[humantraffic-vn] Child Trafficking Gateway 135 - Children in Difficult Situations

Sat Sep 19 00:07:12 EST 2009

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Subject: 	19 Child Trafficking Gateway 135 - Children in Difficult
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Date: 	Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:28:08 +0200
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Dear friends and colleagues

We have again updated the digital library
*_http://www.childtrafficking.com_*  - supported by many activists
around the globe. All forms of trafficking are addressed, including
trafficking for labor purposes. The website focuses on children, and
includes the latest information on strategies for trafficking
prevention, as well as for the rehabilitation and reintegration of
victims of trafficking. The digital library
*_http://www.childtrafficking.com_*  focuses on the outcomes of
trafficking, such as the use of forced labor or slavery like practices,
no matter how people arrive in these conditions.

The update includes *eleven* new documents dealing with *_children in
difficult situations.  _*

Fafo Research Foundation (2009). *Protecting whom? Approaches to Sexual
Exploitation and Abuse in UN Peacekeeping Operations*. 80 p. This policy
report examines the institutional ramifications and manifold preliminary
impacts of the zero-tolerance policy toward sexual exploitation and
abuse (SEA) in two UN peacekeeping missions: the UN Stabilization
Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). It
identifies enforcement problems that undermine the effectiveness of the
zero-tolerance policy - problems that are unsurprising in an attempt to
impose a particular normative standard on a large, culturally and
socio-economically diverse peacekeeping mission population, in the
context of a host society afflicted by widespread poverty, joblessness,
and extremely distorted economies.
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/fafo_approaches_abuse_0309.pdf_

Hecht, M.E. (2008). *Private Sector Accountability in Combating the
Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children. *138 p.* *This report will
examine the different sectors of private industry, identifying the
individuals and groups involved and their efforts in eliminating CSEC
or, in some cases, perpetuating it. Although the obstacles or concerns
of each project will be reviewed, the central focus of the study will
remain on “best practices” and “lessons learned”; in particular, the use
of corporate social responsibility tools to reduce the incidence of
commercial sexual exploitation of children within the respective
industries will be explored. The emphasis on positive outcomes will
hopefully demonstrate that good work can indeed be accomplished through
an acknowledgement of the problem, coupled with a determination to make
a difference in the lives of children.
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/hecht_08_private_accountability_0309.pdf_

Internet Safety Technical Task Force. (2008). *Enhancing Child Safety
and Online Technologies.* 278 p. “Many youth in the United States have
fully integrated the Internet into their daily lives. For them, the
Internet is a positive and powerful space for socializing, learning, and
engaging in public life. Along with the positive aspects of Internet use
come risks to safety, including the dangers of sexual solicitation,
online harassment, and bullying, and exposure to problematic and illegal
content.”
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/isttf_08_enhancing_tech_0309.pdf_

United Nations Children's Fund Belgique (2008). *La protection des
mineurs etrangers non accompagnés victims de la traite et du traffic des
êtres humains*. 33 p. Belgique en tant que victime, les conditions
d’octroi de ce statut sont difficiles - voir impossibles - à réunir pour
la plupart des mineurs, avec comme conséquence qu’un nombre infiniment
petit de MENA victimes se voient octroyer le statut de victime,
préférant introduire d’autres procédures de séjour moins adaptées à leur
statut et qui dépendent davantage du pouvoir discrétionnaire des
autorités belges.
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/unicef_protection_foreign_minors_0309.pdf_

Fafo Institute for Applied Social Science (2005). *Identification of
street children. Characteristics of street children in Bamako and
Accra*. 96 p. “This report presents the results of a study of the street
children population in two West African cities: Bamako in Mali and Accra
in Ghana. The main aim of this study was to develop methodologies for
difficult to reach populations, i.e. populations that are not found
within household structures or schools, and to give the characteristics
of the street children population in Bamako and Accra.”
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/fafo_05_identificat_0109.pdf_

Human Rights Watch (2008). *Left to Survive. Systematic Failure to
Protect Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Greece.* 117 p. Some 1,000
unaccompanied migrant children who have entered Greece in 2008 without
parents or caregivers struggle to survive without any state assistance.
Although a member of the European Union, Greece flouts its most basic
obligations when it comes to meeting the rights of these children, many
of whom come from war-torn countries, including Afghanistan, Somalia,
and Iraq, with special protection needs. This report documents the
plight of the majority of unaccompanied children who have entered Greece
and end up in a daily fight for survival.
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/hrw_08_greece_0309.pdf_

Refugees International. (2008). *Futures Denied: Statelessness Among
Infants, Children, and Youth.* 32 p. “Statelessness, or the lack of
effective nationality, impacts the daily lives of some 11-12 million
people around the world. Perhaps those who suffer most are stateless
infants, children and youth. Though born and raised in their parents’
country of habitual residence, they lack formal recognition of their
existence.” _http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/futures_denied_0309.pdf_

Human Rights Watch (2008). *The Last Holdouts. Ending the Juvenile Death
Penalty in Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen.* 23 p. The
prohibition on the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile
offenders—persons under age 18 at the time of the offense—is well
established in international treaty and customary law. The overwhelming
majority of states comply with this standard: only five states are known
to have executed juvenile offenders since January 2005.
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/hrw_last_ho_0109.pdf_

Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (2008). *Tenth periodic
report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the
situation of human rights in the Sudan -* *Arbitrary arrest and
detention committed by national security, military and police. *51 p.
“Sudanese authorities routinely arrest and detain political dissidents
illegally and subject many to mistreatment and torture, the top United
Nations human rights official said on Friday. U.N. High Commissioner for
Human Rights Navi Pillay said women, children and relatives of criminal
suspects are also arbitrarily detained by Sudanese police, intelligence,
and military forces.”*
*_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/ohr_08_sudan_0109.pdf_
* *
United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (2008). *Afghanistan:* *Social
Work and Juvenile Justice 1. *6 p. Justice for Children in Afghanistan
Series. The role of Social Workers in Juvenile Justice.
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/unicef_juven_1_0109.pdf_

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). (2008). *Afghanistan:* *Social
Work and Juvenile Justice 2. *4 p. Double Victims: The treatment of
child abuse and exploitation in the justice system.
_http://www.childtrafficking.com/Docs/unicef_juven_2_0109.pdf_

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Regards

*Muna Basnyat                                                *
Regional Anti – Trafficking Adviser
Terre des hommes Foundation
Kathmandu, Nepal