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Situational Analysis of Children at Risk in Bulgaria
This Situational analysis was realized in the framework of the international project Mario – Joint Action to Protect Children from Exploitation in Europe funded by the OAK Foundation. In 2009, ECPAT Bulgaria published and disseminated the first Situationa
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Street-Working and Street-Living Children in Peru: Conditions and Current Interventions
IREWOC recently completed a research project on street children in Peru. One of the central objectives of the research was to reveal the faces and voices of street children and analyze their various backgrounds, relations to the streets and their percepti
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Bond Free- A Study on Boys Rescued from Bonded Labour
Estimates show that anywhere between 60 to 115 million children are working today in India- children are being trafficked within and across national borders to work in different industries. Many of them face severe forms of physical, psychological and sex
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Foot soldiers and the frontier: Community based organisations against trafficking
This publication provides facts and trends of the cross border child trafficking that takes place between India and Bangladesh, and touches the issue of trafficking/migration of children at well known transit points for victims of trafficking in that area
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No one to turn to: The under-reporting of child sexual exploitation and abuse by aid workers and peacekeepers
Children living in countries affected by conflict and natural disaster are being sexually exploited and abused by the very people hired to help them – aid workers and peacekeepers. Almost as shocking is the general silence surrounding the abuse. Children
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Combating trafficking as modern-day slavery: A matter of rights, freedoms and security
This Annual Report divides in four parts and deals with different aspects of the phenomenon, policies, actions, and challenges deriving from trafficking in women, men, and children for many different exploitative purposes. Part I “Trafficking in Human Bei
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Lost childhoods in Haiti: Quantifying Child Trafficking, Restavèks & Victims of Violence
Nearly a quarter of a million impoverished children – mostly young girls – are forced to work as unpaid domestic servants in major Haitian cities, according to a major survey of Haiti’s human rights. Called restavèks, these very poor children are sent by
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Joint report of the Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography and the Special Representative of the Secretary General on Violence against Children
Report submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council resolution 13/20 entitled “Rights of the child: the fight against sexual violence against children”. It provides an overview of accessible and child-sensitive counseling, complaint and reporting mechanisms
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Building Partnerships on HIV and Sex Work: Report and recommendations from the first Asia and the Pacific Regional Consultation on HIV and Sex Work
This report reflects the voices and opinions of 140 participants, including resource persons and sex workers, at the first Asia and the Pacific Regional Consultation on HIV and Sex Work, held on October 2010 in Pattaya, Thailand. It covers critical compon
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Ça-là, c’est difficile: L’exploitation du travail des enfants en Côte d’Ivoire
Child labour has become an increasingly important survival strategy in Côte d’Ivoire. It increased in the ‘80s because of a severe economic crisis, which further worsened after civil war broke out in the country in 2002. The use of children for labour exp
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Strengthening laws addressing child sexual exploitation.A practical guide
ECPAT International’s work in combating commercial sexual exploitation of children has revealed the need for more guidance on the implementation of international legal standards, more specifically regarding the enactment of laws addressing the different m
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Vulnerability of children living in the red light areas of Kolkata, India. A youth-led study
This youth-led study was conducted in an effort to develop a greater understanding of the realities faced by children living and growing up in the four largest red light areas in Kolkata, India: Kalighat, Bowbazar, Tollygunge, and Khidderpur.The study aim