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Child sexual exploitation
Child exploitation refers to the use of children for someone else’s advantage, gratification or profit often resulting in unjust, cruel and harmful treatment of the child. These activities are to the detriment of the child’s physical or mental health, education, moral or social-emotional development. It covers situations of manipulation, misuse, abuse, victimization, oppression or ill-treatment.
There are two main forms of child exploitation that are recognised:
Sexual exploitation: the abuse of a position of vulnerability, differential power, or trust for sexual purposes; this includes profiting monetarily, socially or politically from the exploitation of another as well as personal sexual gratification.
Examples: Child prostitution, trafficking of children for sexual abuse and exploitation, child pornography, sexual slavery.
Economic exploitation of a child: the use of the child in work or other activities for the benefit of others. This includes, but is not limited to, child labour. Economic exploitation implies the idea of a certain gain or profit through the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. This material interest has an impact on the economy of a certain unit, be it the State, the community or the family.
Examples: Child domestic work, child soldiers and the recruitment and involvement of children in armed conflict, child bondage, the use of children from criminal activities including the sale and distribution of narcotics, the involvement of children in any harmful or hazardous work.
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Offenders on the Move: Global study on sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism 2016
The first of its kind, this global study on sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism (SECTT) explores emerging trends and possible solutions. Marking the 20 th anniversary of the 1 st World Congress on the Sexual Exploitation of Children, the
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Safeguarding Children From Sexual Exploitation and Abuse in the Context of UN Peacekeeping Operations
The Keeping Children Safe (KCS) coalition is a membership network or organisations working together to increase safeguards offered to children, of which Save the Children is a member.. Although the number of registered complaints of sexual exploitation an
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Stopping Child Sexual Abuse in Bangladesh: Documentation of good practices
This publication is an outcome of the project ”Improving Child Protection and Rehabilitation of Children from Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in Bangladesh (ICPRC)”. The project mainly focused on developing community-based protection mechanisms so that the
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Webcam Child Sex Tourism, Becoming Sweetie: a novel approach to stopping the global rise of Webcam Child Sex Tourism
Terre des Hommes Netherlands embarks on an investigation of a relatively new form of online child sexual exploitation known as “webcam child sex tourism” (WCST). WCST takes place when adults pay or offer other rewards in order to direct and view live stre
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Progress on Implementation of Child Focused UPR Recommendations: A mid-term assessment by stakeholders
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a new United Nations’ human rights mechanism under which the human rights situation of every UN member state is reviewed on a periodic basis. UPR aims to improve the human rights situation of the member states where
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LINEA Inaugural Meeting: Learning initiative on norms, exploitation and abuse
In 2014, the Gender Violence and Health Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine launched a new initiative known as LINEA—the Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse. As part of this initiative, the Centre created the LINE
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Young Invisible Enslaved: 2015 report on children victims of trafficking and labour exploitation in Italy
This is the annual report on trafficking and exploitation of children in Italy. Trafficking and exploitation of children and adolescents is a persistent and ferocious phenomenon that affects mostly migrant children: Nigerian girls are the group most invo
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Sex, Abuse and Childhood: A study about knowledge, attitudes and practices relating to child sexual abuse, including in travel and tourism, in Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Vietnam
This report presents the findings of four separate studies, each undertaken to contribute to Project Childhood Prevention Pillar. An Australian Government initiative, Project Childhood’s main strategy, in combating the sexual abuse of children in the trav
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Working with Men and Boys: A Child Protection Strategy, Report of the ISPCAN Denver Thinking Space 2013
The International Society for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (ISPCAN) organised the ISPCAN Denver Thinking Space 2013 to focus on the neglected issue of preventing child sexual abuse and the commercial sexual exploitation of children through wo
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Unspeakable Crimes Against Children, Policy Brief
This is Save the Children's 2014 Policy Brief on violence, especially sexual violence, against children in conflict-affected countries. Sexual violence can occur against boys and girls, although the latter are more at risk and vulnerable to early or force
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Learning From Children Exposed to Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation: The Bamboo Project study on child resilience
This report presents the findings from an 18 month participatory research project in Nepal from 2012 to 2013. The project looked at what could be learned from the life experience of children, adults, families, and communities, as well as programme practic
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"I've Never Experienced Happiness": Child Marriage in Malawi
With this report, Human Rights Watch investigates child marriage in Malawi. It describes factors contributing to child marriage, the severe consequences of child marriage, the risks that girls face when they resist these marriages, and the abuses they fre