The eradication of child prostitution.

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COMMITTEE: Health

QUESTION OF: The eradication of child prostitution

SUBMITTED BY: Croatia, Jordan

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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.

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Welcoming the work done by Non-Governmental organisations and UN agencies such as the NGO coalition ECPAT, UNICEF and the World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) to raise public awareness and help with reintegration work in some of the world’s poorest countries.

Also Welcoming the efforts of UN agencies and NGOs which are actively involved in encouraging and contributing to the training of legal professionals, police enforcement agencies and others in the areas where the commercial sexual exploitation of children is involve, for example, in cross boarder operations.

Having considered the above points, Romania/Jordan believes that the ...

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