COMMITTEE: Health
QUESTION OF: The eradication of child prostitution
SUBMITTED BY: Croatia, Jordan
CO-SUBMITTED BY:
THE HEALTH AND YOUTH COMMITTEE
Noting with deep regret that most child prostitutes are forced into prostitution by their parents or even become prostitutes voluntarily to get extra money for what they would consider a “luxurious” lifestyle while still at school.
Recognising that although it may be easy to place blame on criminal syndicates, to reduce exploiters to pimps and perverts, to disparage the children themselves as promiscuous or sexually irresponsible, no social sector can escape responsibility for the sexual exploitation of children.
Also recognising that although we should aim to tackle pimps and crime syndicates as a direct priority we have to understand that problems such as this lay at the grass roots of society and can only be solved by an upheaval of our attitudes towards children and their place in society.