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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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Young Invisible Enslaved: 2015 report on children victims of trafficking and labour exploitation in Italy
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The Global Slavery Index 2013
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Report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography
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Study on trafficking in women, children & adolescents for commercial sexual exploitation in Brazil. National Report
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Working with Men and Boys: A Child Protection Strategy, Report of the ISPCAN Denver Thinking Space 2013
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Unspeakable Crimes Against Children, Policy Brief
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"I've Never Experienced Happiness": Child Marriage in Malawi
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Tráfico de Pessoas em Moçambique, em Particular, de Crianças
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Child Safe Tourism: The Tourist Perspective
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Change starts with us, talk to us! Beneficiary perceptions regarding the effectiveness of measures to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse by humanitarian aid workers: a HAP commissioned study
HAP International is a partnership of aid agencies that work towards improving the quality and accountability of humanitarian aid. This report was commissioned to gain further insight into how beneficiaries of humanitarian aid perceive the effectiveness o
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The sexual abuse, commercial sexual exploitation and trafficking of children in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka Research Report
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Questions & Answers About the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children
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