Topic: Child Abuse Crimes
Ensuring Global Justice For Children Beyond Borders
November 2, 2002 ·
In August 1996 Canadian government delegates and representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGO) were invited to participate in the first World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in Stockholm, Sweden. Canadian participants went into the conference with the belief that it was Canadian offenders committing acts against foreign children who should be of concern. What […]
Read More...Raising Awareness About Sex Tourism In Mexico
November 1, 2002 ·
An estimated 16,000 child prostitutes are found in Mexican tourist destinations and border cities. In response, in September, a vigil was held on the Mexico-U.S. border in Nogales, Arizona, organized by Arizonans for the Protection of Children, a member group of the U.S. Campaign Against the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. ECPAT-USA co-sponsored the event […]
Read More...Child Sex Tourism Campaigns: The need for dialogue on indicators and evaluation strategies
October 2, 2002 ·
ECPAT should congratulate itself. No other human rights or environmental campaign has influenced the international tourism industry in the way that the campaign against child sex tourism has done. ECPAT groups have been at the forefront of campaigning and some of the first leaflets and posters ever produced 10 years ago were by PEACE in […]
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...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...Us Issues Report On Child Labour
August 12, 2002 ·
The Labour Department released the first annual report on the worst forms of child labour in 143 trade beneficiary countries and territories as required under the Trade and Development Act of 2000. Under this act, trade beneficiary countries and territories are required to implement their international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labour. […]
Read More...Philippines Time-Bound Program Agreement Signed
August 12, 2002 ·
US Deputy Under Secretary for International Labour Affairs Thomas B. Moorhead, Philippines Secretary of Labour Patricia Santo Tomas and Philippines Secretary of Education Raul Roco signed a collaborative agreement on a Timebound Program to eliminate the worst forms of child labour in the Philippines. The agreement commits both countries to work together on a number […]
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...Prawn Units Stinks of Child Labour
August 4, 2002 ·
Kolkata, India — Cases of child labour exploitation have been reported from the coastal districts of West Bengal, Maharashtra and Orissa, where the children are being engaged in the prawn cultivation, processing and packaging industry. The Centre for Communication and Development (CCD), an NGO based near the city, has caught on video instances of child […]
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