Topic: Child Trafficking
Briefing Highlights Needs Of Child Trafficking Victims
November 3, 2002 ·
ECPAT-USA recently held a very successful briefing in support of the launch of our new report, International Trafficking of Children to New York City for Sexual Purposes. Presentations by representatives from UNICEF, the FBI, the Garbriella Network and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops were followed by a discussion about the unmet needs of trafficked […]
Read More...ITALY GATEWAY TO EUROPE FOR CHILD SEX SLAVES
August 12, 2002 ·
Rome — Italy is a main gateway into Europe for children sold into sex slavery, lured from poverty into a trade worth US $7 billion a year world-wide, delegates at a conference on child trafficking were told. Each year some 6,000 children aged between 12 and 16 are victims of child trafficking, according to a […]
Read More...PHILIPPINES: Bill on Domestic Child Workers
August 12, 2002 ·
Visayan Forum Foundation (VF) an organisation that works with child domestic workers is close to a breakthrough on a landmark bill. This bill could make the difference to hundreds of thousands of exploited child and adult domestic workers throughout the Philippines. Child domestic workers in particular toil far from home at the expense of their […]
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...Bars are Front for Child Sex
June 6, 2001 ·
An Irish Columban missionary, who has bee nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to combat child prostitution in the Philippines, claim Irish bars could be involved in the sex tourism industry. Fr. Shay Cullen said most Filipino bars wer frequented by people offering the services of wome prostitutes and some used this […]
Read More...Child Sex Tours
June 2, 2001 ·
John Kosky (now known as Jonathon Kaye) has been arrested in Australia and charged with organising child sex tours to Asia. Kaye’s arrest marks the eleventh arrest under Australia’s 1994 Child Sex Tourism law. (Source: ECPAT Australia Newsletter No. 61)
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