And sex tourism makes it harder to stop." "They have an entire worldwide network of people looking for children through human trafficking. "In Pattaya, if there were fewer foreign people coming in to buy sex, then the problem would be easier to manage," Palissorn Noja, who runs Pattaya's Anti-Human Trafficking and Child Abuse Centre, told the Huffington Post. Sexual exploitation of children in Thailand, as in many other countries, is tremendously influenced by tourism. Available figures estimate that currently some 30,000 to 40,000 children, not including foreign children, are exploited as prostitutes. "According to Unicef and ILO there are 40,000 child prostitutes in Sri Lanka and 6.4% of the country's child population gets pregnant," said United National Party MP Rosy Senanayake.Īlthough girls are sexually exploited both in the sex industry and by sex tourists, many NGOs believe that it is boys who face greater abuse by foreign sex offenders, NGO Ecpact (Ending Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking) said.Ĭhild prostitution in Thailand involved 800,000 children under the age of sixteen in 2004.Īccording to Ecpat, due to the hidden nature of child sexual abuse reliable figures are hard to compile and cases difficult to document. The number of crimes against children in Sri Lanka increased by 64% in 2012, compared to the previous year, a Unicef report said. Here is a list of the five countries with the highest rates of child prostitution.
Child prostitution has been defined by the UN as "the act of engaging or offering the services of a child to perform sexual acts for money or other consideration with that person or any other person".īy 1990, international awareness of the commercial sexual exploitation and the sale of children had grown to such a level that the United Nations Commission on Human Rights decided to appoint a Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography.
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