flown to US
March 4, 2000 ·
Filipino girls – unless accompanied by their parents – will not be allowed to leave the country following reports that many of them are being sold to Amercian men through tour packages.
Read More...Shift in Sex Tourism
March 4, 2000 ·
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — The sexual exploitation of girls and boys, largely by men from the United States, has reached alarming proportions in Central America, according to children’s rights advocates who say the region is now a priority in their struggle against child prostitution and pornography.
Read More...Lawmen to go After 'Clients' of Child Sex
January 20, 2000 ·
DAVAO CITY — Instead of cracking down on prostituted minors and street girls engaging in, free sex, authorities here will be running after the “clients” of these children.
Read More...Coersion the Key Element Behind Trafficking
September 1, 1999 ·
Internationally, there is no consensus on the term “trafficking”. In 1994, the United Nations General Assembly came near to a comprehensive definition in its stipulation that “trafficking” is the “illicit and clandestine movement of persons across national and international borders, largely from developing countries and some countries with economies in transition, with the end goal of forcing women and girl children into sexually or economically oppressive and exploitative situations for the profit of recruiters, traffickers, crime syndicates, as well as other illegal activities related to trafficking, such as forced domestic labour, false marriages, clandestine employment and false adoption.”
Read More...Virgin Girl Brides Sought for Virility and Good Fortune
September 1, 1999 ·
In regard to Vietnam, the situation of trafficking of women and children within and from the country relates to three areas. First, there is trafficking from the northern part of Vietnam to China for marriage andother reasons. Second, there is trafficking from the southern part to Cambodia and subsequently to Thailand mainly for sexual purposes.
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