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...occurred, because all three men were previously convicted of sex offenses in the U.S. and listed in the domestic sex-offender registry. "Sex offenders still think they can come to East Asia and commit new crimes with impunity," says Giorgio Berardi, program officer for combating child-sex tourism at ECPAT International, an organization working to eliminate child pornography, prostitution and trafficking. "We need far better collaboration between countries to prevent sexual exploitation of children." (Read about Iraq's unspeakable crime: mothers pimping daughters...
Commercial sexual exploitation of children is booming, and governments are not doing enough to protect young people, according to a global report released by ECPAT International in August 2009. "The recent economic downturn is set to drive more vulnerable children and young people to be exploited by the global sex trade," says Carmen Madrinan, executive director of ECPAT International. "The indifference that sustains the criminality, greed and perverse demands of adults for sex with children and young people needs...
...children from a wide range of ethnic and racial groups. The victims are both foreign nationals and U.S. citizens, and about half of the cases involve prostitution. Estimates from government documents suggest that 50,000 people are trafficked into the U.S. every year for forced labor. The organization ECPAT-USA (End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, and Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes) has calculated that 300,000 American children are “at risk” of being forced into the sex trade. Incidents of child sexual exploitation, including child pornography, child prostitution, online enticement of children, and child...
With reference to the article "Tourists Who Prey on Kids" [CRIME, Feb. 15], ECPAT International, a nongovernment group committed to ending commercial sexual exploitation of children, would like to explain why extraterritorial laws are essential for protecting the rights of children. Under the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child, children are guaranteed the right to physical and moral integrity. In 1996, 122 governments, including the U.S., committed themselves to eradicate sexual abuse of children. We sincerely hope that the American government and citizens will continue to implement the 1994 law, which allows for prosecution of Americans who sexually...
...would make patrons of foreign child prostitutes violators of German law, as is already the case in France and the Scandinavian countries. "Sexual abuse of children is a crime, worldwide, and will be prosecuted by criminal law," warned German Bundestag President Rita Sussmuth in an address opening a May ECPAT conference in Stuttgart...