SEX TRAFFICKING IN THE AMERICAS

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Useful links	Table of Contents SEX TRAFFICKING IN THE AMERICAS SEX TRAFFICKING IN THE AMERICAS TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface The selection of countries from the Caribbean and Central America... Acknowledgments CODA: A SURVIVOR'S When they took me, there were about thirty minimum... TRAFFICKING IN CENTRAL AMERICA Country Overviews TRAFFICKING: A REGIONAL The information collected over the course... The project was designed to assess the prevalence... The study in the expanded Central American region... Recent actions at the international level... Children With this increased responsibility, women are seeking jobs... Women and girls in the region continue to be impacted... Migration from Honduras flows to Belize... Much of the regional and international migration is illegal... SEX TRAFFICKING IN THE REGION For children, issues related to sexual abuse... Trafficking and globalization Forms of Trafficking: Entering the Cycle Participants in Trafficking Activity Immigration and police officials with whom researchers... Trafficking Routes The relative economic well being of Costa Rica... Conditions and Consequences Threats and Use of Force RESPONSE MECHANISMS: POLICY AND LEGISLATION Several states are party to the Optional Protocol... Policy Unfortunately, the existence of these plans has not necessarily translated into action... Criminal Legislation Defining Acts Penalties As discussed briefly above, a survey of the trafficking laws... A handful of other differences in the scope of these provisions prohibiting... Treatment of Trafficked Persons under Domestic Legal Regimes... Enforcement of procuring and pandering crimes is extremely poor The destination countries of Belize and Panama presented the most visible... Information Needs Enforcement Challenges Changes in administration often hinder continuity in policies and services CONCLUSIONS RECOMMENDATIONS Regional Coordination Create a Comprehensive Information System Training Officials SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IN BRAZIL CECRIA TRAFFICKING: DEFINING THE PROBLEM There are a number of problems with this definition Admittedly, it is difficult to discern when this type... Socio-Economic Factors These economic conditions have created a complex migratory flow Child labor is also a serious concern... Personal Factors: Women, Children and Adolescents What can be said is that, according to data obtained... Traffickers/Demand/Trafficking Networks The connection of these Brazilian and foreign recruiters... Fashion market network: modeling agencies (photography, videos, and movies) The Taxi Connection The Brazilian recruiters, most of them male... Second, studying trafficking In studying these routes and characteristics... Among the destination... Complementing these trafficking provisions... In evaluating the existing law on trafficking... For example, this research has identified... CONCLUSIONS Recommendations Private Enforcement A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE ON TRAFFICKING Unfortunately, much of the energy channeled into combating... Whether as a result of desperate economic conditions... In December 2000, the United Nations... Firstly, one of the activities of the Inter-American Commission... These types of proceedings fulfill different roles... In addition, I would like to call your attention... I would like to say that another possibility... There is an important quality to the legal strategy... In many places, younger and younger children... Articles 34 and 35 of the CRC call on all States Parties... Thus, it could be problematic to limit the scope... QUESTIONNAIRE Are any indirect statistics available? What portion of the national or local budget... Legal Aspects International Protection CONSULTED INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS COSTA RICA DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EL SALVADOR GUATEMALA HONDURAS NICARAGUA PANAMA REGIONAL MECHANISMS Protection Awareness UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Special Special Note on the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime Dominican Republic Brazil Draft Law 1996 PROCURING/PANDERING Dominican Republic II MIGRANT SMUGGLING Guatemala INDEX OF UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS ON THE TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN Strengthening international cooperation in preventing... Trafficking of women and girls... Report of the Special Rapporteur... Report of the Special Repporteur on systematic rape... E/CN.4/1996/100 A/RES/50/167 E/CN.4/1993/58/ Add.1 Committee on the Rights of the child... HRC Concluding Observations... CCPR/C/79/Add.63 CCPR/C/79/Add.18 ECPAT International Organization for Migration (IOM) World Bank C. Costa Rica D. Dominican Republic E. El Salvador F. Guatemala G. Honduras back to top
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