Topic: Child Prostitution
PREDA NEWSLETTER August 1999
August 2, 1999 ·
Summer Camps and Sports Fest The big event for all the youth and children in the PREDA recovery and development programs was the summer camp. It was held at a beach with good facilities, beautiful weather and plenty of sports, games and group educational sessions. One hundred participants attended the three-day experience. One answer to […]
Read More...Hundreds of Guatemalan Girls Prostituted, Says Report
August 1, 1999 ·
The study done by the Human Rights Ombudsman’s Office (PDH) in Guatemala reflects the alarming situation of hundreds of girls who are forced to prostitute themselves in nightclubs, said the head of the PDH’s Childrens Defense Office, Marilys de Estrada.
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...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...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...PREDA NEWSLETTER September 1998
September 2, 1998 ·
Dear Friends, The Global March against child labor was one of the most effective educational exercises to raise the awareness of child exploitation in the work force. I joined marches in the Philippines where it began, with as many as 15,000 children, the PREDA Fair Trade staff and the social workers caring for children marched […]
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